How can I remove "Write Protect" on USB drive.

centre21 said:

BE AWARE - the SiliconPower low-level formatter only works with those Dell USB sticks that have a multi-colored label on the back. If your Dell Mentor Media USB stick has a solid blue label, DO NOT use the SiliconPower solution as it will give an error -2 and brick your stick. Does anyone have a solution for the blue-labeled USB sticks? Also, anyone know of how to rescue the bricked USB sticks?

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Sorry to bump an old thread but I just used this on one with the Blue sticker that we just got and it seems to have worked fine. I can pop in the disk and it shows up as a blank USB drive.
Says P/N KR2H9_A00

Most likely a faulty firmware chip or board on the USB drive.

Download Silicone Power Formatter Version 3.7.0.0 2225 I formated 18 of them with no issues. The ones with the light blue or just blue backs. It did not work on the multicolored one that I tried but I had tried something else on it that turned it into 2 4gig partitions and the power formatter just did the same thing but I have not tried it on a new multicolered because I didn't have anymore of those but the blue ones 8 gigs no problem
SNAP!!!!! Good luck!

Silicon Power Formatter bricked 4 of those 8GB Dell flash drives. The ones with the light blue label on the back. P/N KR2H9_A00. The chips on mine were PHISON PH2251-07 if I read it correctly (very small text). I also tried the PHison ST-TOOL v3.67, it did nothing.

mine read PA5080L-MD8U on the side 2-45-150318-19734 on the light blue sticker and used version 3.7.0.0 there are several options to download where I got mine

Hello guys,

Thanks for this thread, it didn't give me the solution but i could find a solution for my problem, i do have Dell usb sticks with light blue on the back, i have tried different solution which didn't work, finaly i came across a post in an other website, just follow the instructions and i should work just fine here is the link http://www.techunboxed.com/2016/09/how-to-disable-write-protection-on-dell.html

Good luck