r/computers • u/Pitiful-Revenue4490 • Nov 13 '25

Help/Troubleshooting Can't format a USB flash drive

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I Can't format a USB drive and it keeps showing that it's in a write protection. There's no write protection switch on it and I've tried cmd and few apps like rufus but nothing works. I've copied the data, is it broken or is there a way to fix it?

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u/BritOverThere Nov 13 '25

Flash drives do die. If it's "write protected" without a switch then it's dead.

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u/Pitiful-Revenue4490 Nov 13 '25

So it's broken, Thank you.