https://superuser.com/questions/148385/usb-write-protected is closed as a duplicate of https://superuser.com/questions/112401/why-would-disks-mysteriously-become-write-protected which is closed as a duplicate of https://superuser.com/questions/158083/how-to-remove-the-write-protection-from-an-usb-flash-disk which is closed as a duplicate of the first question, https://superuser.com/questions/148385/usb-write-protected. Funnily enough, these questions were all closed by [random ♦][1]. [1]: https://superuser.com/users/307/random