Write protected 230GB USB flash drive

Marcus_WRB to Data Hoarder@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 11 months ago

We got a USB flash drive at my work to update some software. After it had updated, the flash drive was just gonna get thrown in the trash, but I saw that it has 230GB of space on it, so I took it with me home instead.

Unfortunately it’s write protected and can’t be used or reformatted.

I tried using a software called MiniTool Partition Wizard to do something with it, but wasn’t able to.

Is there any workaround for write protection?

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