Can't remove Write Protection from USB stick!

[Funky]

Hi there everyone, just decided recently to actually start posting in this forum and guess what.. Immediately I encounter a problem.

Hopefully someone out there has had this issue before, I was busy copying across a massive collection of music to my Kingston Data traveler USB stick (It's this model if that's any help: http://www.kingston.com/datasheets/dthx30_en.pdf ) Halfway through the writing process I jogged the stick and it came out of the USB port. When I put it back in it came up saying "You must format this drive in order to use it", I thought it was fishy but did it anyway. Now I'm pretty sure that I've managed to corrupt something. Whenever I try to transfer data to it it will just say: This disk is write protected, Remove the write protection or use another disk". I tried wiping it and starting afresh by using the command prompt but it just said that it was write protected and the process stopped.

I'm using Windows 7 64bit, here are my PC specs although they're probably not needed in this situation:

• CPU
  Intel i7 2600K
• Motherboard
  Asus P8Z68-V LE
• RAM
  Corsair Vengeance 16Gb @1600Mhz
• GPU
  Zotac AMP edition GTX 780
• Case
  NZXT H440
• Storage
  480Gb Intel 520 SSD, 2Tb Caviar Black
• PSU
  Corsair RM 750
• Display(s)
  Samsung SA350
• Cooling
  H100i

Anyone have any ideas? If this were just any old stick I'd give up but its a pretty expensive 64Gb usb 3.0 one and it'd be very annoying to have to replace it I'd appreciate any ideas!

 

[T.Vengeance]

Go to CMD>diskpart>list disk>select disk__> clean

 

Then format after. That should work.

[Funky]

Thanks for the quick reply, had a go with your instructions. Sadly this popped up:

 

Seems its really stubborn about being written to at all! I've tried taking data off it though and it's worked fine so it must still be functioning