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| Answer» <html><body><p>I have been using a memory <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/stick-653228" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about STICK">STICK</a> for a while to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/copy-25621" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about COPY">COPY</a> files for offsite storage. Yesterday for whatever reason the stick became write protected which took me by surprise to say the least....I can't seem to locate a procedure to change it back to allowing writes to it. I am logging as a member of<br/>the admin. group. This is on a laptop with Win. XP 7 Pro.<br/><br/>Currently I can't even format the stick....<br/><br/>Anyone have any ideas ?<br/>thanksIf this is a stick that has the write-lock switch to it, check to make sure the write-switch is disabled.<br/><br/>Also this is more common with people trying to repurpose thumb drives that they get at shows and from computer OEM to be used as a normal thumb drive and they are a write-once drive. So if its one of these, there is no easy way to unlock them.<br/><br/>The good thing is that you can still read the data off of this thumb drive and so you may just need to read the data and copy it to a new thumb drive if the drive has failed internally. I'd back up the data off of this thumb drive sooner than later if this is your only copy of the data.If you need the data why would you even consider a format ? ?I have this problem with USB stick. I don't think there is any way to get access to it. I can read what is on it but cant add to the stick or erase anything. I cant find any locking device on it.<br/><br/>I think it is a common problem.<br/> also you cant reformat as the device is locked.<br/>There is no lock switch, its just a very <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/simple-1208262" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SIMPLE">SIMPLE</a> thumb type stick. I've been using it as a backup for specific files over a period of a couple of<br/>years, adding, deleting and updating files as <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/required-1185621" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about REQUIRED">REQUIRED</a>. My question here is related to why the permissions on the stick (its just a portable device<br/>to Windows) would change, what caused Windows to change the permissions. I have not located any procedure to change the permissions at the portable disk level. The disk is formatted as fat32Windows wont just do that on it's own...who else had access to it ? ?No one has access to my laptop. I wasn't implying Windows magically decided to change permissions... I have been copying data to the stick for sometime and I'm guessing during a long running copy something occurred which caused Windows to change the permissions.... What, I have no idea... I've not seen this before... Nor have I...<br/><br/><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/1-236780" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about 1">1</a>. Right click folder, choose properties.<br/>2. Click security tab.<br/>3. Click advanced button.<br/>4. Click owner tab.<br/>5. Click Edit button.<br/>6. Choose the user to change ownership to - and place check mark in check box "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects, then click ok.<br/>7. Click OK.<br/>8. Click OK.<br/> Quote from: patio on April 21, 2014, 06:55:37 PM</p><blockquote>Windows wont just do that on it's own...who else had access to it ? ?<br/></blockquote> <br/>Windows and other operating systems can mark a drive as read-only if errors are detected. This could be because a drive has become defective - the flash memory or memory controller chips, or even a faulty contact on the USB connector or an internal problem. if the data is valuable, copy it all off the drive to somewhere else. You could try formatting it, if it now becomes read-write then maybe you could use it again, but they are so cheap now why bother? I would never trust it again. Throw it away.<br/></body></html> | |