I’ve had a .NET branded USB hard drive on my keychain for over a year.  It’s never worked.  Every time I plugged it in and tried to copy files to it, I’d get a write error stating that the media was write protected.  I chalked it up to a cheapo device that just didn’t work … but I kept it on my keychain because it “looked cool” (yeah, cool if you’re a geek.)

Well, today Steven Dougherty – who doesn’t have a blog and therefore I can’t link to him – today pointed out that there’s a little write protect tab on the device that just needs to be flipped.  Of course, Steven majored in music and I appeared to have majored in just being an idiot, hence the humor of this situation.

Suffice to say, my USB hard is now usable.  Thanks, Steven!