If you've purchased a PC from Dell lately you might have noticed that there is an option to get the recovery media, specifically Windows 8.1, on an 8GB 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. Here's how to reformat the newer, 'Blue Label', Dell USB Recovery drives.
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UPDATE 2016/10/07: If you have Dell Windows 10 USB sticks, please see. UPDATE: jParnell8839 pointed out in the comments below (and 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 'TC58TEG6DDK (eD2.16K)'. Blue label drives that identify themselves as 'TC58TEG6TCK (eD3.8K)' should work with UPTool without issue. UPDATE 2: Steve Cole posted in the comments below the solution for the eD2.16k drives. The new guide can be found. Thanks Steve.
Disabling the Write Protection on Dell eD3.8k 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. For a step-by-step guide). Download hollywood dubbed movies in hindi for free. 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! I've been at a loss for a few months on what to do with the Blue Label drives.
I've tried a number of things and fried a number of USB thumb drives. I had given up on the Blue Label drives when swaggered in and dropped the solution in the comments of the post. What I've done, below, is take his directions and put them in our guide format. I've made no attempt to try other settings and have made very little changes. All the credit should go to Tojo. I've 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 it's much slower than the other tool. Again, see the for those drives. WARNING: This process will irrevocably destroy all data on the USB flash drive.
Start by downloading. This can also be downloaded from Tojo's original location, but I've added the dell.ini file to the zip to speed up the process. 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 UPToolVer2092.exe. Worked great for me with a blue labeled drive that Dell had mailed to me just a couple weeks ago! First attempt was by 8-port hub which I interrupted at 17%.
Since the process had already taken over 40 minutes at that point I thought it got hung up somehow. I then tried by 12-port hub just for kicks, at noticed drive recognition and format went snappier, more responsive overall if that makes any sense. This run I didn't watch past the first few% but let it run over night. The next morning I was smiling at a green 100%! Needless to say the drive works flawless under all read and write conditions since. Any chance you'd go for round 4?
Description: D:USB Mass Storage Device(KDI-MSFT Windows 10) Device Type: Mass Storage Device Protocal Version: USB 3.00 Current Speed: High Speed Max Current: 126mA USB Device ID: VID = 0951 PID = 16AA Serial Number: 0018F30BC074BF61310816E6 Device Vendor: KDI-MSFT Device Name: Windows 10 Device Revision: 0100 Manufacturer: KDI-MSFT Product Model: Windows 10 Product Revision: PMAP Chip Vendor: Phison Chip Part-Number: PS2251-07(PS2307) - F/W 01.04.53 2014-12-02 Flash ID Code: 983AA892 - Toshiba TLC. I discovered that this writes a pretty terrible partition table, which is probably why people have had to reformat again with Windows (or in my case Linux). I may play with the options from the Dell.ini or the Setup menu a bit more to see if I can get it to stop writing garbage.
After UPTool but before I reformat Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.27.1). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command. Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 7.6 GiB, bytes, 15996919 sectors Units: sectors of 1. 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x2c6b7369 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 883G 68 unkno /dev/sda2 538976288 257G 79 unkno /dev/sda3 53893362912 666.8G 53 OnTra /dev/sda4 21337 10.4M 49 unkno Partition table entries are not in disk order.
Command (m for help): After I reformat to correct the garbage from UPTool Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.27.1). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command.
Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 7.6 GiB, bytes, 15996919 sectors Units: sectors of 1. 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Command (m for help). I have the TC58TEG6TCK (eD3.8K) drive so it says on the top right of the UP-tool, the i load the dell.ini and select the 8 port hub option the refresh and then it is blue. But then i start it but it turns red with the error code 0073.