just tried that, still gives write protect error! bit useless!

guess theres no fixing it, just have to see about rma!

thanks for the help anyway

SanDisk Ultra USB3 16GB

No write protect switch on it.


edit: just reading the sandisk website, seems it may be an issue with the drive itself. They say that it can put itself into write...

Hi - I have the same issue.

USB drive recently give me the write protected error.

Tried the partdisk solution and it doesnt work, the drive is showing as:

Current Read-only State : Yes...