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For some reason I cannot add nor remove any files in my USB drive, and Windows says that it is write protected (I have no idea how write protect got enabled on the drive in the first place)

I can read and copy files from the USB drive just fine, but cannot write anything to it

I have seen this, and it says to go to StorageDevicePolicies, but it doesn't exist in my computer

All other USB drives work fine on this computer

Why did it suddenly get write protected, and how can I undo this? Can this be done without messing with the registry or formatting the drive? I don't want to format the drive

OS is Windows 7

user13267
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There's a big chance that if it gets write protected out of nowhere that it's dead, usually when flash memory has been overwritten more times than it can handle (which can sometimes be way too fast) then it just becomes read-only, happened to me several times, have only been able to restore it once.
If you feel you've tried everything, it's probably this

Agterbosch
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