How To Remove Write Protection From Usb Drive In Windows 10

Hello Navindra,

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Based on the clarification, it appears that you are facing issues with the flash drive as y'all are getting an error bulletin "Write- Protected".

Write protection is a characteristic that tin can be found on many different types of media. When write protection is turned on, you will be able to view the information on the disk or USB drive, but yous volition not exist able to write or transfer information to it. Write protection is a protective element that will prevent adventitious deletion of important information.

I would suggest you to follow the methods given beneath and cheque if that helps:

Method 1:
I would advise you to follow the steps and check if the issue persists.

a. Open 'My estimator'.

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

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

Notation: Click on yes when the choice pops upwards saying "Apply changes to subfolders and files writing to this folder"

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

e. Effort to delete the files.

Method two: I would as well suggest you to follow the steps to edit the registry to disable the write protected error and check if the issue persists.

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

a. Open beginning menu 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\Organisation\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
Note:

If the registry key StorageDevicePolicies does not exist, you volition need to create it manually.
c. Double click the cardinal WriteProtect in the correct window and gear up the value to 0 in the Value
Data Box and press OK button

d. Restart your computer and try deleting the files from USB flash drives.

Annotation: Of import this department, method, or task contains steps that tell you lot how to alter the registry. However, serious bug might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry earlier you alter information technology. Then, yous can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more than information almost how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

For more information about how to support and restore the registry, follow the steps as in the article:

Back upward the registry

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

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Click on your Get-go Card and type cmd in the Search for programs and files field. It should show up at the top of your Start menu. Right-click on information technology and select Run as Ambassador. Y'all should now encounter the Command Line Utility, which looks similar the following.

Type in the control DISKPART and hit Enter. Diskpart is a disk-partitioning tool that is built into Windows and is accessible through the Command Line Utility. With it, we tin change the values associated with your USB drive. Read more - How to remove write protection

Now type List DISK and hitEnter. You should see a table something like the i below. Information technology shows two disks being available: the Hard Deejay Bulldoze (HDD) equally Disk 0, and the USB flash drive as Disk 1. We know that the USB flash drive is Disk one because information technology is much smaller than Disk 0 at just 7441 MB versus 298 GB. Be very conscientious from here on out! You tin can see that if you start working with the wrong disk, things can become ugly quicker than when the lights come on at last call.

At this point, type SELECT Deejay 1 and striking Enter. Yous'll exist rewarded with the knowledge that Deejay 1 is now the selected deejay. Type in ATTRIBUTES Deejay, and Diskpart volition tell you what y'all want to know about your flash drive. Most important is the first line Current Read-only State: Yes. This lets us know that, indeed, the flash drive is write protected.
To remove the write protection with Diskpart, type the command ATTRIBUTES Deejay CLEAR READONLY. If information technology works, that will be confirmed by the line Disk attributes cleared successfully.Double-check this by trying to copy a pocket-size file to your USB bulldoze. If information technology works, great. If you lot still get the write-protect error, it'due south fourth dimension to bring out the big guns. Software utilities.

Use The "Apacer USB 3.0 Repair" tool has two functions – format and and restore

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I did set

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

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

But I cannot delete files on the UBS drive (and then with WriteProtect=0 the deejay is 'Delete protected'), only after removing the WriteProtect- key I tin delete files once more. Is that the way it is supposed to be, or is the alternative values for WriteProtect in order to enable file deletion?