Retail Windows usb drives
Since the release of Windows 10 Microsoft has sold usb drives with an installer preloaded [1]". 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.
Microsoft has undoubtedly sold millions of non rewritable windows usb drives creating ewaste
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Incidents
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