My Flash Drive (USB) has been write protected

[Andrew Katta]

I copied information on my Flash drive (USB) from a computer some time ago.
Now I want to use my Flash drive but am unable to delete or copy any information on this drive. Any time I want to delete or copy any information I received a messege that I should remove write protection from flash drive.

Please I want a help to remove this write protection

 

[Nodsu]

Does your flash drive have a switch on it to set it read only?
Did your flash drive come with some software that can make it read-only?

If it's neither of the above, then your thumbdrive has simply gone bad. Going read-only is a common problem with flash drives.

 

[AlbertLionheart]

There was a thread here some months ago about using win98 to repair grumpy flash drives (if that is what is wrong here...)