After reinstalling my OS, I encountered an issue where every USB stick and even one external hard drive became write-protected. Strangely, I could format them without any problem, but whenever I tried to download something onto them, I received the message: “The disk is write protected, remove the write-protection or use another disk.”

I tried cleaning attributes in Diskpart and used a hard disk low-level format application, and while the formatting process seemed to go smoothly, the drives remained unusable.

​After reinstalling my OS, I encountered an issue where every USB stick and even one external hard drive became write-protected. Strangely, I could format them without any problem, but whenever I tried to download something onto them, I received the message: “The disk is write protected, remove the write-protection or use another disk.”I tried cleaning attributes in Diskpart and used a hard disk low-level format application, and while the formatting process seemed to go smoothly, the drives remained unusable.  Read More

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