Windows 10: USB Flash Drive became Read-Only on its own, can't change it back

Hello reddit, I need some help



I was copying some files to a flash drive when all of a sudden it stopped and gave me a message saying that the drive was not there. I removed it and inserted it back in, right as the device was detected, Windows warned me that there was something wrong with the device. I ignored it (yes, I know I shouldn't have) and went to try to finish copying the files but I was surprised with a message saying the drive was Write Protected. I googled about it and found some things to try, but none of them worked. Using diskpart to check the attributes, another surprise. Read-Only was disabled but 'Current Read-Only State" was enabled, I used the command I found on a forum to try and clear the attributes but it, unfortunately, didn't work. I also tried a registry method I found, but it didn't work either.

Anyone knows how to solve this? Thanks in advance for the answers.



P.S. Sorry for any mistakes, English is not my native language.

P.S.2 I'm not an expert in tech, sorry if I committed any 'atrocities'

Here's a screenshot from Command Prompt

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