Copying, moving, or deleting files on a USB drive is usually straightforward. However, this may not be the case if the USB drive you're using is write-protected. As the name suggests, write protection ...

I'd plug it back into the buddy's computer and poke around looking to see if there was special software, or maybe windows has an option to turn on something inside it.

I have a bunch of 100mb Zip disks that I read/write protected with the Iomega Zip tools on an old Win98 PC which has gone. I have just tried opening them on another XP box and it just won't have it.

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