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Hey guys, recently i had the decision to change my OS on my laptop to something other than Ubuntu (my desktop, which I'm typing on right now, is Windows) because Ubuntu was a little bit too heavy for the laptop i was using. After having some trouble with Linux light, i went to put on Linux Mint, and my USB drive itself is read-only. the drive doesn't have a lock on it, and I've tried all of the basic ways to fix this online, and it hasn't changed. I'm running windows 10 pro 64 bit. Any ideas?

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3 minutes ago, Geruiem said:

Hey guys, recently i had the decision to change my OS on my laptop to something other than Ubuntu (my desktop, which I'm typing on right now, is Windows) because Ubuntu was a little bit too heavy for the laptop i was using. After having some trouble with Linux light, i went to put on Linux Mint, and my USB drive itself is read-only. the drive doesn't have a lock on it, and I've tried all of the basic ways to fix this online, and it hasn't changed. I'm running windows 10 pro 64 bit. Any ideas?

do you have any anti virus programs on your computer? when did it become read only?

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14 minutes ago, piratemonkey said:

do you have any anti virus programs on your computer? when did it become read only?

No, i just have whatever Windows Defender offers. It became read only after the first try of using it as a bootable USB.

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15 minutes ago, Geruiem said:

No, i just have whatever Windows Defender offers. It became read only after the first try of using it as a bootable USB.

the stuff in this thread might help just be careful if you use the command prompt one 

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Disk Management also wouldn't let me reformat it, i forgot to mention that to you all beforehand

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Have you tried using diskpart instead of Disk Management? Your USB drive probably has various partition table set-ups that the OS you are running does not support. You can try to re-format a USB key and re-partition it.

  • Open a Command Window (cmd)
  • Enter diskpart
  • Enter list disk (it is important you KNOW which disk is the USB key you are formatting)
  • Enter select disk x where x is your USB key
  • Enter clean
  • Enter create part primary
  • Enter select part 1
  • Enter active
  • Enter format fs=fat32
The process can take some time, but the USB should be now operational.
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