[SOLVED] USB stuck on Write Protection

[IgnorantSwine335]

Hello, I have a USB that randomly started saying it was write protected one day. I've tried different methods to remove it (diskpart, formatting, registry edit, the sharing thing, manually changing files to not read-only, scan for viruses) but none of them worked. I also tried the usb on 2 different computers and multiple ports.

Here is something weird I saw on diskpart:

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

What is make/model of USB key?

 

[hang-the-9]

If doing a disk wipe with diskpart and testing on several systems did not work, the disk is bad.

 

[IgnorantSwine335]

What is make/model of USB key?

sdcz48-128g. Sandisk 128gb usb 3.0

 

[IgnorantSwine335]

If doing a disk wipe with diskpart and testing on several systems did not work, the disk is bad.

All I did on diskpart was try to clear the attributes. What is the command for a wipe?

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

This might sound a bit silly, but some USB keys/discs have a little switch embedded in the casing for write protection, does yours?

 

[hang-the-9]

All I did on diskpart was try to clear the attributes. What is the command for a wipe?

Select the disk then do a "clean" command. That will delete (or try to) any partitions on the drive. Then you can use disk management to create a new partition. But also check the switch as above, some drives do have a manual switch for read only.

Often failed flash drives give the message about being write protected but it's actually a bad drive in general.

 

[IgnorantSwine335]

This might sound a bit silly, but some USB keys/discs have a little switch embedded in the casing for write protection, does yours?

Select the disk then do a "clean" command. That will delete (or try to) any partitions on the drive. Then you can use disk management to create a new partition. But also check the switch as above, some drives do have a manual switch for read only.

Often failed flash drives give the message about being write protected but it's actually a bad drive in general.

I didn't see a switch anywhere.

I tried clean and it said: "Diskpart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. See the System event Log for more information."

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Then, as @hang-the-9 has suggested, it may be a faulty disc. Is it covered under any warranty? If so, get a replacement.

 

[IgnorantSwine335]

I dunno if it has a warranty. But thank you two for your help though