I had a 32Gb USB stick plugged into my router, but it was somehow corrupted. I have managed to lift all the files off, with the intention of reformatting it, but it will not allow either quick or full format = it complains that the stick is locked.
There is no lock on the actual stick, so how can I unlock it please?
Throw it away. It got corrupted once, a new one costs about £6.00.
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.
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