Windows 11 Windows Defender is unable to quarantine trojan on hard drive stuck on read only.

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My entire drive is set to read only, I'm unable to change it using multiple methods, anytime I try to alter the attributes I'm told that the files are write protected, unable to format drive or delete any files, and windows defender has identified, but failed to quarantine trojan. Trojan is on read only drive so I'm unable to delete it manually. Is there any way to wipe the entire drive if I'm unable to remove the read only attribute?Win+R, Diskpart, select drive, attributes disk clear readonly does not work.Removing write protection using Registry Editor does not work.Trying to Format from Sy

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