USB pen drive suddenly became read-only

Kingston DTSE9 16 Gb USB pen drive (genuine one) suddenly became read-only. Has been used in car, permanently plugged in into USB socket as music collection for approx 6 months. Was barely written to 5 times max. Could have been exposed to extremely low temperatures (-2 degree Celcius, Manchester, UK, lol).

Any attempt to format or partition fails. Searched inteet. Tried OSX, Windows, Ubuntu. I can afford to throw it away and buy 10 new ones (wasted much more time already trying to format it) - but it's a matter of principle, right??

My guts telling me it is possible to mount it manually in Unix/Linux in a special way - but i'm not strong in that. Any suggestions from unix command line gurus who appreciate matter of principle? Or is it the time when machines are beating human yet??? I know this site is the best on the inteet, so if noone here can help than no point fighting it further. Thank you for reading!

Oh. There is no physical write protection switch on the drive :)

Image on the pen drive: no physical switch

Attempt to partition pen drive using OS X

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