USB Stick Write Protected

kopper

My Integral 4GB USB stick has suddenly become write protected and I have no idea how. I have saved data on it in the past and there is no physical switch on the outside which might cause this.
I tried formatting it as I do not need the data on it but its still failing.
Is there any software I can download to resolve this?

Thanks

Figment

Does your PC have Bitlocker installed by any chance?

sillygoose

Its not a USB stick that holds an SD card is it? the larger cards have a slide switch to write protect.

kopper

No why?
Other Usb memory sticks are fine apart from this one

Figment

There was a recent topic similar to this where the laptop had BitLocker installed causing non-encrypted USB drives to be read only.

kopper

sillygoose wrote: »

Its not a USB stick that holds an SD card is it? the larger cards have a slide switch to write protect.

No this is a normal usb stick

FrugalFriend

One of these downloads might help: http://www.integralmemory.com/downloads

WilliamO

Try this program:

http://www.gohacking.com/downloads/resources/USBWriteProtect.rar

Unzip it with 7Zip for example and then right click on its USBWriteProtect.exe file and RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR.

It has a radio button for Enable and Disable Write Protection.

Alternatively try this:

http://stepblogger.com/tutorial/how-to-remove-write-protected-on-usb-removable-disk-drive-tutorial/

WilliamO