Hi, Thank you for showing your interest in HP Support Forums. It is a great place to find the help you need, from other users, HP experts, and other support personnel. For you to have the best experience on the HP forum, you could also visit our HP Forums Guide for the. I understand that your USB drive is write protected. Don't worry as I have a few steps to help you get through this concern, To provide you with an accurate solution, I'll need a few more details: Have you checked with a different USB drive and does it work your PC? Have you tried running command prompt as an administrator? Or if you have another PC please connect the flash drive and try the commands again.

Please try few steps recommended below. Open the command prompt and type the following commands below. DISKPART LIST DISK SELECT DISK 1 (If the flash drive is listed as disk 1) ATTRIBUTES DISK ATTRIBUTES DISK CLEAR READONLY If the issue still persists try the steps mentioned below. Click on your Start Menu and type regedit into the Search for programs and files field Navigate to- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control StorageDevicePolicies and look for a key named WriteProtect. If that key exists, right-click on it and click on Modify.

Bought 4 PNY 16GB USB thumb drives and every time I try to format them, the. Motherboard: X99A-II. I have only had this once and Patriot emailed me a low level formatting tool not available on the Net to fix it, I thought Ufix was the same type. Format any corrupted USB pendrive that have format errors.Download USB Disk Storage Format Tool 5.0 and reformat your flash drive in one step.Try it now USB Disk Storage Format Tool V5.0 software USB Disk Storage Format Tool V5.0 is a free USB flash disk format utility designed by authorsoft Website.

Now, you’ll probably find that the value for this is set to 1. 1 means “Yes, write protect my USB storage device.” So you can guess that 0 means “No, don’t write protect my USB storage device.” Now change that value to 0 and click on the OK button. Here's a related HP Forum post which has helped others to resolve the issue, please try to follow this document: Alternatively, you can try these steps as well: This is a common error with those HP pen drives which are manufactured by PNY. Download USB Flash Driver Format Tool (Ufix-II): Once downloaded, right-click on that file and choose to Extract All. NOTE: If Extract All is not available, you can use 7-Zip to extract the file. It is a free download.

NOTE 2: Make sure the HP pen drive inserted in the computer before running the fix. Open the new folder and double-click on Ufix II.exe to run it. NOTE: if Ufix II does not fix the problem, go back and try Ufix III. Let me know if those steps worked for you. If they did, that’s awesome! Give us some reinforcement by clicking the solution and kudos buttons, That’ll help us and others see that we’ve got the answers!

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