I have a Dane 8G flash drive with less than 1G of stored data, yet an error mess

[Burt3658]

I have a Dane 8G flash drive with less than 1G of stored data, yet an error message always says the drive is "write protected" and I can neither add data nor change any already on the drive. How can I remove "write protected" from the flash?

 

[nhasian]

USB Flash Drive 101

refer to the section titled:

"My USB Flash device is write protected

How to remove a write protection from your USB memory Stick if there is no Write protection ON or OFF button or tab: "