I had problems last week on my GB UHD UE and saw that /media/hdd had been set as read only in Mount Manager.
I rebooted and the drive wouldn't mount at all so I tried to initialise it but this failed because of the R/O attribute.

I removed the drive, which is a 128Gb Sandisk USB drive and replaced it to get the box working.

I have spent most of the day trying to either remove the R/O attribute or just delete the partition and reformat and had no luck whatsoever.

I've tried various partition managers in Windows and also diskpart. I've also tried Gparted and the disk utility in Ubuntu with no success.

Is it just something that has gone faulty or has anyone else had any similar experiences or success with anything like this?

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