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From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov>
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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 17:09:19 -0500
Subject: RE: disk format question
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bartels sent the following at Tuesday, January 08, 2013 9:00 AM
>I frequently need to destroy a file system on removable media. The
>windows format.com claims the fs is write protected, but I hope dd
>can help out.

In Windows Explorer, right clicking on the drive should give a format
command.  Whether using it will tell you that the drive is write
protected works is another issue.

- Barry
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