You could format the drive after you copy what you want to save off it.
I bought a used pc and copied some songs on it to a thumb drive. Now I can't delete any of them off the thumb. Keeps saying copyright protected. I have tried everything I can think of under the sun to delete them. I used a 32 gig thumb and can't do anything with it until I can remove those stubborn songs. HELP!

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