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i just can't seem to clear it....

not in disk part, not in software....

this USB is under this weird "current readonly state" after i used rufus to install my win 10 on my machine.....

 

when i first plug it in, it is:

current read-only state: no

read-only state: no

 

but the moment you try to write anything to it, it became this

 

current read-only state : Yes

read-only state: no

 

i've tried with all my port, and everything, and nothing's working....

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Use MiniTool do delete partition and then make a new one formatted NTFS.

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can't you just right click it when it pops up in your 'my computer' tab, and then select something like 'format'? then select NTFS and do a quick format and it should be fine again.

mine was atleast, tough i never used rufus for my win 10 installations, i just created bootable drive manually through the media creation tool.

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Open Command Prompt in Admin mode and type "diskpart" without the qoutes and press enter. Type "list disk" without the quotes and press enter. Find the usb drive in the list and type "select disk (put disk number of usb here)" and press enter. Type "clean" without the qoutes and press enter. WARNING THIS WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON THE DISK! BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU SELECTED THE DISK! Once finished close the command prompt amd pull the usb device out and plug it back in. Ignore all the prompts telling you to format it. Open disk management and right click on the unallocated space of the usb device and then click create simple partition. Just click next until the end. Click finish and wait for it to format. This might take 1 or 2 minutes once its finished formatting unplug the usb device and plug it back in again.

You've now got a working USB device!

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can't you just right click it when it pops up in your 'my computer' tab, and then select something like 'format'? then select NTFS and do a quick format and it should be fine again.

mine was atleast, tough i never used rufus for my win 10 installations, i just created bootable drive manually through the media creation tool.

 well, that's the problem, when i do that, it pops up saying "this disk is write protected"

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Open Command Prompt in Admin mode and type "diskpart" without the qoutes and press enter. Type "list disk" without the quotes and press enter. Find the usb drive in the list and type "select disk (put disk number of usb here)" and press enter. Type "clean" without the qoutes and press enter. WARNING THIS WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON THE DISK! BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU SELECTED THE DISK! Once finished close the command prompt amd pull the usb device out and plug it back in. Ignore all the prompts telling you to format it. Open disk management and right click on the unallocated space of the usb device and then click create simple partition. Just click next until the end. Click finish and wait for it to format. This might take 1 or 2 minutes once its finished formatting unplug the usb device and plug it back in again.

You've now got a working USB device!

2 things, that's what i've been trying the whole time......

 

secondly, clean doesn't work on all of my USB ports, after restart, or in safe boot console mode, it just says "device I/O error"

 

+when i do[format fs=fat32 QUICK]; the format would forever be stuck on 2%, i left it for a whole day, so i know, the first % was done in 5 mins

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