Type diskpart in the run box, like the screen shot above.<\/p>\n At the DISKPART> prompt, type list disk and press enter<\/p>\n From the size of the disk, you should be able to figure out which one is your removable disk. In this example, we know that\u00a0Disk 1<\/b>\u00a0is our removable USB thumb drive because its size is listed as\u00a014 GB, make sure you select the correct disk, otherwise you can lose your data in other drives.<\/b><\/p>\n Select your removable disk with the\u00a0select disk<\/b>\u00a0command. In this example, we want to work with disk 1, so the command is<\/p>\n To clear the read-only attribute (making the disk writable), use the command<\/p>\n That should do the trick, now exit and now you can use your usb again, you can try that with other types, like SSD, External drives etc.<\/p>\n *Also you can write protect your drives like this, for locking USB drives in future, you need to change the command, like this: <\/p>\n Now back to real topic<\/strong> if the above steps didn’t work for you like in my case, then you need to create partition and format the drive (formatting is optional), as you can do it from GUI too.<\/p>\n For creating partition, you need to repeat the above steps and use the command<\/p>\n Then select the partition by<\/p>\n and format it like<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.silicontechnix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/screenshot.248.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nlist disk<\/pre>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nselect disk 1<\/pre>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nattributes disk clear readonly<\/pre>\n
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\nThen type command<\/p>\nclean<\/pre>\n
\nattributes disk set readonly<\/code><\/p>\ncreate partition primary<\/pre>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nselect partition 1<\/pre>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nformat FS=NTFS label=WC-Drive quick<\/pre>\n