Moreover it has to button on it for write protected. I'm going to assume you meant "no button on it". What manufacturer/model of USB drive is it? Some manufacturers do have utilities that interact on ...

Copying, moving, or deleting files on a USB drive is usually straightforward. However, this may not be the case if the USB ...

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.