How to disable write protection on a cruzer glide 3.0 flash drive

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I copied the file to a USB flash drive and the light was turned off. I turn on the computer, there is write protection on the flash drive. Formatting is not possible. Give me some advice

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If your USB drive has write protection and can’t be formatted, try the following:

  1. Check for a physical switch on the drive that might enable write protection.
  2. Use Diskpart in Command Prompt to clear the readonly attribute:
  • Type diskpart, list disk, select disk X, and attributes disk clear readonly.
  1. Use the Registry Editor to set WriteProtect to 0 under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies.
  2. Run CHKDSK to check for errors with chkdsk X: /f.

If these steps don’t help, the USB drive might be failing.

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