USB Read-Only RAW State

[tjwmagic]

So I have a SanDisk Cruzer Fit 2.0 USB that is giving me a headache. I don't need to recover the data of the drive, I just need to get it working again. The issue is, the disk is corrupted. Now the real issue is, it has a read-only protection on it. I have visually checked for the stupid lock switch, and it doesn't have one. In diskpart, when I list the attributes of the disk, it shows read-only as "NO" HOWEVER, the Current Read-Only State is "YES".

 

So I thought I would run the tool chkdsk on that drive, and yet, I get more errors. It says that chkdsk cannot run on a RAW partition. 

 

I am at a loss. I don't know what to look for, and I haven't seen a USB drive act like this in my time of working in IT. Usually, when a USB fails, it just won't even show up in the system. My suspension is the drive has failed. 

[savstars]

Looking at the ROI (return on investment), the cost of your time on this problem is now far exceeding the cost of a SanDisk Cruzer Fit 2.0 USB.  

 

I would consider the device dead and move on.  I know that isn't very helpful, but economically, you have spent too much time on fixing it.  Especially if you don't want to keep the data on it.

[tjwmagic]

That's kinda what I'm thinking. Like today, I just spent 30 min trying again. I just haven't had a USB drive do anything like this and I can't figure out what might have caused it.