Techunboxed How to Disable the Write Protection on Dell Windows 8 USB Recovery Sticks. If youve purchased a PC from Dell lately you might have noticed that there is an option to get the recovery media, specifically Windows 8. GB USB flash drive. After collecting a few of these, you may start asking yourself if you can use these for something other than recovery media. This is about when you discover that the the freaking things are read only. Heres how to reformat the newer, Blue Label, Dell USB Recovery drives. UPDATE 2. 01. 61. In our 2015 review of the top free duplicate file removers, we found 9 programs we could recommend with the best of these as good as any commercial product. You can even install Windows Vista with USB 2. All you need is a high speed 4GB flash memory only to create a bootable Windows Vista on. If you have Dell Windows 1. USB sticks, please see How to Disable the Write Protection on Dell Windows 1. USB Recovery Sticks. UPDATE j. Parnell. I confirmed that at least some, if not all, of the Dell USB drives that are currently shipping with Dell PCs do not work with this process and it may brick your USB drive. The offending drives have blue labels and can be identified in UPTool as TC5. TEG6. DDK e. D2. Search. Search guides by a keyword, such as dvd or matroska. Akon All Up 2 You Mp3 Free Download. The system will automatically search for that word in the titles and keywords of the guides. Rusty1 writes. 750 street. No Chance, Id be surprised if you could get a 103 for that price and its 899. Looks like we wont see them until next year now. Dierks is a perverted adventurer entered a labyrinth known as the Maous forest and was defeated by the maou himself. But taking pity on him, the maou kindly. Get help, support, and tutorials for Windows productsWindows 10, Windows 8. Windows 7, and Windows 10 Mobile. K. Blue label drives that identify themselves as TC5. TEG6. TCK e. D3. K should work with UPTool without issue. UPDATE 2 Steve Cole posted in the comments below the solution for the e. D2. 1. 6k drives. The new guide can be found at http www. Thanks Steve. Disabling the Write Protection on Dell e. D3. 8k Blue Label Drives. The older versions of these drives, with the multi color label on the back, were writable after a low level format see. How to Disable the Write Protection on the Dell Windows 8 USB Recovery Stick for a step by step guide. The low level format tool that works so well on the old drives ruins the newer version of the drives with solid blue labels on the back. The Internet to the rescue Ive been at a loss for a few months on what to do with the Blue Label drives. Ive tried a number of things and fried a number of USB thumb drives. I had given up on the Blue Label drives when Tojo swaggered in and dropped the solution in the comments of the original Dell USB drive post. What Ive done, below, is take his directions and put them in our guide format. Ive made no attempt to try other settings and have made very little changes. Dvd Next Copy Next Tech Rar ExtractorAll the credit should go to Tojo. Ive low level formatted more than a few blue label Dell USB drives with this utility and it works well. It also fixed the Blue Label drives that the other low level format utility had seemingly ruined. It even works on the older, multi color labeled drives, but its much slower than the other tool. Again, see the other post for those drives. WARNING This process will irrevocably destroy all data on the USB flash drive. Start by downloading UPTool Ver. This can also be downloaded from Tojos original location, but Ive added the dell. One last note to cover my ass and temper your expectations, I know nothing about the origins of this utility, use it at your own risk. Unzip the archive to a folder somewhere and double click UPToolVer. If this is the first time youve run UPTool, youll get a notification. Dvd Next Copy Next Tech RareClick OK and plug your blue label Dell USB drive into the USB port. In this example, the utility shows the drive as E and highlights it in blue. In the upper right hand corner, select something other than By Driver that continues to display the drive in blue. Ive selected By 8 port Hub, and the drive moved down to the top slot of the lower left hand group. Click the Load SETTING button. Browse to the DELL. Open. Click the Re. Fresh button to make sure the utility is reading the drive using the new settings. The drive may move to a different slot. Click the START button to start the low level format of the drive. The newly formatted drive with a test file.