Windows 10: My USB stick is now locked

My USB was fine last night was fine. I transferring some pdfs from a USB HDD to my new micro SD Card which was fine until some wouldn't transfer over so I simply transferred them to the stick then dongle them on the card via the Tablet that the Micro is used in all fine. Then I don't remember if I unmounted the USB stick or not the next set that didn't transfer came to a file that said the USB stick was now write protected. I took it out inserted it again same deal. But a message came saying it needed be repaired tried that and came again with the write projected message. I backed the files u

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Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk

 

USB stick previously used as a boot stick for Killdisk not recognized

Try method 2 under Windows 7 8 10 here:
Free to Remove Readonly Attribute in Windows

Method 2: Clear readonly status with Diskpart

In Windows 10, 8, 7 OS, you are also able to run Diskpart in Command Prompt to clear read-only attribute on any partition on your computer. You can follow the tutorial below:

Step 1. Open Command Line and type Diskpart
Step 2. Type list disk
Step 3. Type select disk (disk number)
Step 4. Type attributes disk clear readonly





Then try Clean

 

USB Stick Locking Security Software?

Hi,

I have a USB stick with all my private/work data on it and I need some software to lock it down so if I lose it no-one can access it.

TrueCrypt is no good as i use the USB stick on different PC's.

Basically when I plug it into a machine it needs to ask for a password before you can view the data on it....

Is there anything out there that can do this?

Thanks in advance *Smile