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No need to reformat your write protected USB. The hings you should do is to slide to small button you can see in your USB to remove the write protected.
Some usb pen drives, if thats what you mean? They have a little button on the side of them to protect the contents of the usb pen drive. Check that, tyhen go to "My Computer" look for pen drive, Right click and format.
Have you tried doing it from another PC? If the same problem persists,
look closely at your drive and check for a tiny switch that has a lock
label on it- it maybe switched to the lock position. Most USB drives
has this switch for write protection.
Far too often these little things have an almost invisible read/write protect button on them. Look carefully, over the entire surface of the USB Flash Drive. You might have this switch turned to Write Protect, which means there is nothing you can do, until you turn it the other way, and allow the device to be written to.
If this doesn'thave any movable switch. Actually very small switch on part of it. You got virus in it. Usually it is hidden, and usually name AUTORUN.INF. run scan to your usb drive.
the drive isnt write protected the usbport or the connection is loose so that the computer is showing the drive as read only drive also you can format it using command and also setting off the read only attribute that may have been put by a virus also softwares like usbcillin makes pen drive writeprotected take care
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