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Formatting a read-only drive
My HP pen drive was once used in crypto mining somewhere (I don't know how). I want to format it to regain space because copying is not allowed in this drive, but I can't do that because it is read-...
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Unable to open /dev/sdb read-write (Read-only file system)
As in the title, I'm unable to format it as it says read-only. I've tried couple of searches and the solutions too. Even I tried GParted to see I have any luck. Unfortunately below is what I get.
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How do I format or partition a read-only USB drive?
Whenever I try formatting my Sandisk Cruzer Glide 16GB, I get this error message on Gparted.
GParted 0.11.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid
Libparted 2.3
Create Primary Partition #1 (ntfs, 14.42 GiB) on ...
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