HOW TO REMOVE WRITE PROTECTION FROM A USB FLASH DRIVE !! A Basic Trick but useful You should remove it as below: 1 Pull the USB flash drive out of your computers USB port. Check the bottom end and sides of the drive to see if it has a write protection switch. Push the plastic switch into the Unlock position. 2 Insert the USB flash drive back into the USB port. Close the pop-up window that appears and navigate to the Start menu. Select My Computer. 3 Locate the drive letter that corresponds to your USB flash drive in the My Computer window, such as F:\ or D:\. Double-click the drive letter. Attempt to use one of the files on the drive. Right-click one of the files if you still receive a write protection error and select Properties. 4 Navigate to the General tab and remove the check mark from the box labeled Read-Only. Click Apply and then attempt to use the file. 5 Return to the Start menu and click Run. Type Regedit and press Enter. Navigate to the registry folder HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet\Control\Storage DevicePolicies. 6 Check if there is an entry at the right side of the window labeled Write Protect. If the entry is not there Right-click inside the window and choose New D Word. Type Write Protect and press Enter. 7 Double-click the Write Protect entry. Check that the value listed in the text box is 0. If it is not, delete the value and replace it with 0. 8 Close the registry editor and attempt to use any of the files on the USB drive. Return to the My Computer window if you continue to receive a write protection error message. 9 Right-click the drive letter for the USB flash drive and choose Format. Click the drop-down menu named File System and select Fat32. 10 Click Start to format the USB flash drive and remove the write- protection feature.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:59:36 +0000
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