Corrupted USB stick

Throw it away. It got corrupted once, a new one costs about £6.00.

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Richard

If it's 'locked', it probably detected a problem and decided to fail read-only. You got the files off it, and that's it's life complete.

Apply a high integrity angle grinder disposal technique if needed.

Theo

Yup!

But dont waste electricity on it, drop it on a rail in front of a train

Use this hardware:

I agree, as I can't think of any data I'd want to store on a dodgy drive.

However, Google provides lots of potential solutions, eg:

or use linux hdparm, but there are a lot of people for whom this did not work. In short there might be a broken adapter if its an SDcard or a borked USB connector - a software inhibit that can be cleared - or a faulty drive.

Life , for £6, is simply too short.

If plugging it in another socket and attempting to clear it in software doesn't work, bin it

Bad Taste Nomination.

Pancho explained :

As much as anything, I would like to work out how/why it is write locked- curiosity.. The cost is not the issue.

If only you had an open coal fire burning...

Have you tried any of these:

Would be interesting to try and delete the partitioning (not just the partitions) and then start again.

Wonder if TNP was out on the GWR yesterday?

I hadn't, but I have now -still locked, so in the bin it goes..

There was some sort of glitch on BT's line. It made my made my main moden inaccessible and a second one likewise - the one with the stick plugged into it. A full reset got both of them back, except it would not allow the wifi key to be set on the main one, so I substituted a spare.

The spare could not be set on my own IP range, so I had to use the IP's it would work with and I am in the process of reconfiguring my whole system to match it - not fun..!

I tried that once, but the USB stick got quite hot for some reason. BT Smart hub, not sure if it was doing some constant accessing of the plug-in stick, so I gave up on that idea. Heat kills memory chips I think.

I must admit Theo's theory, of fail read-only piqued my interest. I had heard of that for a SSD, I don't know if it also occurs in cheap USB drives.

Oh well, please report back if you get to the bottom of it.

Just disassemble the system code. I expect there will be a dead byte somewhere.

ROFLMAO!

Sadly I wasn't.

Perhaps I have Psychic Powers!

Mmm. loooks like it got a big charge of static or a lightning strike. IME any routers/modems connected will exhibit strange faults until they are binned.

I used to have several' struck by lightning, don't work reliably;' netgears till I threw them away.