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Unable to format kingston pen drive
I am unable to format the 8 gb kingston pen drive. Error is disk is write protected. I have tried the command prmpt clear atrributes read only etc. I have also used kingston format utility still everything failed to complete. File system is FAT32. i am using window 8.
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Hello there is no switch it is a simple 8 gb plug and play usb pen drive of kingston company. I have already tried registry option cannot find out the storage policies in my windows 8.1 OS. I have one more laptop but it has windows 8 non genuine OS.
Execute in cmd the following (as administrator):
1. diskpart
2. list disk (dis will show the active disks)
3. select disk3 (this as example you will us the number that indicates the USB pendrive)
4.attributes disk clear readonly
Did you test HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool 2.2.3 or Swissknife?
1. diskpart
2. list disk (dis will show the active disks)
3. select disk3 (this as example you will us the number that indicates the USB pendrive)
4.attributes disk clear readonly
Did you test HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool 2.2.3 or Swissknife?
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Davy I have mentioned in starting that have tried these attempts of attribute clear, the HP and Swiss Knife are not for 8.1 windows OS.
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Is there a partition on the pen drive to which you can copy files and read them?
It could be that the pen drive itself is bad and Windows formatting tool is reporting the wrong error as it does not get to partition structure of the drive.
Try to wipe the pen drive using DBAN.
It could be that the pen drive itself is bad and Windows formatting tool is reporting the wrong error as it does not get to partition structure of the drive.
Try to wipe the pen drive using DBAN.
Thats symptom sometime mean that USB drive has malfunction. Twice I bought a new USB flash drive and could not use all of it's capacity, let's sey I could use only 1GB, after that I would receive message, disk is write protected.
After you try recommendations you already got, try to make a quick format, if that goes well, almost certainly your USB drive is bad.
Try to format your USB drive on some other computer to eliminate Windows error.
After you try recommendations you already got, try to make a quick format, if that goes well, almost certainly your USB drive is bad.
Try to format your USB drive on some other computer to eliminate Windows error.
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Nothing goes well have tried everything; there are no partitions, earlier the drive was good past a year.
No partitions?
Is drive exists in disk manager
cmd
diskmgmt.msc
should be there as disk 1, 2, 3 or similar
Is drive exists in disk manager
cmd
diskmgmt.msc
should be there as disk 1, 2, 3 or similar
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Yes it is Disk 1 when i was doing command prompt remove of attribute, i used to select disk 1 showing 7xxx mb of the data. I meant i did not create any partitions inside pen drive or usb drive.
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so no solution is there i have already done in starting all the troubleshootings; even i can post answer:-
No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient
free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify
different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the
maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using the MBR di
sk
partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions, (no
more partitions may be created), or 3 primary partitions and one extended
partition, (only logical drives may be created).
No usable free extent could be found. It may be that there is insufficient
free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify
different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the
maximum sized partition. It may be that the disk is partitioned using the MBR di
sk
partitioning format and the disk contains either 4 primary partitions, (no
more partitions may be created), or 3 primary partitions and one extended
partition, (only logical drives may be created).
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issue is not resolved
Follow the instructions in the PDF file I've attached.
USB-Flash-Drive---Remove-Write-Protectio