I have tried literally everything to get it working and literally nothing is getting it out of write protection. I'm starting to get frustrated to be honest, because I honestly don't know why it's doing this and I can't find a single person that has ever had this problem to the extent that I do. I've already tried the following methods to get it out of write protection: *Flipping a switch - there is no switch on my flash drive.

*Formatting the flash drive - I get the 'The disk is write protected.' Error whenever I try this. *Checking the flash drive for errors - I get the 'The disk is write protected.' *Going into my flash drives properties and turning off write protection - write protection does not show up under my *flash drives properties. *Going into regedit, finding my StorageDevicePolicies, and setting WriteProtect to 0 - regedit claims WriteProtect is already set to 0. *cmd prompt: diskpart-> list disk -> select disk 1 -> attributes disk clear readonly - I get the message 'Disk attributes cleared successfully.'

However, nothing happens; I still get the error 'The disk is write protected.' Whenever I try to do anything. *cmd prompt: diskpart -> list disk -> select disk 1 -> clean - 'DiskPart has encountered an error: The media is write protected.' *Using the 'Usb Format.exe' - it can't find my flash drive. *Using HDDGuru to do a low level format - I get a bunch of errors like '1/31/2013 9:37:03 PM Format Error occurred at offset 159,318,016: 19 - The media is write protected'. *Trying to test with H2testw 1.4 - I get 'The media is write protected.

Code 19' *HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool 2.2.3 - I get 'Device Media is write-protected'. I am trying to fix a 16 GB PNY. Drajvera dlya batarei noutbuka acer.

Apr 7, 2018 - One of my favorite USB Flash Drive formatting utilities is the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. It is also bundled as part of the firmware.

The exact model can be found at I know it is the flash drive, because I have a 4 GB SanDisk that works fine and has been working fine for years, but I need this one because it has more space. And I've only had it for like two months and already it's messing up on me. I have tried literally everything to get it working and literally nothing is getting it out of write protection.

I'm starting to get frustrated to be honest, because I honestly don't know why it's doing this and I can't find a single person that has ever had this problem to the extent that I do. I've already tried the following methods to get it out of write protection: **** I am trying to fix a 16 GB PNY.

The exact model can be found at **** I just had this same exact issue with a Patriot drive. I found this article fantasic (however it did not resolve the issue. I was told by many sites you should just return the memory. Then I contacted Patriot and they said that I should use their special tool (located at: to do a low level format.

Of course this means you loose your data, however it recovered the drive back to working condition. The tech said that this tool only works on Patriot drives so you will likely have to contact PNY for their tool(s). I have tried literally everything to get it working and literally nothing is getting it out of write protection. I'm starting to get frustrated to be honest, because I honestly don't know why it's doing this and I can't find a single person that has ever had this problem to the extent that I do. I've already tried the following methods to get it out of write protection: **** I am trying to fix a 16 GB PNY. The exact model can be found at **** I just had this same exact issue with a Patriot drive. I found this article fantasic (however it did not resolve the issue.