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Flash Drive issue

boomerang

boomerang

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It's lunch at work right now and I don't have the drive with me, but I threw one of these in with an order for some other things and it arrived yesterday.

I plugged it in, it was recognized and I tried to copy a large folder to it just to see how fast it would do it. I immediately started getting prompts that files were read only, asking If I wanted to try again. I'm in Vista64 BTW.

Confused, I went ahead and told it to try again numerous times, all the while scratching my head wondering what was going on. I cancelled the transfer after a bit (it wasn't working anyway) and now I have a bunch of files on the drive that I cannot delete. I don't even have the option with a right click. Selecting them all and hitting the Delete key is ignored. Every way I've tried is fruitless.

I decided to format the drive and I am unable to do so. I get a message that the drive is write-protected. No, there is no means to do that with this unit.

WTH?

 
Have you tried changing the file attributes?

Using explorer, right click on the file and select PROPERTIES. Then at the bottom, are attribute check boxes. If READ ONLY is checked, uncheck it.

It is possible that you may have to do that as Administrator.

What was the source of the large file folder you tried to copy?
 
Edited: Because I did not recall the details correctly. Also, somewhere during all this I enabled readyboost on the drive. See my last comments.

Have you tried changing the file attributes?
Yes, I have and I can't. See answer below.

Using explorer, right click on the file and select PROPERTIES. Then at the bottom, are attribute check boxes. If READ ONLY is checked, uncheck it.
The only attribute checked is Archive. I can't change it as I get a message that the media is write protected.

It is possible that you may have to do that as Administrator.
I am an administrator, but the question is I guess, am I THE administrator?

What was the source of the large file folder you tried to copy?
A folder on my D: drive. A drive physically residing in my computer.

Now, when I first install the drive, I see this screen. Either choice gives me a dialog box saying the disk is write protected.

Now this is kind of cool, although it's a dead end. If in My Computer, I right click the drive and choose "Open as Portable Device", I see the drive as an icon, I can double click on it and I then can right click and have an option to delete the folder. It goes through the motions of deleting the files and when it's all done, ta-daaaa .. they're still there. As is the folder. For clarity, I ask to delete the folder, it acts like it's deleting the files, but everything is still there.

I'm likin' this. 😕

I think it's a readyboost issue. I think readyboost has a lock on the drive. It thinks the files on it are in use and will not allow them to be deleted. Any guidance on a registry setting? As I mentioned Vista64.

Bah. It performs the same when plugged into XP. There's something up with the drive itself.
 
Nuke it with a format. Preferably with a different file system. AFAIK my U3 files would do this before I formatted to FAT32.
 
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
According to the Patriot flash support website there may be a security partition on the drive although it is unclear if the drive ships with it.
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Yeah, I saw that. There's also a utility to interface with it that won't run in Vista. I ran it from XP and get the same results. No matter what I try to do, the end result is a write protected message.

I have to decide if I want to pay to RMA it, or toss it in the trash and get a replacement.
 
Originally posted by: boomerang
I have to decide if I want to pay to RMA it, or toss it in the trash and get a replacement.
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I might be tempted to do both. If I replaced it, it would be a different brand for sure. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: corkyg
Originally posted by: boomerang
I have to decide if I want to pay to RMA it, or toss it in the trash and get a replacement.
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I might be tempted to do both. If I replaced it, it would be a different brand for sure. 🙂
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What would you get? I don't follow these things. I had wanted one with more capacity and it was an impulse purchase. 4 to 8GB range.
 
One of the comments on Newegg says he got the write protected error after 2 weeks. He also says that with no switch on the drive there is nothing you can do. If that's true the only thing to do now is call patriot or Newegg.

The flash support site shown above has a security program that may be used to change the security partition to 0 bytes if that is the problem.


Jim
 
Originally posted by: boomerang
[QWhat would you get? I don't follow these things. I had wanted one with more capacity and it was an impulse purchase. 4 to 8GB range.
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Right now, I would probably go with this one . . .

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