How to Remove Write Protection From USB Pendrive (3 Ways)
Pendrive is 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 there 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 are not able to remove write protection from usb pendrive and also not able to 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?
Method 1:-
Remove Write Protection From Pendrive Using Regedit.
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. To remove the write protection from your SD card or Pendrive, follow the steps below:
➡ 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 pop up.
➡ Navigate through the 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.
Method 2:-
Remove Write Protection From USB Drive Using Command Prompt.
In case you were not able to fix write protection error from pendrive by using the first method, then I suggest you try command prompt. CMD is basically used for various purpose and one of its purpose is to fix write protection error.
➡ Click On “Start Button” ➡ Then Search “CMD” ➡ Then Click Enter to open command prompt window OR click on Win + R to open CMD.
➡ Type “diskpart” and press enter and another window will appear.
➡ Type “list volume” and press Enter. This command will display a list of drives connected to your computer.
➡ Search for your pendrive by the letter that follows its name.
➡ Type select volume x. Replace x with the number from the first column in the list for the USB drive or SD card you want to perform commands for.
➡ For example, if the USB drive is Volume 3, you’d type select volume 3.
➡ Type “attributes disk clear readonly” and press enter.
➡ Type “exit“ and press enter.
Now you should remove the drive and re-insert it and hope this method will fixed issue.
Method 3:-
Remove Write Protection From Pendrive By Formatting
If none of the methods above have worked, try formatting your pendrive in safe mode.
➡ Restart your computer and press the “F8” key. Select Safe Mode with networking from the list that follows.
➡ Open the “My Computer (File Explorer)” window by pressing “Win + E” key.
➡ Right click on your drive and click on “Format”.
➡ Select “FAT32” from the “File system” menu.
➡ Uncheck “Quick Format” option.
➡ Click on “Start” button. Windows will Start to Format the drive.
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