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Muzzerboy:
You might find they are simply damaged and unrecoverable. I spent several hours recently trying unsuccessfully to reformat some 8 and 16 GB USB sticks.

There are some pretty powerful tools for doing so (partman and beyond) but when these fail, you may simply have to conclude they are scrap. When the built-in controller sees a permanent hardware failure it may lock the device (ie read only) to prevent further loss of data, no matter what tools you deploy.

Luckily they are almost ten a penny these days and they are often given away free, loaded with demo software.

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