In this era of technology, we all come through gadgets that we could not even imagine few years back. One of them is Pendrive, a very tiny gadget manufactured to store huge amounts of data. Invention of Pendrive revolutionized the way we transferred data. Now we do not need to carry all those fragile CD’s and DVDs with us. Just plug-in Pendrive and you got everything you need. As we can easily make bootable usb for OS installation. But pendrive manufacturers keep on improvising their products and thus they introduces write protection in Pendrives. Write protection is a setting that blocks any sort of modification or deletion of a file. Even their are other possible ways to protect usb with password. But this is an ideal feature to secure data on USB but sometime it malfunctions and we can able to remove write protection from usb pendrive. Then you can not delete or copy a file or format the USB even when write Protection is switched off.
How To Remove Write Protection From USB Pendrive/SD Card. ?
There are several methods in doing this but on this Tutorial we will be using the Regedit method:-
Registry Editor is a collection of resource for Windows OS. We can easily edit, update and remove settings for any particular file, device and windows system. So we can also use registry editor to remove write protection from usb drive. So to remove the write protection follow below given steps.
After that new window for registry editor will get open.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM> CURRENTCONTROLSET > CONTROL >S TORAGEDEVICEPOLICIES
After successfully reaching to that portion as shown above. Double-click the “WriteProtect” key located in the right side pane and set the value to 0.
To finish the process safely remove the Pendrive, Restart your computer and Plug-in pendrive again. Hope this solution will works for you.
How To Remove Write Protection From USB Pendrive/SD Card. ?
There are several methods in doing this but on this Tutorial we will be using the Regedit method:-
Registry Editor is a collection of resource for Windows OS. We can easily edit, update and remove settings for any particular file, device and windows system. So we can also use registry editor to remove write protection from usb drive. So to remove the write protection follow below given steps.
- First of all open your “Start menu“, and search for “Run” option.
- Then type in “regedit” into run box and press Enter.
After that new window for registry editor will get open.
- Next step is to navigate through following path:-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM> CURRENTCONTROLSET > CONTROL >S TORAGEDEVICEPOLICIES
After successfully reaching to that portion as shown above. Double-click the “WriteProtect” key located in the right side pane and set the value to 0.
- Go to the Data Value box and press “OK”
To finish the process safely remove the Pendrive, Restart your computer and Plug-in pendrive again. Hope this solution will works for you.
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