Retail Windows usb drives

Retail Windows usb drives

Basic Information
Release Year	2015
Product Type	Hardware and software
In Production	Yes
Official Website	https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-home/dg7gmgf0krt0

Since the release of Windows 10 Microsoft has sold usb drives with an installer preloaded but these drives are deeply write protected with no official way to reformat to reuse it for anything other than the manufacturing year’s windows installer

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Consumer impact summary

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• User Freedom These usb drives are artificially unwritable preventing reuse one would expect from a usb flash drive. There is no indication on the Windows 11 22h2 usb drive box exterior that it is not rewritable.

Microsoft has undoubtedly sold millions of non rewritable windows usb drives creating ewaste

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Incidents

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Shortly after the sale of these drives people went to forums seeking help on why their drive can’t be written to no matter what they tried

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