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How To Disable Write Protection From Pendrive: Solution

1) Write protection is a feature that prevents writing to drives like USB drives and SD cards to protect data and prevent viruses from copying to the drive. 2) To disable write protection, check if there is a physical switch and switch it to unlock. Otherwise, use Diskpart or the Registry Editor to clear the read-only attribute. 3) As a last resort, try formatting the drive using tools like Neo 9, Transcend's Online Recovery Tool, or Apacer Formatting Utility.

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How To Disable Write Protection From Pendrive: Solution

1) Write protection is a feature that prevents writing to drives like USB drives and SD cards to protect data and prevent viruses from copying to the drive. 2) To disable write protection, check if there is a physical switch and switch it to unlock. Otherwise, use Diskpart or the Registry Editor to clear the read-only attribute. 3) As a last resort, try formatting the drive using tools like Neo 9, Transcend's Online Recovery Tool, or Apacer Formatting Utility.

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how to Disable write protection from pendrive

We received problem from our Reader regarding "Removing write protection


from Pendrive". Here we will try to solve it.

What is write protection?

SD Card with Lock


- Write Protection is a feature(yes you read it right) that is generally found in
flash drives like pen drives and memory card. It prohibits users to write
anything to the drive, thus protect the drive from any modification to its data
and also stops virus(from computer) to Copy(write) itself to the drive.

Initially, it was done using a small physical (hard)switch located in the Pendrive
and memory card. The small yellow switch in this snap is for write protection.
Similar, switch is used in any side of some pendrives.

Now, this feature is also being achieved digitally without any Hardware.

Why is it a problem then?


-it is a Problem when:
a) we don't know about it and it prohibits us from writing
b) it is (digitally) implemented without user consent either by someone or by
Virus

Solution
First of all, make sure if there is any physical Switch is present or not, if it is
then adjust it to unlock side.
If there is no physical switch or still problem persists, Go ahead.

As many a times it is done by virus also, it is suggested to scan your system


including pendrive with a good updated Antivirus, if you don't have any then
Download and install MalwareBytes, update it and do the scan.
For detail information of Virus cleaning, check : clean virus

UPDATE:

I have found a simple trick which also solves this problem (when your USB
Device has minor problem only). Try this :

1) Right click 'My computer' -> Manage or Management -> Disk management
2) select your USB drive -> Right click ->"change drive letter and paths"
3) Then Rename it to a different letter

Check whether it starts working or not !!

Note: Quotes( ' ) are used for information only, whenever you are asked to type, do
without the quotes. Ex: if asked to type 'abc'. Then don't put quotations ( ' ) while typing,
type only
abc

Method I : Using Diskpart

First we will try to remove read only attribute from the specific drive.

Warning : Be sure to do this on the right disk since the diskpart command can
do serious damage if you run it on the wrong disk.

1) Start Menu -> Run(or in search box) -> Type 'cmd' -> press 'Enter' ->
Command Promt will open
2) Type 'Diskpart' -> enter -> 'list disk' -> enter
3) Select the disk you are going to modify, if your required USB disk is in 'disk
4' then
4) type 'select disk 4' -> enter , now disk 4 is selected, 'list disk' will show
star(*) beside it
5) 'list disk' -> enter
To Clear the Read-Only attribute on the selected disk (To Disable write
protection):
6) Type 'attributes disk clear readonly' -> enter
The disk is no longer Write protected. The Read-Only attribute is removed.

If you wish to set the write protection again, just do the same procedure and
Type 'attributes disk set readonly' -> enter

When you are done modifying the disk attributes just issue the exit command
7) Type 'exit' -> enter

If files inside USB drive are still in read only mode


-open command prompt
-Type ' j: ' -> enter (put your drive label in place of 'j' )
- Type ' attrib -r /s /d *.* ' -> enter
- exit

Method II : Using RegEdit

This will Remove write protection from USB Drives. If it doesn't then lets disable
writeprotect from your System Using Registry Editor:

1) Start Menu -> Run(or in search box) -> Type 'regedit' -> press 'Enter' ->
Registry Editor will open
2) Expand by clicking ' + ' and Navigate to the following path :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageD
evicePolicies

If you can't find 'StorageDevicePolicies', then you have to create the key:
-Right click on ' control '-> New -> Key -> a new key will get created ->
rename it as 'StorageDevicePolicies'
-Right click on 'StorageDevicePolicies'
-> New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value -> Name it as 'WriteProtect'

writeProtect to storage device policies

Now if you want to enable write protection, use ' 3) ' , to Disable write
protection, use ' 4) '

3)To Enable Write protect, Double click on 'WriteProtect', and set its value
data to '1'
Edit DWORD value
Once set, all users on the computer is now blocked and prevented from copying,
transferring or writing any files, documents and data to the USB disk drives.
4)To Disable Write protect, Double click on 'WriteProtect', and set its value
data to '0'
Once reset to '0', all users on the computer is now allowed to copy, transfer or
write any file, document and data to the USB disk drives.

5)close your registry edit window.

For first time, you may get that same message again, close the notification
window and try to write to the USB again and it should work. You’ll probably
have to do this with all your USB drives to clear that “Disk is write protected”
message. Hope this helped.

If still same problem then You have to go for Formatting it.

Method III : Using Formatting

Try Formatting by Disk Management


If it doesn't format.

Try these tools:


1) Download Neo 9
(Zipped with Password - techsoln )
2) Transcend's Online Recovery Tool
3) Apacer Formatting Utility
(Zipped with Password - techsoln )

Using 1st two is simple.

For using Apacer Formatting Utility,


Unzip this utility to preferably on a folder on desktop for easy access (Do Not
Save it on pen drive).
Keep your pen drive plugged in
Double click on the 'Start.bat' file in the folder where you unzipped the above
utility.
This will start formatting your pen drive, wait till the formatting completes and
the LED on your pen drive stops blinking.
Remove your pen drive and plug it in again.

If you still face same problem, go to service center. If you have warranty left
then replace your pendrive.

Happy Computing :)

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