linux made my thumb drive read-only ??
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linux made my thumb drive read-only ??
I'm not quite sure what I did, but I can't seem to undo it. Linux says my thumb drive is read-only. I tried chmod without any success... what do I do?
- jayshields
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Well now it's happened again, only this time not to my drive... 
Now I can't even reformat it. It tells me it "Windows cannot format this drive - please make sure it isn't open bla bla bla". I've got the trash can file on the drive now and I CANT get it off. I'm a real n00b with permissions and filesystems in general... it's a weakness of mine I really need to work on.

Now I can't even reformat it. It tells me it "Windows cannot format this drive - please make sure it isn't open bla bla bla". I've got the trash can file on the drive now and I CANT get it off. I'm a real n00b with permissions and filesystems in general... it's a weakness of mine I really need to work on.
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