Can't format USB Stick

Ok so here's what happened. I had been using a USB stick to re-install Windows 10 and quickly reformat my dads laptop. Now I used the existing Windows 10 to create the live USB drive and I guess it write protected the stick. Now I've been trying a bunch of things to get my stick back: - Bootice - Gparted (Format to, Delete) - Windows Disk Utility - Linux (Cinnamon?) Disk Utility - Dispart (clean, recover) - Windows quick format So I pretty much am just getting errors > Unable to format because of I/O Error > > Unable to open drive read-write. Drive opened read-only > > Unable to format because it's opened read-only If you have any suggestions on what to do. I have a Linux and a Windows 10 installation so I can try both :)