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How To Fix Write Protected USB Flash

Method 1 and Method 2 describe how to remove the write protection from USB drives, SD cards, and other removable storage devices that are showing a write protected error on Windows. Method 1 involves using the diskpart command to clear the readonly attribute. Method 2 modifies the registry to change the value of the WriteProtect DWORD from 1 to 0. The document also recommends using EaseUS Partition Master to format drives, as it is reliable and easy to use.

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How To Fix Write Protected USB Flash

Method 1 and Method 2 describe how to remove the write protection from USB drives, SD cards, and other removable storage devices that are showing a write protected error on Windows. Method 1 involves using the diskpart command to clear the readonly attribute. Method 2 modifies the registry to change the value of the WriteProtect DWORD from 1 to 0. The document also recommends using EaseUS Partition Master to format drives, as it is reliable and easy to use.

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How to fix USB flash, SD memory card, CD disc & Pen

drive write-protected error?

We use removable storage devices a lot on a Windows computer, and some of you
should at least once encounter the issue of the disk malfunction, which is mostly about
"the disk is write protected". When Windows starts to write protect your disk, for
example, a SanDisk 4GB USB flash drive, you can no longer use it anymore until
you remove the write protection. And the fix methods are as follows.

Method 1. diskpart command

Step 1. Open administrative Command Prompt.


Step 2. Type these commands one by one and press Enter key after each:
 diskpart
 list disk
 select disk # (# is the number of USB drive with which you're getting the write-
protected error and is plugged in, see screenshot below)
 attributes disk clear readonly
Step 3. You may now close Command Prompt and re-plug the USB drive and check if the
issue is resolved, by dragging a file to the drive or trying to format in Windows Disk
Management or EaseUS Partition Master coming in the later part.

Method 2. Regedit.exe

Step 1. Press Windows Key + R keys simultaneously, type "regedit" in Run dialog box and
hit Enter to open the Registry Editor.

Step 2. In the left pane, navigate here:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
Step 3. In the left pane of this location, right click Control key and select New -> Key.
Name the new sub-key so created as StorageDevicePolicies. Now come to the right
pane of this sub-key i.e. StorageDevicePolicies, right click and select New -> DWORD
Value. Name the newly created DWORD as WriteProtect. In some cases, you might find
that this DWORD under the sub-key already exists and the DWORD has a Value set to
1. Double-click on the DWORD to modify its Value data.
Step 4. In the above-shown box, change the Value data to 0 from 1. Click OK. Close the
Registry Editor and check if the issue is resolved by dragging a file to the drive or trying
to format in Windows Disk Management or EaseUS Partition Master coming in the later
part.
You can try those methods mentioned above and they may help you remove the Write
Protected  error. Besides, if you have the need to  format a hard drive, memory card, sd
card or external drive, we recommend you a reliable partition software -  EaseUS
Partition  Master, which is a powerful yet user-friendly alternative for Windows 10/8/7
disk management program.

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Step 1. Right-click the hard drive that you want to format and choose "Format partition"
option.
Step 2. Configure the label you want in the Partition Label box.
Step 3. Select the file system type to be created from the "File System" drop-down list.
(FAT/FAT32, NTFS, EXT2/EXT3). If the USB drive is larger than 4GB, you can only
choose FAT32, NTFS or EXT2/EXT3; and if the partition is smaller than 4GB, you can
choose FAT, FAT32, NTFS or EXT2/EXT3.
Step 4. Choose the Cluster Size (512 bytes, 1, 2, 4...64KB) from the drop-down list and
click "OK" to apply the format operation.
Note: Smaller cluster size makes less wasting of disk space. The smaller cluster size is,
the bigger file allocation table (FAT) will be. The bigger the FAT is, the slower the
operating system works with the disk.
Step 5. Click "Apply" to conform to format the storage devices.

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