Jul 15, 2015 · USB Disk Read-only, cannot format - Turn off write-protection Ask Question Asked 10 years, 5 months ago Modified 6 years, 1 month ago

Sep 1, 2021 · I have an usb flash-drive that is write protected since a system crash. In the dmesg, the device write protection is first off, then it is turned on. Here is the dmesg: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 60566016 …

Nov 12, 2017 · This is very strange, how the disk device became write protected? In order to solve this we perform a full reboot, and now the disk is write/read as it should be.

Oct 12, 2022 · How to change permissions of a write protected drive to repair it? Ask Question Asked 3 years, 2 months ago Modified 3 years, 2 months ago

Jul 19, 2011 · Unless it's write protected with a hardware switch, that shouldn't matter. You will need to be root. I assume that by 'format' you mean to delete all the files and recreate the file system. To do …

Mar 15, 2022 · I have an NTFS USB hard drive containing data that I'd like to protect. What's the best way to achieve this in Ubuntu or Mint?

Dec 3, 2016 · My friend gave me his 4 GB USB flash disk because he can't format or remove or copy anything to it. The drive is empty now. But I can't seem to fix the write-protection problem. Windows …

Apr 2, 2019 · mount: /mnt/data: cannot mount /dev/sdc read-only. The problem might be that the ext4 filesystem on the device needs journal recovery, which is inherently a write operation. You might get …

Apr 3, 2023 · EXT4-fs (sdd2): write access unavailable, cannot proceed (try mounting with noload) Even when mounting with the noload option, the device is still reported as write-protected and mounted …

Oct 14, 2019 · I have a problem like this question How disk became suddenly write protected in spite configuration is read/write? And I used these commands to resolve that umount /dev/sdb1 e2fsck …