USB FLASHDRIVE Protection issue

FatRakoon

FatRakoon

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I got a USB FlashDrive and I used it quickly to plop a Windows ISO onto it to test if itis any good for booting with, but now it wont let me write or delete anything?

Its now being seen as a CDROM. I suppose that was the idea yeah, but I cannot change it back now?

I have had a look on the web for various things and I have gone through a number of different tricks, and hacks, but nothing has helped at all.

Similarly I have tried a few Dsik partitioning apps but they dont let me delete the info either?

Anyone have any ideas?

Irritatingly, its a 128GB Kingston drive and its bran-noo!
 
Wipe out the MBR. First 512 bytes or so.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/your-drive bs=512 count=1

It's now "new", and can be partitioned however you like :)
 
Hmm... I tried it, but all I got was

dd: writing '/dev'sdc1': Operation not permitted
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.00094536 s, 0.0 kB/s

The USB Flash drive, obviously mounted as sdc1

its mounted in /media/damion/cockface and so I tried that too, but it returned that its a directory so, thats not helping, btu yeah I know about the name... Thats what I called it, so haha i know. LOL

Any other ideas?
 
It did recognise it, but all I kept getting was write fails? Do you want the a copy of a log?
I think I will just send it to Kingston to be honest... Obviously its under warranty.
I will ask them if they haev a tool first... See if they can help that way?
Im such an idiot sometimes, but then I have burned tons of ISO images to USB before, why did this one do this?
 
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