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how to remove write protection form jumpdrive

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by mdaley

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i need to remove write protection from my jumpdrive... it never happen until someone borrowed it and rerurned it...cannot do any editn' to the documents i saved in there, even tranfern' file from jumpdrive to the pc....

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by boxfiddler Hot topic

with your drive plugged in, open Windows Explorer. In the left-hand pane cruise to the drive letter that is your jump drive. Right-click on it, select properties, select sharing, then share it. Click on "If you understand the risk...." (providing you are using WinXP, that is).

by mdaley

ok, i did as you said, but this message keeps poping up, " The disk cannot be written to because it is write protected. Please remove the write protection from the volume LEXAR MEDIA in drive\Device\Harddisk1\DR6.

by mdaley

my jumpdrive don't have that small tiny swith on it too... help out here plzzzzzzzzz...thanx...

by boxfiddler Hot topic

If so, you probably need to run through that software to see what it is and what settings you can change.

If the answer is no, you can try removing the read-only attribute folder by folder, then after all the folders have been changed try the drive again as in my earlier post.

If that doesn't work and no one else has a better suggestion, you might try formatting it - after having tried to copy your files and folders to another location. Don't try to move them, just copy them. Sometimes you can copy things you can't move. Make sure you format it FAT32, as not everything can write to NTFS.

I'd certainly talk with whoever you lent this to in order to find out what he/she may have done!

by 1bn0

Along the edge where the two pieces join. You may need a very small pointed object to actually move the switch.

by nicosuave969

Make sure the "Hold" setting, or button is disabled on the device. I was unable to delete files, and was recieving the same "write protected" message, and was unable to format the drive. When I turned "Hold" off, I was able to delete the files no problem. Hope this helps.

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