Just that partition that was being chkdskd. So go into your OS'es Disk Management, delete the partition from the stick and create a new empty one. Does that work?
Kees
I have a problem. I was error-checking my USB flash drive when my computer froze and had to be hard-rebooted. This locked said flash drive into write-protected mode. Everything is still accessable, with the exception of the files it was checking when the computer froze (which I don't care about).
Being that the drive itself is write-protected, I can read and copy off of the drive, but can not change anything or add anything. I can not remove the write-protection. I can not reformat or even disk check it again. Relabeling the drive does not help, nor does trying to change file attributes through command prompt. There is not a switch on the side.
I am using a Corsair Survivor 32GB flash drive. I have tried fixing it on Windows XP and 7.
The drive itself is write-protected, not just the files. All efforts to bypass and/or remove it have failed. I'm content with formatting it and starting over, but it won't let me. Below is what I have tried after the basics in Windows itself failed.
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E:\>chkdsk
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume CORSAIR created 6/15/2010 3:46 PM
Volume Serial Number is D0CF-6530
Windows is verifying files and folders...
Windows found errors on the disk, but will not fix them
because disk checking was run without the /F (fix) parameter.
Removing trailing folder entries from \Sanchez
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
31,310,864 KB total disk space.
117,312 KB in 25 hidden files.
4,128 KB in 255 folders.
17,441,680 KB in 4,156 files.
13,747,728 KB are available.
16,384 bytes in each allocation unit.
1,956,929 total allocation units on disk.
859,233 allocation units available on disk.
E:\>chkdsk/r
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Cannot lock current drive.
Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected.
E:\>chkdsk/f
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Cannot lock current drive.Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected.
E:\>format/x e:
Insert new disk for drive E:
and press ENTER when ready...
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Verifying 30591M
Cannot format. This volume is write protected.
E:\>label e: R
Cannot change label. This volume is write protected.
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I don't have a "transcript," but using the command string "attrib/d /s "e:[anything I used]" -r" and any other variations failed as well. It basically said that it wasn't interested in working with a write-protected directory.
Help?

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