How To Remove Write Protection from Computer / USB Flash Drive

Struggling to copy a file to your USB drive in Windows? Or did you try editing some files, but all efforts could not avail? Your storage write may be safeguarded.

This will result in an error notification such as “disk is write-protected” on your USB stick or SD cards. Even if you attempt to send certain files to your PC, you will still encounter this error.

Removing Write-Protection From Computer / USB Flash Drive

To fix the write-safeguarding issues with your PC, you will have to read this write-up further. You will encounter certain measures that you can take and remove write- safeguarding from your PC.

Subsequently, you can safely use your flash drive or SD card and carry out other unrestricted operations.

What Write- Safeguarding is all About

Write- safeguarding is simply a situation where a ‘hardware’ or ‘software’ prevents new data from overwriting old information.

This entails that you can only read the data, but can’t make any modification or remove it. Write- safeguarding can be physical as well as virtual.

However, if you have to use write-safeguarding, be sure not to overwrite or remove them mistakenly.

Write- Safeguarding Removal Tips

There are many ways to effectively remove write- safeguarding from your PC or Mac.

Among them is a toggle switch, disable BitLocker, use a diskpart command, Windows registry, third parties, and so on.

• Toggling Switch

That’s one way to deactivate writ- safeguarding, only if your PC has a toggle switch. Most file storage devices have a visible switch used in activating or disabling writ- safeguarding.

Now, select the USB drive you made effort to overwrite, then search for the changeover, it is often situated on the side of the PC. Some of the switches are labeled “Lock” while others are labeled “Write Protect”.

Rotate the changeover to the other side, restore it, and then move your data to the drive again. Once you have succeeded, you can be confident that your issue is solved.

Simply try not to allow the switch to move in the wrong direction.

• Deactivate Bitblocker

From the moment Windows 7 was lunch; BitLocker was customized in OS with encryption to keep your documents secure.

By default, BitLocker is deactivated, but when you activate it, it will secure your data with its gorgeous encryption.

However, before you can change a BitLocker, you first need to deactivate the write-safeguarding.

Follow these procedures and learn the way you can disable write-safeguarding on your USB drive.

• You must first open the ‘File Explorer and right-click on ‘BitLocker Partition or ‘USB drive’. Once you have done this, you will now pick ‘Manage BitLocker’ and proceed.
• Click on the ‘locked device’, after which you will turn off your ‘BitLocker’.
• You will require exercising some patients for the BitLocker to decrypt by itself.
• Once the BitLocker has turned off, then you manage the file on your USB compartment and save new files on it again.

 

• Use a Diskpart Command

The primary objective of using the diskpart is to change the registry key of your PC. This is possible on the internal drive, external drive, USB drive, and SD card.

But before proceeding with the deletion process, you first need to check the space of your flash drive. Once you have confirmed the space limit, you can proceed with inserting the USB drive into the PC jar.

Check out how you can do that below.

• In that respect are three available ways you can launch the ‘command prompt’. You may press the R key on your window, type “CMD” or search for “Command Prompt” on the start button. When access is denied, right-click on the command prompt and select “Run as Administrator”.
• In the space of the command prompt, type «diskpart» and press Enter. After that, you type “list disk” and press enter.
• A range of memory disks will be displayed on your screen as disk 0, disk 1, and so on. You may have trouble identifying your USB stick. Check the size of these memory drives and compare them with your flash drive, you will notice the number that represents your flash drive falls below.
• Now you select the number under which your USB stick is located and then press Enter. For instance, “Disc 2” where 2 is your drive. Next, you replace 0 using the properly protected device number.
• You must run ‘ attributes disk clear randomly ‘ and press Enter.
• Practice some patients to complete write protection, then exit with the “Enter” option.
• Reboot your PC and try to write it to your USB stick again. If it succeeds, then you’re through with it.

 

• Windows Registry

This particular method is for those with a good degree of expertise in the computer. That’s because if you make a mistake, you may ruin all the performance of your PC.

However, if you still want to do it yourself, then follow the instructions provided below.

• Now enter your flash player into your computer and type «Regedit» in the Cortana search. Once you have done this, you will still need to select “Registry Editor” and click Open.
• You will see the “right-facing chevron” with a symbol next to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE” in the left sidebar and then click on it. The directory structure of the folder will expand.
• Select the “Current Control Set” and then click on a control.
• You will see “Storage Device Strategies” click to change the DWORD value to 0 and then press Enter.
• At this point, you will need to get out of the registry editor and reboot your computer.
• Wait a couple of minutes for the system to reboot, and then check the accessibility of your device.

The third-party should be the last option for you, which is if you cannot execute any of the methods listed above.

However, you must ask a professional to do write-protection, deletion for you, so that you do not put your PC at risk.

But if you are sufficiently competent and confident, you may follow any other method above and successfully remove write-safeguarding on your computer.