Not able to Format iBall USB Drive

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Dear All,

I have been trying to format one of my iBall Cordial 8GB pen drive but when i do that it says the disk is write protected.
1) I tried the registry settings as well as low level formatting.
Do you have any idea how can i proceed with it or do i dump it.
There are few folders which has garbage names. Please check the attachment
View attachment 11824

Thanks & Regards
Pratik V

Try formatting in Linux.

yeah..i had this problem too..I downloaded some linux OS ( 100mb in size ) & tried formatting in it..works perfectly fine now.

Tried with Ubuntu 11 but didnt worked out. Is there any other alternative if not ill just scrap this drive then