deviney Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I have been trying to get my usb stick (the one from hak5 shop) to work with my pineapple and i went to reformat it and now its saying it write protected. I have googled everywere and tried to the 'redgit' route and the ubuntu disk utility format but still i carnt do anything to the usb stick! has the pineapple broke it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowBlade72 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 (edited) Someone else was having issues. I believe that he was able to reformat it with Gparted. Fire up Gparted, then in the top right select the USB drive from the dropdown. Then proceed to format the drive. Try searching next time. The other thread is only about four down from this one... Edited January 21, 2013 by ShadowBlade72 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deviney Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 i had already tried that without any luck at all :( i had seen that post aswell, i do try everything i can think of before i post here belive me! i would hate people to think i was a time waster. To be honst i think the usb stick must be broken and that was why the pineapple could never use it the firs place and it needed formating so many times. Hopfully am wrong and sombody else here has a suggestion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathdealerxx Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I purchased the a 4gb Sandisk Fit when I got my pineapple a month ago. I was able to use it on battery power for the first few days, I used two battery sources the Pineapple Juice battery and I also tried an Anker3 battery. Then the usb drive wasn't being detected. I tried to format the usb drive on several different machines, linux and windows, none of the computers I used were able to format that little usb drive. So I contacted the resellers and they promptly sent out another 4gb usb, which now will only work correctly when plugged into ac power. So at least in my experience my usb drive stopped working and had to return it for another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzdingo Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 same thing here have tried almost every thing to fix it and no luck best bet buying another one they arnt that expensive but if you find a way yell out i have broken 2 of them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deviney Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 i went and bought an 8gb one by another popular brand (cant remember it right now) its about the same size. It formatted perfectly and works off the pineapple juice battery pack.... so Brucie bonus! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreidiv Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Please let us know what brand it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathdealerxx Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 After the sandisk stopped working I bought a verbatim tuff n go 4gb usb drive. It works great haven't had any issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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