Category: Geeks r Us
Ok, so I bought my 8 gig flash card and it came with 2 partitions. I don't want these partitions I just want one open partition. So I try deleting them with partition magic, all I see is disk1, local disk C, and *** unallocated space. So thinking the disk1 was my flash card I unplugged it and waited to see if that was the issue. But when I reopened partition magic, I found that it was still there. So then I tried right clicking on the drive in my computer (I have removable disk f and removable disk g) I right clicked G and clicked format. Well then it decides to tell me that it is write protected. how in the hell does this happen. There are no switches on the thing and I have no idea how to get rid of it. Any ideas/help.
what company is it from. if's U3, your screwed.
if its U3, just uninstall the launchpad. Problem fixed rat.
Sounds like it's U3 to me. There's a utility on the website that will uninstall the launchpad and reformat it. After that, it will behave like any other flash drive.
don't use the one from the U3 site. It does not work. If u google it, and go down a few headings, theres a different program. Plug the drive into the computer, and run the .exe file that u download. I have tried the program from the U3 site on two different computers, and they both crash, and restart. If I can find the site again, I'll let u know.
That's weird, and I'm not sure how to fix that problem. Sorry.
I saw there was a small sliding button with a flash drive at the bottom of it. try searching for that, you see.
all of you are wrong. it is not u3. has nothing to do with u3. there are just 2 partitions simple as that. I've tried partition magic nothing works. any help other than u3?
What about the Linux thing you got to work last time, for your other flash drive, could that work this time, also?
umm, use dos
diskpart
@10 yeah go for it
But if you dont wanna learn the syntax for discpart go
control > admin tools > computer management > storage > disk management
Deleet one of the partitions so all you have is unalicated, make a new one and let it do a full format.
I have to say though that when drives start not formatting I try a low level format and if that doesn't work then I usually say good by. Had a old 340mb one show up as 2tb today - got all my stuff off it first though.