We tested it in Windows 7. This compact tool has an equally compact interface, an efficient little dialog with selections for Device and File system, and an entry field for Volume label, and check boxes for format options, including the ability to create a bootable DOS start-up disk using either internal system files or files at a location you can specify.
Other than Start and Close buttons, that's it, not even a Help file, though this tool is easy enough to figure out without one. We chose to reformat it in NTFS and enable compression. We clicked Start, and a pop-up warned us all data on the drive would be lost. We allowed it to proceed, and it formatted the drive in seconds. Clicking Close called up a small dialog with detailed information about the drive.
We then moved the data back to the newly reformatted drive, ejected it, reinserted it, and verified that everything was in order, including our portable apps. HP's little tool is the USB flash drive tool that could, bringing enhanced power and capability to your Windows system at no cost. We recommend it to anyone who uses flash drives.
The Windows Registry is a database that saves a wide variety of configuration settings, nearly all configuration settings included with Windows. And the writeprotect key can be created, modified and deleted inside it. Double click the writeprotect option and set the value from 1 to 0 from positive to negative in the pop-up window.
Replace g with your USB drive letter. After this, you can try to format the USB drive again. If the write protect error still persists, try the last method, please. This free partition manager can force format write protected USB drive with corrupted file system.
Three steps can make it done. Worth to mention. Besides, it can perform other disk partition management operations like clone partition , clone disk, make a bootable media, move partition, rebuild MBR, merge partitions, convert data disk from MBR to GPT without deleting partitions for Windows 11, etc. Method 1. Check the lock switch Method 2. Clear write protection via CMD Method 3. Reset write protect value in Registry Method 4. Check and fix possible errors Method 5.
Apply free partition manager to force format Method 1. Check the lock switch Some portable drives have a lock switch used to protect the drive in transit. We allowed it to proceed, and it formatted the drive in seconds.
Clicking Close called up a small dialog with detailed information about the drive. We then moved the data back to the newly reformatted drive, ejected it, reinserted it, and verified that everything was in order, including our portable apps.
HP's little tool is the USB flash drive tool that could, bringing enhanced power and capability to your Windows system at no cost. We recommend it to anyone who uses flash drives.
It also allows you to create a DOS startup disk, but this is not very useful with modern versions of Windows. Even though this tool is from , it is still widely recommended by Flash drive manufacturers as the suggested tool to format USB Drives.
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