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USB Pen drive wont let me write to it

Mar 9, 2006 7:04PM PST

Ever had this? " Disk is write protected. Remove Write protection or use another disk"?

I have two "Pendragons", combi pen drive & wireless tranceivers, by www.torspoal.com. Quite cool really as they convert my old Laptops into wireless capable machines plus also they are my 128Mb pendrives.

One still works fine but have been getting above message on the other. Have used the U-Storage utility that came with the Pendragon to Format the drive. It has wiped the drive clean but I still can't add data to it and still get the above message. Have tried HP's USB storage Utility - no joy there. Have gone into Control Panel, Admin tools Computer Management, disk management, & whilst it says the drive is healthy fails to format it as it says the disk is write protected.

Where do I go next, am loath to just bin it or is it a write off? There is NO SWITCH on the side for write protection! Torspoal are puzzled.

Regards Brassman

PS Am running winxp sp2 on all machines the symptoms are across all machines and main desktop is a Packard Bell ixtreme P4 Thanks

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Yup.
Mar 9, 2006 11:01PM PST

It's a common sign of failure. Try a new device. What happens?

There were a few devices that used a software write protect. But such would be mentioned in the device's manual so for you, that would be easy to solve.

Bob

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May 23, 2006 4:22PM PDT

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