Remove Write Protection On USB Pen Drive or Memory Card or iPod

Trouble:

    * You are not able to copy files and folders
    * Not able format the drive, drive is write protected
    * The disk is write protected
    * Remove write protection or use another disk
    * Media is write protected

Sometimes people say that suddenly their storage drive become write protected and they are not able to delete any files and folder and also not able to copy new files and folder to USB drive.

Now you can remove write protection on your portable devices like pen drives, memory cards, iPod and other USB mass storage devices.

Solution:

Write Protection can be applied by the physical lock provided on the card adjuster or sometimes provided on the pen drives, so make sure your drive is not write protected by the lock placed in pen drives.

But even after moving the physical lock for write protection the problem can happen due to some virus action. This happens when some virus or script which applies the registry hack to make any drive write protect when connected to the computer, In that case follow the procedure below to remove write protection from your pen drive.


1. Open Start Menu >> Run, type regedit and press Enter, this will open the registry editor.

2. Navigate to the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies

Note: If the registry key StorageDevicePolicies key does not exist, you will need to create it

Download this batch file called add.bat from here, and double click after download the key will be automatically added to registry.

3. Double click the key WriteProtect in the right pane and set the value to 0 in the Value Data Box and press OK button

4. Exit Registry, restart your computer and then again re-connect your USB pen drive on your computer. That is it, done.

In case you still find an issue, please leave a comment below.