Usb pen drive

valerian · 19 May 2010 at 10:36

bought a 16gig one of these at xmas from ocuk,
now stuck in write protected mode, wont format,
ive googled and found no regedit solution for win 7
any answers?

ps no switch on it to write protect

Philtor · 19 May 2010 at 10:45

Download 'HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool' and try using this instead.

valerian · 19 May 2010 at 10:49

just done that mate, it says write protected, so no joy

Philtor · 19 May 2010 at 10:52

I would try formatting on another PC then and if it still fails then it must be an issue with the flash chips on the USB pen so I would seek to RMA it.

valerian · 19 May 2010 at 23:36

OCuk have give me an RMA