Long story short: I have a whole box of old flash drives that we used to include with one of our products. The drives had drivers on them required for said product. Anyway, the drivers are now obsolete so I would like to load these flash drives with the updated drivers to give to customers who purchase the new product (so they don't have to download the drivers from the internet).

Anyway, the flash drives are write protected. I tried every way I know to try to format the drives, but nothing works. Is there a way I can remove the write protection from these flash drives so I can use them, or are they pretty much garbage at this point?

Thanks in advance for your help.

1/17/2010 2:16:18 PM

slide the little piece of plastic....

1/17/2010 2:23:02 PM

it doesn't have a little piece of plastic

1/17/2010 2:27:28 PM

find it then

1/17/2010 3:45:05 PM

switch inside the shroud?

1/17/2010 4:23:35 PM

I cracked one open and there is no switch inside either. It might not even be possible, but i figured it was worth a shot.

1/17/2010 4:32:20 PM

Call the device manufacturer and ask them?

1/17/2010 6:44:33 PM

perhaps list the manufacturer/model...

1/17/2010 9:41:42 PM

Well that's the thing. These are all branded with my company logo, and I can't find a manufacturer on them anywhere. Not even on the inside when I cracked one open.

1/18/2010 10:23:08 AM

Check out the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies.

The value 'WriteProtect' should be absent or set to '0'

See if that works

1/19/2010 12:40:57 PM