Unable to format usb stick all options in erase are grayed out

Iam having a problem with a 2 week old emtec 128gb usb stick, it is stuck on read only.
I bought it because i recently bought a new macbook pro 2013 and i needed a drive that worked on both mac and windows to transfer mostley media files from my old hp to the mac.
It worked fine the fist couple of times i used it, copying/pasting files between windows and mac, and then i connected it to my gf macbook to copy some files but i couldnt because it had changed to read only. I connected back to my macbook to change it in the get info but there was no option to change it on the bottom in the sharing & permissions it just has "you can only read". I connected back to my gf macbook and tryed the same thing but that didnt work eirther. I then tried to repair the stick in disk utility but i only had the option to verify and that told me to repair it but the repair button it gryed out, so i then tryed to re-format it but all the options in the erase part are gryed out.
I have also tryed to format it on a pc but that didnt work it say it is "write protected". There is no physical switch on the stick itself that makes it read only. The sticks format is fat32.
So my question is, does anyone know of this happening before and if so did they find a solution??

So emtec had a restore tool for that modle usb stick, they sent me this download http://www.emtec-international.com/sites/default/files/drivers/restore.ziip
This fixed it, even tho i stated i own a mac in the email i sent to emtec this restore program will ONLY work on windows

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