This just started happening a few minutes ago. I usually run Firefox from my flash drive and recently when I tried to run it a message popped up that said “Cannot Run, USB Drive is Write Protected” or something along those lines. The only thing that I’ve been doing different than normal is copying over Steam game files from another computer because the computer I play them on can’t dowload the games without freezing. Anyone know what happened and how I can fix it?
If you don’t have anything important on it, try formatting the flash drive.
I guess I could move all the stuff and then format it, though I would prefer not to. I’ll do it if there’s no other way.
I tried formatting it and it kept saying that it was write protected. I looked it up and someone suggested to go to the drive from the CMD and it worked. I formatted it to NF… something. Can’t ever remember the acronym. So now I’m copying over all the files which I copied from it.
NTFS
And flash drives seem to have alot of filesystem problems, I had a 8gb flash drive but I guess it committed suicide because now whenever I plug it to the computer it detects it and gives a drive letter but says that there’s no disk in the drive.
Okay, I formatted it to both formats and both times I could copy files to it for around 20 minutes (trying to copy back all the files I copied off of it) but then it would give me the same error. It’s under a warranty so I’ll probably replace it. Right now I’m using another flash drive that I used before though it’s not as large, only 8GB instead of 32GB.
The one that is having the problems is this one, really big and bulky. I got it for a gift though so I didn’t get to pick exactly which one I wanted, and most likely wouldn’t have got this one. It didn’t get all that good reviews either.
Corsair is known for very reliable products, I think your replacement unit will last much longer.