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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Write protected 230GB USB flash drive (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by Marcus_WR@alien.top [B] to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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We got a USB flash drive at my work to update some software. After it had updated, the flash drive was just gonna get thrown in the trash, but I saw that it has 230GB of space on it, so I took it with me home instead.

Unfortunately it's write protected and can't be used or reformatted.

I tried using a software called MiniTool Partition Wizard to do something with it, but wasn't able to.

Is there any workaround for write protection?

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[–] Sopel97@alien.top [B] 1 point 2 years ago

What's the model of the flash drive?

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