I used an .iso to make my Kingston DT bootable, but in doing so it also made it write-protected. I used it satisfactorily in that state for several months, but when I wanted to reformat it with a new .iso, unfortunately all my attempts to do this failed.
I more or less wrote that Kingston off as an unfortunate hardware failure, and made a new NX216 8GB stick bootable with my next .iso. Again it worked OK until I came to the point where I wanted to change to a new .iso. Reformatting failed on this one too, which is when I realised my previous Kingston failure must be due to a similar symptom.
Neither my Kingston nor my NX216 have usable partitions and attempts to write a new MBR fail which I guess is because they are being thwarted by write protection. Have tried low-level formatting from command prompt, and regedit change to set StorageDevicePolicies to "0".
Any other suggestions?
I more or less wrote that Kingston off as an unfortunate hardware failure, and made a new NX216 8GB stick bootable with my next .iso. Again it worked OK until I came to the point where I wanted to change to a new .iso. Reformatting failed on this one too, which is when I realised my previous Kingston failure must be due to a similar symptom.
Neither my Kingston nor my NX216 have usable partitions and attempts to write a new MBR fail which I guess is because they are being thwarted by write protection. Have tried low-level formatting from command prompt, and regedit change to set StorageDevicePolicies to "0".
Any other suggestions?