I have tried most of the solutions I could find (came from here: [USB stick read only when should be read/write](https://askubuntu.com/questions/765945/usb-stick-read-only-when-should-be-read-write)), but to no avail.

The USB drive seems to be mounted in read-only on any operating system.. Could it be that the USB somehow turned on write protection on the hardware level? The last thing I was doing was copying some large video files on it, at which it suddenly stopped.

I successfully copied the video files on another USB drive, so I doubt that they caused this issue.

This is some info concerning the USB drive in question:

```
               *-usb:2
               description: Mass storage device
               product: Flash Disk
               vendor: USB
               physical id: 3
               bus info: usb@2:3
               logical name: scsi5
               version: 11.00
               serial: SCY0000000092741
               capabilities: usb-2.00 scsi emulated scsi-host
               configuration: driver=usb-storage maxpower=300mA speed=480Mbit/s
             *-disk
                  description: SCSI Disk
                  physical id: 0.0.0
                  bus info: scsi@5:0.0.0
                  logical name: /dev/sdb
                  size: 7800MiB (8178MB)
                  capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
                  configuration: logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=512 signature=00e47162
                *-volume
                     description: Windows FAT volume
                     vendor: MSDOS5.0
                     physical id: 1
                     bus info: scsi@5:0.0.0,1
                     logical name: /dev/sdb1
                     logical name: /media/egalea/FORENSICS
                     version: FAT32
                     serial: 0655-8d0c
                     size: 7797MiB
                     capacity: 7799MiB
                     capabilities: primary bootable fat initialized
                     configuration: FATs=2 filesystem=fat label=FORENSICS mount.fstype=vfat mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro state=mounted

```

Here is the result of `fsck /dev/sdb1`

```
    fsck from util-linux 2.27.1
    fsck.fat 3.0.28 (2015-05-16)
    open: Read-only file system

```