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The SanDisk Cruzer Glide is USB flash drive with a retractable USB plug. It comes in a variety of storage capacities with a black and red plastic case for all models.

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How to reset write protection?

Hi

My flash is suddenly write protected

How can I recover it?

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What is your OS: Windows, Mac, or Linux/Unix?

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OS X El Capitan 10.11.2

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Have you tried moving your data off the drive and re-formatting it ?

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Yes I tried, but I could not, It shows me an error , it seems full.

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Hi @armand,

your USB flash drive is probably over it's lifetime. Each USB flash drive has limited count of maximum writes and after that the flash remains in read only state.

It means that you can copy data out but you are not able to write any data on the stick - this is pretty cool because you can safely move your data out without any data loss (reading is not limited).

It's time to buy the new USB flash stick dude!

Best regards

@jialtman

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