USB Drive went into Read-only mode and doesn't allow me to write or delete anything
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If that doesn't work, you may need to unmount and use fsck. If the stick has got corrupted, then it's mounted as ro so that you can get at the data but not make things worse by writing to it.
I don't want to sound flip and you may already have tried this, but have you tried unmounting, removing, and remounting the drive? I have had this happen to me occasionally (less than once every month or two) with a drive that is constantly connected and with my Iriver podplayer, which mounts as a mass storage device, and removing and reconnecting the device has always cleared it up.
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