If you cannot copy, delete or send data from your pen drive or face problem when you format it. It shows en error message like “The disk is write protected. Remove the write protection or use another disk.”
Basically write protection allows a pen drive to keep its content from being changed.
Number of Methods to fix write protection error on pen drive
Best ways to remove write protection error from your pen drive goes here:
Fix Error through Registry Editor
Go to “start” option of your computer and open Registry editor
For this you write a command “regedit” on run
When registry editor open, navigate the location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/StorageDevicePolicies
In right side you will get a value named “WriteProtect“. Just right click and change the hexadecimal value from 1 to 0 and you got it. You have safely remove the write protection error.
Exit registry and restart your Operating System
Then connect your USB on PC
Note: If the value named “WriteProtect“ does not exist then follow same steps which is mentioned above , but change “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE” with “HKEY_CURRENT_USER“.
You do realize fabioveta that converting the disk layout requires the drive to be writable. And since we are talking about drives that are Write Protected that means your app won’t work. Which kinda implies your posting is basic SPAM doesn’t it?
But My SanDisk Ultra USB Flash Drive 256GB, Has 5 Year Warranty, That Per The Web-Sites Current Waranty Info For This Product.: I Just Got Two Of These And During The Time I Was Reading The Readme Files, Then Going To Support Web-Site I Looked At The Forum And Notes On The Write Protect Issue, And Thought About My Seagate 1.5 TB Externable HDD, That I Have The Same Write Protect Issue. But When I Conntacted Seagate about This Write Protect Issue Thay Said That This Is Usualy Caused When Its Connected Up To A Mac Computer And The Drive Is Formated As NTFS. That It, But I WAS Connecting It Up To My Windows Computer Running WinDOWs 7 Pro SP1 OS. Also This Seagate External HDD Has A eSATA Connector And That What I Was Using At the Time Of the Write Protect Issue. I Was Trying To Deleate All The Files On It So I Could Use It As A Backup Drive For My Dusl Boot Setup Of Windows 7 Pro SP1 And Windows 10 Pro. Anyway I Am Reading All The Post About What Other have Tryed On Fixing The Write Protect Issues. I Hope To Be Able To Fix My Seagate HDD External Drive By Using The Posted Fix Trys. Marcus.
have problem with my SANDISK,USB FLASH-DRIVE(16GB) that whenever i insert or plug it with some computer and try to write(CUT,COPY etc) it shows an error that THE DISK IS WRITE PROTECTED…can any one please suggest that why it is displaying such error…at first i think that this is problem with my pc but know the essue is same for all computer…
VERY SIMPLE WITH YOUR COMPUTER RIGHT CLICK ON YOUR FLASH DRIVE …GOTO PROPERTIES THEN TO HARDWARE AND SELECT THE GENERIC FLASH DISC OR THE MULTI THEN CLICK OK IT WORKS PERFECTLY WELL
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After following the whole process, I have not seen StorageDevicePolicies after “Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control” so, what should I do to format my 8 GB SanDisk Pen Drive?
Here is how to Remove The Write Protection From A USB Drive
1- Press the WIN+R keys together to launch the Run dialog box. When it opens up, type in regedit and hit the enter key.
2- As next, you need to navigate to the following path as shown in the screenshot given below:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet -> Control
3- Now, under the Control key, you need to look for a key named StorageDevicePolicies.
If there is one already, you can go straight away to step 5.
Else, right click on the key Control, click on New and then on Key.
4- Name the newly created key as StorageDevicePolicies.
5- Click on the newly created StorageDevicePolicies key in the left window pane, and in the right window pane, you need to create a new 32-bit DWORD value. For that, right click anywhere on an empty space in the right window pane, click on New, and then on DWORD (32-bit) value.
6- Give the newly created DWORD value the name WriteProtect and double click on it to edit its value data. To disable the write protection from the USB drive, set the value in the Value data field to 0.