Mr. Fred, maybe using one of the so called "live-distros", e.g. knoppix.org,
would help?
The util Gparted will tell u which properties the drive has, including write
protection. Enable/disable is then just a flag away.
HTH.
FORC5 wrote:
Have a flash drive my son got at ASU, has the school manual on it. Copied that
off. Can not use the drive because it is write protected.
There is no switch on the unit
Diskpart does not see it. have nothing with fdisk on it anymore (do not think
anyway)
drive management will not let me delete the partition.
Partition magic (8) does not see it.
pretty sure done with sw, anybody have a clue.
This will move me up a step on the daddo ladder :-D , son is a Computer
Engineer student ( freshman)
thanks
still looking
fp