How To Remove Write Protection From Usb Windows 7

Hello Navindra,

Thank you lot for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

Based on the description, it appears that you are facing problems with the flash bulldoze every bit you lot are getting an fault message "Write- Protected".

Write protection is a feature that can be found on many dissimilar types of media. When write protection is turned on, you will be able to view the information on the disk or USB drive, only y'all volition not be able to write or transfer data to it. Write protection is a protective element that will forbid accidental deletion of of import data.

I would suggest you to follow the methods given below and bank check if that helps:

Method 1:
I would suggest yous to follow the steps and check if the result persists.

a. Open up 'My estimator'.

b. Right click on USB drive and select 'properties' .

c. Uncheck the option ' Read only ' if it is marked.

Note: Click on yeah when the option pops up saying "Apply changes to subfolders and files writing to this folder"

d. Click on ' Apply ' and 'Ok'.

e. Try to delete the files.

Method 2: I would likewise propose you to follow the steps to edit the registry to disable the write protected error and check if the consequence persists.

You tin remove write protection from your usb pendrive using the below method:

a. Open start carte and select run. On the runline, type regedit and press e nter . This wil open the registry editor .
b. Navigate to the following path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Arrangement\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
Notation:

If the registry primal StorageDevicePolicies does not be, yous will need to create information technology manually.
c. Double click the cardinal WriteProtect in the correct window and set the value to 0 in the Value
Information Box and press OK button
d. Restart your computer and endeavour deleting the files from USB flash drives.

Note: Important this section, method, or task contains steps that tell yous how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, brand sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry earlier yous alter information technology. And so, y'all can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more than information about how to dorsum up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the commodity in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

For more information about how to dorsum upward and restore the registry, follow the steps every bit in the commodity:

Back up the registry

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Back-up-the-registry

Hope this data is helpful. Please do allow us know if you need farther assist with Windows.

Regards,

Ashish Sondhi

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Click on your Outset Carte du jour and type cmd in the Search for programs and files field. It should testify upwardly at the tiptop of your Commencement menu. Right-click on it and select Run every bit Administrator. You should at present encounter the Command Line Utility, which looks like the post-obit.

Type in the command DISKPART and hit Enter. Diskpart is a deejay-partitioning tool that is built into Windows and is accessible through the Command Line Utility. With it, we can modify the values associated with your USB bulldoze. Read more - How to remove write protection

Now type LIST Disk and hitEnter. Yous should see a table something similar the ane below. It shows two disks beingness available: the Hd Drive (HDD) every bit Disk 0, and the USB wink bulldoze as Disk 1. We know that the USB wink bulldoze is Deejay one because it is much smaller than Disk 0 at but 7441 MB versus 298 GB. Be very careful from here on out! You can come across that if you first working with the incorrect disk, things tin can become ugly quicker than when the lights come on at last call.

At this point, type SELECT Deejay i and hit Enter. You lot'll be rewarded with the knowledge that Disk one is at present the selected disk. Type in ATTRIBUTES DISK, and Diskpart will tell you what you want to know well-nigh your flash drive. Most important is the first line Current Read-simply Country: Yes. This lets us know that, indeed, the wink bulldoze is write protected.
To remove the write protection with Diskpart, type the control ATTRIBUTES Deejay CLEAR READONLY. If it works, that will be confirmed by the line Disk attributes cleared successfully.Double-cheque this by trying to copy a small file to your USB drive. If it works, not bad. If y'all still get the write-protect fault, it'south time to bring out the big guns. Software utilities.

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I did fix

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Organisation\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies\ WriteProtect=0 ,

and I indeed am able to write to the USB drive, so that's OK.

Merely I cannot delete files on the UBS bulldoze (so with WriteProtect=0 the deejay is 'Delete protected'), but after removing the WriteProtect- key I can delete files again. Is that the style it is supposed to exist, or is the alternative values for WriteProtect in order to enable file deletion?