Unable to Remove Write Protection from Pen Drive
I Have Scandisk 16Gb Pendrive Which Accidentally Got Write Protected(S/W as There Is No Hardware Write Protection Feature Availiable). I Have Tried Sudo Hdparm...
I have scandisk 16GB pendrive which accidentally got write protected(s/w as there is no hardware write protection feature availiable).
I have tried sudo hdparm -r0 /dev/sdb1 still it is write protected.
What other ways availiable to remove the write protection?
1 Answer
Try this answer by Angel Genchev: USB turn write protection off
To turn off disk device`s write protect, we use the low level system utility hdparm like this:
sudo hdparm -r0 /dev/sdbwhere we asume that /dev/sdb is the Physical disk device we're working on. If the device has partitions that are mounted as read-only, you should re-mount 'em as read-write in order to write data to them.
Hope that helps.
You should run sudo hdparm -r0 /dev/sdb rather than sudo hdparm -r0 /dev/sdb1. So run your command but without the 1 at the end. You specify the device itself as a whole and not the partition number.
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