I Cannot Reformat/Erase Flash Drive, Option is Grayed out
Hi I have been looking at a lot of tutorials and I cannot figure out why this is happening on my laptop.
I want to reformat/ erase my Sandisk Cruiser Glide Media 16gb flash drive because It suddenly went into a read-only mode and now I want to erase it completely. My main objective is to delete everyting so maybe the drive will stop being in read-only mode.
When I go to the Disk utility, my options for erasing my flash drive are grayed out (meaning that I cannot click them). Is there a way to work around the Disk Utility menu and erase my flash drive some other way?
What should I do?
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Thanks in advance!
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion, Laptop is 1 year old