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Posted on Apr 02, 2009

Pendrive appear as cd drive in my computer

I have this pendrive, transcend jetflash v-110 16 gb, the problem started when i pull my pendrive from my laptop with out using the safely remove wizard, and now when i insert it, it will appear as cd drive in my computer, with zero bytes and no files in it, i try to format it using dos but it says it is write protected, pls advice

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******Chances are that the CD drive took the drive letter of your thumb drive and it is now locked.******

Need to know what operating system you are using: Win 2000, XP, Vista. There are different tools you need to use in order to resolve this issue.

For XP (your thumb drive needs to be inserted)

Click start then run. Type "compmgmt.msc"

This will bring up the Computer Management console. From there you will see the Storage category (on the left side). Under Storage click the Disk Management sub category.

Here you will see all the file systems available to windows.

Right click on the drive in question and click the "Change drive letter and paths" sub-category. Just choose a letter that is not in use. I prefer to use 2 or 3 letters down from the current.

Now properly remove drive and re-insert.

Hope that helps.


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