I have a bunch of Kingston Data Traveler USB sticks ranging in size from 16GB to 64 GB. These have a "read only" partition and a data partition, and access to the data partition is only through software in the "read only" partition (Diskpart shows it as a CDROM), where it gets encrypted with a password you supply. In my last job I needed the extra security but I don't anymore so I want to use these as normal USB sticks. But it won't let me format the "read only" partition.
If I just try formatting it from the command line or Windows File Explorer it does nothing - not even an error message. How do I turn these things into normal, non-encrypted USB sticks?
Someone posted a question like this here:
How to clear current “read-only” state on a USB flash drive I setup with Rufus?
... but the suggested fix involved the use of a dodgy-looking utility.
...also on other questions like this some people suggested formatting it on a Linux system but I don't have access to a Linux system.
