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Croma 8GB pen drive showing write protected while formating

8 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/croma-8gb-pen-drive-showing-write-protected-while-formating.163964/

Jitendra Singh
Jitendra Singh Original post #1
Sep 28, 2012 at 10:44 AM
I had bought a 8GB pen drive from Croma retail around 2 months ago. Yesterday I tried to format it, the message was ' The disk is write protected '. While there is no any button/switch like SD card adapters.
F
Oct 9, 2012 at 10:27 AM
hi there bro download and install any disk management software and run deep format on your pendrive this method works for my friend hope it will help you too.
M
Minion #3
Oct 15, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Scan with good updated AV then try to format it.
F
Oct 18, 2012 at 11:16 AM
hi bro what i heard is write protected pen drive cant formated from dos may be i am wrong.
topgear
topgear #5
Oct 19, 2012 at 3:42 AM
@ OP - try to format the pen drive using another pc just to be sure that the PD is OK.
doomgiver
Oct 19, 2012 at 5:44 AM
Linux, load a bootable CD and format it from there.
sayan8
sayan8 #8
Oct 19, 2012 at 8:55 AM
hello .
just dload hp usb formstter and format it with ntfs...