Read-Only Drive can't format

[AOD_ReloadedKamel]

Portable hard drive
- diskpart says the State-readyonly YES after clearing it. Won't change...
Tried using a third party program to format it, nothing
Any ideas? I'm about 90% sure it's physically busted since it's never ejected properly, just yanked out whenever.

[Jimbo]

Did you try booting into linux and mounting/formatting it there?

[AOD_ReloadedKamel]

I was helping a buddy remotely. Using Ubuntu is a great idea but not possible for him.
He decided to replace it with a new drive

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