Security and privacy are a growing concern for computer users. Knowing that we use our computers for all manner of personal business from accounting to keeping private documents data thieves will sometimes scour old second hand or discarded drives for data. Formatting won?t always do the trick and with these concerns in mind not to mention general maintenance tasks software like HDD Low Level Format Tool has been developed to perform a more thorough cleanse. There?s even a free trial mode on offer. 6 Security and privacy are a growing concern for computer users.
When an USB flash drive goes wrong in a way that you could not format or access it with your window explorer, you have to recover it with low level format tool.
Knowing that we use our computers for all manner of personal business from accounting to keeping private documents data thieves will sometimes scour old second hand or discarded drives for data. Formatting won?t always do the trick and with these concerns in mind not to mention general maintenance tasks software like HDD Low Level Format Tool has been developed to perform a more thorough cleanse. There?s even a free trial mode on offer.
Reset Your Drive to Zero HDD Low Level Format Tool performs a low-level format meaning that it not only deletes information but effectively physically resets the drive leaving it with empty platters. This makes it very hard indeed for data to be recovered. This is a tool for use on older drives so while it may not be useful to users of modern equipment it could make old computers safe for re-use or sale.
This software supports all the major interfaces like SATA USB and IDE as well as almost all manufacturers. The software also support flash cards useful if you transfer private data often. Old School Tool HDD Low Level Format Tool is very powerful and will certainly wipe drives but may not be suitable for newer models. It?s probably of most use to computer repair shops and recyclers. The free trial is limited at 50mb/s speed but you can buy a very cheap license for more.
HDD Low Level Format Tool supports the following formats Unidades: S-ATA (SATA), IDE (E-IDE), SCSI, USB y FIREWIRE Discos duros de la marca: Maxtor, Hitachi, Seagate, Samsung, Toshiba, Fujitsu, IBM, Quantum y Western Digital.
Make sure the write-protection latch of your drive (if it has any) is turned off. If you are using an updated antivirus, try scanning the drive for viruses. Solutions There are many solutions to this problem and actually every one of them may have worked for some users but may not work for you. Hence I’m trying to enlist all the feasible solutions, so if one doesn’t work, try the other one. Fixing Registry.
Press Winkey + R (or just open the Run from Start menu). Type regedit and hit enter. Go to HKEYLOCALMACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control StorageDevicePolicies NOTE: If this is not there, you may need to add this entry. For that download the batch file add.bat from, and double-click the file. The entry will be added to registry. Now in the right pane double-click the key WriteProtect. Now set the Value Data to 0 (zero) and press OK.
Exit Registry and restart your PC. Now try using your USB Drive. Using Formatting Utility As the solution suggests we will be formatting the USB drive, so backup all the items in the drive first before carrying out htis step. Unzip the pack to a folder. Now double-click the Start.bat file in that folder. This will initiate the formatting.
Wait until the formatting completes or the LED of the drive stops blinking. If you fail once give it few more try. Now remove the pen-drive and plug it in to the PC again.
Now, open RUN and type cmd and hit Enter. Now in the command prompt, type CHKDSK usb-drive-letter: /F. You are done. Trying a low-level format This is yet another solution which will try to solve the problem by using a low-level format. Don’t forget to backup your drive items. Now using it, perform a low-level format of your USB drive.
If you fail once give it few more try. Now open RUN and type diskmgmt.msc, hit Enter.
Now right-click the USB Drive and press Format. Now do as shown in the screenshot below. Then press OK. For Transcend USB Drive Users. Transcend has its own Recovery Tool to get rid of this error. Enter your Model No.
Of your USB Drive, hit Enter. Now select the product which which is most similar to yours from search results.
Download the mFormat utility. If you are asked for serial no. Enter your product serial no. Or if you don’t have it enter this number:. Plug-in your drive and run the utility to format your drive. You may need to try this method several times to fix the error.
Well as I said earlier that every single trick among all those listed above have solved the problem for many and has not for many others. Lets hope one of these will help you out of the “Write-protection” error. If you fail, feel free to ask. But if you succeed, please let us know which one worked for you, so that our future readers get a share of your valuable experience. Also, if you feel you have a better idea, let me know via comments.