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The main intention to append the write protection switches in USB flash drives and SD cards is to prevent accidental file deletion and to avoid suspicious files such as malware/trojan etc. from unauthorized sources delivering/storing into the USB disk. If the USB disk is in read-only mode, any attempts to create (or) edit file into the USB disk will be denied, But when you really want to make changes in the USB disk to add some more information (or) to edit the information that is already present in it, the restriction that you added on your computer initially will now prevent you from making changes such as adding new files or deleting existing files from any USB disk drive plugged into it. However, you can still read the files available in it, but you'll not be allowed to make changes and format the disk. The disk is write-protected -  You cannot format Having a flash drive/ SD card which is not completely accessible even by the owner of that device, is like having a l...

Did you know! Around 60% of removable media devices such as USB flash drives and Pen drives were dumped for software errors, thinking it does not work any longer, which requires only a simple troubleshoot, in some rare cases even new devices were also kept idle (or) dumped else return back to retailer reporting as a faulty device. And one common issue to dump/destroy the removable media disk is "Drives detected but not listed on my computer", for accessing files and folders in it. This could occur due to the accidental removal of device drive letter from the system volume (or) failure of the Operating System to name and partition the drive volume at the time of installing the device driver files. The drive letter is the name of the drives (system volume) which is used as an address by the operating system to access the drive , so removing the identity of the driver will probably remove it from my computer list. Read Also: How to increase computer speed with pendrive b...

Virus attack and physical damage are most common in portable devices like micro SD cards and pen drives, which corrupts the data on the device and make it hardly impossible to retrieve the original data back, nevertheless, we lost the data's but not the device, once we perform a format option on the damaged device since then it will let us at least to use the device. But the next problem arises here is that when you try to format the damaged device it's quite shocking to see an error message popping out of the screen "Windows was unable to complete the format". So what is the next thing that you could do, you lost the data but had a hope to recover the USB flash drives at least, but the error message makes it even worse. Hence I came here with a solution to format the USB flash drive completely, follow the simple steps. Read Also: How to remove shortcut virus from USB flash drives/Pen drives How to Format USB Flash Drive, When Windows Unable to Complete the F...

Here in this tutorial, I will explain to you how to remove the shortcut link viruses from your flash drives like pen drives/memory cards, etc,  without formatting the whole disk drive or by using any antiviruses that remove or quarantine the file folders along with the virus. If you find your USB disk files and folders were cloned into shortcuts and reappear even after deleting several numbers of times, Yes your device is infected with Virus, but don't get panic and Format the entire pen drive/flash drive to remove such viruses, your files/folders were not Gone or Corrupted it's just hidden into drive. Read Also: Free data recovery tools for flash drives and hard disk To view the hidden files and folders in the disk: Press " Windows + E"   keys on the keyboard to open the "File Explorer" window (or) directly type File Explorer in Windows Search and Tap on "Enter Key" to open "File Explorer".  In "File Explorer" win...