PROBLEM: My 8GB USB flash drive works as it should on a Windows XP and a Windows Vista PC and on a Windows 7 laptop, but won’t work on my Windows 7 desktop PC. It does not report a problem and reads other flash drives, such as earlier, lower-capacity models I have. I have tried…

A USB cable provides a data transfer connection and provides power to the device. USB devices are either powered via the USB cable that connects them directly to the PC or laptop, such as wired or wireless mice and keyboards, flash drives, cameras, mobile phones, etc., or by an independent power supply supplied with the…

PROBLEM: Three standard 16GB or 32GB USB flash drives I own have mysteriously made themselves read-only write-protected. They can’t even be formatted. The files on them can be seen but can’t be deleted, moved or updated. When I try any of those actions, a message comes up saying that the write-protection has to be removed…