Usb Pen Nightmare!

[timread]

Are you absolutely sure that you haven't picked up a group policy to enforce write protection on USB keys?

This can be over-ridden by setting the following reg key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies]
"WriteProtect"=dword:00000000

The key is Hexadecimal, not decimal. The value should be '0'. If it's currently enforcing write protection, the dword value will be Hexadecimal format, value '1'.

[Tumble]

Have you tried logging in to the local account on the the computer and NOT the domain? There's some things I can't do logged onto the domain that I can do when I'm logged in locally.