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Moreover it has to button on it for write protected. I'm going to assume you meant "no button on it". What manufacturer/model of USB drive is it? Some manufacturers do have utilities that interact on ...

I'd plug it back into the buddy's computer and poke around looking to see if there was special software, or maybe windows has an option to turn on something inside it.