Due to "unsafe" removal, I now have a corrupted 1Gb Flash Drive that
cannot be Erased, Formatted or Changed as any action results in a "Write
Protected" message. There is NO access to any Write Protect switch
on/inside the device. Can anything be done to restore proper opertion??
The drive performed OK prior to the "unsafe" removal. I have tested the
drive in WinXP, Vista, Win2K and Mac computers to Format/Erase with no
luck.

John the WebTV Man wrote:
Unsafe removal can crash the file system but (usually) not
the device. It's just coincidence. Maybe it died because
its time was over.
Drive and data are gone. Rescue might be possible by professional
data rescue but this is expensive.

Uwe