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How to Format Write Protected USB Disk Drive and SD Card

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...

Pen Drive Detected but Not Shown in My Computer Problem Fixed

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...

How to Test USB Flash Drive Read & Write Speed

Every flash drive manufacturer's advertising their product with a cheap price tag and e-commerce sites promote them with an additional discount as an offer, which force people to buy even when it's not necessary. Regardless of its speed, brand and reliability, user's rush to buy it just for the capacity of storage that it holds. What most of the user's not aware of these devices with a cheap price tag is that its specification (i.e. read & write) capacity, despite the USB flash drives were identical with other USB flash drives of same capacity which are slightly expensive. But they come with a relatively different speed, which makes them a bit expensive among its rivals with less speed. Top 3 Best Benchmark Tools  to Check USB flash Drive Speed  If you have planned to buy a USB flash drive (or) just bought one already, Besides its storage capacity have you ever checked how fast is your flash drives and how much of data it can transfer at a particular time in...

Windows Was Unable to Complete the Format Error - USB Drive Solution

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...

Remove Shortcut Virus From Flash Drives Without Formatting

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...

How To Use USB Drive As RAM to Increase Computer Speed

Note: Users running a 32bit system with 4GB Ram are advised to skip this article because 4GB is the maximum limit for a 32bit system. However, 64-bit system users can extend physical memory usage up to 512GB in Windows 8 and 192 GB in windows 7. Often your computer responds very slow after some hours of usage, it is due to overwhelming data that's being stored in your RAM since RAM is a temporary storage device it gets back to normal state after a restart, by removing entire data's that were currently stored temporarily in physical memory. USB devise as a RAM But there are several applications that require a minimum of 2GB of RAM to run, so users with low RAM capacity opt for buying an additional RAM. To avoid this you can use USB flash drive as RAM to boost your computer performance. How to Convert USB flash drive into RAM USB drives don't replicate the actual performance of the RAM(physical memory), it'll just boost the performance by increasing the t...