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by royrebenito

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How can i format my usb flash drive when i tried to format it prompted that it was write protected, if it was write protected then how could i remove the write protect and proceed to format, the write protect button was already been move on both directions and tried to foramt but same message appeared,capacity is 256Mbytes.

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by mylittlemansanidiot

Sounds like the lock switch on flash drive might be faulty. If it's a new flash drive, return it to your point of purchase. If not, throw it out and buy another. Flash drives are so cheap now days.

by meridenscrafts

I have never tried this, but I was wondering if you could just select all and delete
Say When you go to save in documents you select
Drive G: then open it up and everything is in there, you have the box open just highlight and delete it.

Have you tried that.
nanse

by mylittlemansanidiot

If it was a file attribute problem (ie. read only), it wouldn't bring up an error message on trying to format the drive. =)

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