For those of you who are experiencing problems with flash drive, in particularly the case when your flash drive says that it is flash disk write protected or disk corrupted status in windows but you cannot format the drive, there are many way to repair your drive one of them is by using many flash disk tools available on the internet. Or, you can use some of the following ways to fix it:

1. Flash format via Linux / Linux LiveCD

(Original page: http://linux.or.id/node/2835/)

Steps that must be done:

1.   Boot the computer using a Linux LiveCD, for example Slax KillBill, Knoppix or other Linux distributions,

2.   After logging into the system, enter your troubled flash drive into one of the USB port. For the sake of data security, make sure that you only inserted the troubled flash drive on your USB port,

3.   Make sure your flash drive is detected by the computer, or at least the indicator led is flashing,

4.   Sign in to console

5.  In the console run cfdisk /dev/sda1 (adjust it with the number of the installed flash disk),

6.   Delete or remove the partition on the flash,

7.   Create a new partition by selecting Create New | Write,

8.   Save the changes you just make,

9.   Format the flash disk by typing the command mkfs.vfat-f32 / dev/sda1 on the console.

10.   Your Flash disk has a new partition, so you can use it both in Linux and in Windows.