My USB drive is showing up as read only on my mbp.

I've been using my USB drive up until last night only on my own computer. It's been working as it should. For whatever reason this afternoon, when I plugged it into my computer, it's showing up as a read only drive. Also, when I checked the info to see if I could switch it, it doesn't give me the option that it should. And, for whatever reason the drive said it was both created and modified on Dec 31 1979. When I looked it up on the forums, it said something about a switch, there's no such switch on my USB drive. Also it said reformat it on disk utility. The only button that is not greyed out is the verify disk button, which tells me that I need to click repair disk, which I couldn't. I tried to then erase it, the whole deal is greyed out. Then I asked my mom to try to reformat it or allow permissions on her PC, she tried both. It won't allow her. I don't want to lose this USB drive. It's a 16 GB and I like to use it for when I'm working on my bigger projects. Any ideas?

FCP X recognizes any file structure that looks like the file structure on an SD card as a camera. That's why we can take the SD cards out of our AVCHD flash-based camcorders and plug them into the card reader slots on the Mac and import files as if from the camera. When we connect to the camera using a USB cable, it simply looks like a USB drive to the computer. FCP X knows what the folder/directory structure for various AVCHD (and other) cameras looks like and will allow Import from Camera when it recognizes it. One possibility is that, somewhere, on your computer that file structure exists and is tricking FCP X into thinking there's a "camera" there ... virtual "camera" but still it looks like a camera to FCP X. Of course another possibility is that you still have the SD card from a camera in your card reader on the computer These were the possibilities that came to mind. Best wishes.
stephen

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