How long have you had it for? Some flash chipsets respond to complete wear by,
you guessed it, turning read-only. I wonder if perhaps the disk has had it?
Did it come with software, do you remember? Perhaps you have need of it now,
to "Unprotect" it. Doubt this is the real reason if you've b
Hi,
Sounds like it may be corrupted although, I'm totally familiar with the
complicated methods that venders use to protect storage. On occasion, I've
been able to get past this sort of thing by doing a double-partition process.
I first partition the media with multiple partitions in the form
Hi, I tried both to format and partition my flash-drive and cmd up with the
error in both cases that it can't write to the last block of the drive. I
wonder if it's corrupted or something; Darn, I was hoping I could fix it
somehow. ah well, thanks anyhow; let me know if you have any more
sugges
Some of these drives have write protect switches, you might check and see if it
has that.
On Jun 19, 2014, at 4:22 PM, Helena Fehr wrote:
> Hi! I already tried formatting it; for some reason it won't work, and yes, I
> know it's a FaT32 format, because before this all happened, I was able to us
Hi,
When you go to format it in Disk Utility, make sure that the actual stick is
selected, not the volume. That is, there should be listed something like 32 GB
blah blah and one named whatever the stick is called. You need to select the
32 GB blah blah thing, then attempt the erase disk. If
Hi! I already tried formatting it; for some reason it won't work, and yes, I
know it's a FaT32 format, because before this all happened, I was able to use
the flash-drive on both my Mac and my windows computers.
God Bless!!!
Helena
May the Lord bless y
Are you sure it's Fat32? It might be NTFS which means your Mac can read
it but not write it. If there is nothing on there I'd start by
formatting it as Fat32.
CB
On 6/18/14, 9:51 PM, Helena Fehr wrote:
Hi, all!
I've got a 32 gigabyte flash-drive I'm tyring to use on my Mac, it's
one of those
Hi, all!
I've got a 32 gigabyte flash-drive I'm tyring to use on my Mac, it's one of
those Fat32 format ones, so I cna use it on my windows and on my Mac computers,
but I keep getting an error that it's write protected, and that I should remove
the write protection from teh flash-drive before I
