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I have this flash drive that I grabbed from work that has a few files on it I would like to delete.

It is a 32GB flash drive and when trying to delete the data I get this error message:

"This Drive is write protected."

Is there a way to change this on a Mac? I have tried erasing the drive and get this error.

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I have tried changing this on a Windows as well by going into regedit and changing the WriteDefault to 0, I had to actually create that 32-WRD key because there was none initially. I restarted the computer and no luck. I also tried going into Command Prompt and clearing the partitions on it with no luck either.

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It's NTFS so OSX by default can't write to the device - even to erase it. You'll need to format it into another file system (e.g., FAT32, exFAT, OSX Journaled, or find a beta of Mac's new APFS file system).

You can also try to install an NTFS tool for OSX like NTFS For Mac.

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