hello everyone.

i have a usb stick that it gets recognised as read only.
how do i fix that issue, so i could format it and have a usable usb stick?
i have tried with dosfsck -a without success

Disk /dev/sdb: 31.4 GB, 31449415680 bytes
19 heads, 19 sectors/track, 170151 cylinders, total 61424640 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x10635f1f

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *        8064    61424639    30708288    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
*root@netbook:~#* dosfsck -a /dev/sdb1
dosfsck 3.0.13, 30 Jun 2012, FAT32, LFN
open: Read-only file system
*root@netbook:~#*

even gparted has it recognised as read only

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