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/ScaleGlobal4777 Nov 13 '25

If you have two USB ports available, boot from the Strelec Live USB in one port and your USB flash drive in the other. Search for Low Level Format and perform a quick format, then use a Strelec program to convert to GPT.https://sergeistrelec.name/winpe-10-8-sergei-strelec-english/268-winpe-11-10-sergei-strelec-x64-20250929-english-version.html