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How to remove write protection of pendrive? - Akshu - Nov 17, 2015

My pendrive is write protected. How to remove write protection ??please tell me
When i cooy to pendrive "write protected" error show and then i cant copy, cant delete previous data in pendrive, cant format through dos,linux,fat32,ntfs and also changing regetry key n all these i try but not work. And think this is because of virus.
this pendrive contains Usb Hacking software.
So please tell me how to repaire this pendrive or How remove pendrive write protection ??please help me


* - Kyle17 - Nov 17, 2015

There should be some write protection button on it or something you can slide? like the SD card?
I haven't heard of this before but it might be something like that.
[img]http://i.fixya.net/uploads/images/mariolands_23.jpg[/img]

While Googling, I also found this, maybe something that might help?:





* - Akshu - Nov 18, 2015

There is nothing like that. Only pendrive is write protected.
if u know tell me one Formating software that can format pendrive in any critical condition or corrupt pendrive n please send link if u know


* - Kyle17 - Nov 19, 2015

"Formating software that can format pendrive in any critical condition or corrupt pendrive"
If it's locked, you wont be able to format at all, not even edit any of the files...

I found:
http://ccm.net/faq/3438-usb-flash-drive-locked-unable-to-write
  • "Right-click on the USB or a folder in the USB, and then uncheck the "Read Only" option."

  • "As a first step, verify that the USB does not have a small switch (normally "hold" or "locked" written on it) disabling write mode. Unlock it and try to write. "

  • If it is a transcend USB: " JetFlash Online Recovery tool to repair Transcend USB keys" Transcend Recovery Tool

  • Last resort: "As a last resort, you can always try formatting the USB key."
    Format a USB flash drive


Also I found: http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/how-to-remove-write-protection-of-usb-mass-storage-with-no-visible-lock-unlock.177267/
Quote:One more thing to check:
> Click Start->Run, enter: regedit
> Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control
> Does sub-key StorageDevicePolicies exist? If yes, right click to delete this sub-key"

Quote:other comments: "hmm; how does the Disk Mgr show the layout (not the drive letters)?
If it doesn't show Partition, then we need to reformat the device.


Hope this helps. A quick Google should turn up results for this sort of thing.
BTW I Googled for "USB locked"


* - Akshu - Mar 11, 2016

I have done all above method for removing write protection.
i think pendrive is corrupted.
tell me how recover corrupt pendrive to remove write protection
please help me some to solve this prblm


* - Akshu - Sep 5, 2016

I had done all procedure to remove write protection, but nothing happen.
somebody tell me how to remove write protection.
help me