How to recover my USB flash drive?

**boybi** · May 7th, 2010 04:51 PM

I haven't tried linux, and don't know anyone near my place who uses linux

**digitalron** · May 7th, 2010 05:05 PM

Just to be sure... as most thumb drives have a physical lock that allows/disallows writing to the disk, can you confirm that the lock is set to the "write" position? It is normally an image of an open padlock.

**boybi** · May 7th, 2010 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by digitalron

Just to be sure... as most thumb drives have a physical lock that allows/disallows writing to the disk, can you confirm that the lock is set to the "write" position? It is normally an image of an open padlock.

It doesn't have a physical write protect switch.

**ghosthunter** · May 7th, 2010 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by digitalron

Just to be sure... as most thumb drives have a physical lock that allows/disallows writing to the disk, can you confirm that the lock is set to the "write" position? It is normally an image of an open padlock.

you might be confused... most usb flash drives don't have a physical write protect switch. This is a common feature of SD cards though.