Peripherals Wtf?.. Write protected

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How do you remove write protect on a memory stick?

Done the usual stuff but to no avail it still won,t let me do anything

It's a Lexar 32gb
 
From Google

Check the bottom end and sides of the drive to see if it has a write protection switch. Push the plastic switch into the "Unlock" position.


Still no luck?

Insert the memory stick into the computer
Go to My Computer and under Devices with Removable Storage look for your card reader
Right-click on it and click Properties
In the pop-up box, sometimes there's an option to Remove write-protection. Change the status of this option and try again.

Still no luck?

Remove your memory stick from the drive
Click Start > Run...
In the box type regedit and press OK
A new window will appear. Go to:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
If you can't locate StorageDevicePolicies then you will need to create this folder
Right-click on Control and click on New > Key. Name this StorageDevicePolicies
Right-click on the new folder you created called StorageDevicePolicies and click New > DWORD Value.
Name this WriteProtect
Double-click on Write Protect and change the Value Data to 0 and then click OK
Close the Registry Editor and insert the memory stick into your computer
 
Can you format it ? if so use FAT32 and try that,if not it sounds like a broken stick mate.
 
might be going faulty, sometimes get that message when they're on the road out..
 
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Does sound like it is,but there is a couple of Similar Threads at the bottom of this page regarding the same problem,check them out mate.
 
Just curious do you have it long? I have bought some off places and they come saying 32gb and only have 8gb or so of actual space and when you start pushing the limits on the 8gb strange things start to happen with the drive.

Mostly chinese sites just sell fake sticks they are normally a bit cheaper then other places but might not be a lot cheaper so as to set off alarm bells.
 
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I have had same issues with external drives I had to sort it out using CMD..
and then needed disk management to reformat to NFTS but even with that done HP formatting tool still would not could not format drives to fat32...gave up in the end and left formatted to NFTS.
 
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