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These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience. In the File pane on the right, right-click in an empty space, point to New , then select Key. In the Folders pane, select StorageDevicePolicies. Name the value WriteProtect and press Enter.
If you use Windows 7, the process to edit the Windows Registry to remove write protection is a little different. In the Run dialog box, enter regedit and press Enter. Double-click Start. In the dialog box, enter 3. Close the Registry Editor. When a USB drive or SD card is write-protected, you can't change files on the media; you can only view them.
On write-protected media, you can read and copy files, but you can't write to and delete files. Your USB drive and SD cards may become write protected because of a virus, or because the lock switch on the media has been enabled.
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Thanks for your feedback. Click on your Start Menu and type cmd in the Search for programs and files field. It should show up at the top of your Start menu. Right-click on it and select Run as Administrator. You should now see the Command Line Utility, which looks like the following. Diskpart is a disk-partitioning tool that is built into Windows and is accessible through the Command Line Utility.
With it, we can change the values associated with your USB drive. Read more - How to remove write protection. You should see a table something like the one below.
Be very careful from here on out! You can see that if you start working with the wrong disk, things can get ugly quicker than when the lights come on at last call. Most important is the first line Current Read-only State: Yes. This lets us know that, indeed, the flash drive is write protected. If it works, that will be confirmed by the line Disk attributes cleared successfully. Double-check this by trying to copy a small file to your USB drive.
If it works, great. Software utilities. Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit 26 people found this reply helpful. Is that the way it is supposed to be, or is the alternative values for WriteProtect in order to enable file deletion?
Step 3. Type list disk and press Enter to view the available disks. Step 4. Type select disk 2 and hit Enter. Replace 0 with the write-protected device number. Step 6. Once the write protection removal process completes, type exit to quit diskpart.
After this, restart your PC and check if you can access and use the saved data on your USB or hard drive again. If you don't consider yourself a pro-computer user and you're not familiar with command-lines, don't worry. There are graphical-based solutions to help you remove write-protection from your hard drives, USB drives, and even SD cards. EaseUS CleanGenius is one of these tools that helps you fix aforementioned issues on your drives without knowing a thing about command-line.
Step 3: Select the device that is write-protected and click Disable to remove the protection. This is an advanced-level procedure, and if you aren't sure what you're doing, you should probably not use this method.
A wrong tweak to your computer's registry can cause many issues. Click Current Control Set and then click on Control. Step 5.
Then, click OK. When BitLocker is enabled on your hard drive partition, it protects your files with its encryption feature. To make changes to a BitLocker partition, you need to remove the protection from it first.
After this, with BitLocker off, you can manage data on your USB partition and save new files to it again.
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