Remove protected partition from USB drive using diskpart

You can't seem to remove a protected partition in Windows without resorting to the Command Line or Third Party utilities. And downloading a utility for something which you might do once every year is a bit overkill. Luckily using Diskpart is pretty straightforward.

1. Open an elevated command prompt.
2. Run diskpart
3. list disk
4. You can figure out which disk you need to format by checking the size of the drive. (If you are unsure which one it might be best to get some outside help)
   
5. select disk X where X is the number from step 4
6. list partition (there can be multiple partitions)
   
7. select partition 0
8. delete partition override
   
9. select partition 1
10. delete partition override
11. create partition primary
12. exit
13. Exit Command Prompt (type exit or just close the window)

Once you are done you will need to format the partition by clicking on it and following the instructions on screen.