How to Fix “the Disk is Write Protected” Error in Flash Drive
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Hi, I found many flash drive which have small switch that enables write protection, check your flash drive. Is there any switch if found then disable it and the write protection error will we fixed.
You can fix write protection error from removable drive by changing its registry key value. Follow the steps.
Step 1: – Go to Run and type regedit and hit on Enter.
Step 2: – Find the registry key storage device policy.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Currentcontrolset\control\storatedevicepolicies
Step 3: – On the right side of registry pane find the write protection option and change its value from 1 to 0.
Step 4: – Exit from registry and restart the computer.
Step 5: – Pug-in the flash drive and write file in it.In this situation you need to create New Storage policies and then assign its value from 1 to 0.
There are many ways to fix write protection error. Follow the steps given bellow.
- The files you want to move, it must be printable.
- Scan your removable flash drive by an updated anti-virus.
- You can use Diskpart to resolve this issue. By accessing command prompt.
- check for lock or unlock button on your flash drive.
- If these steps did not fix the issue then use diskmgmt widows built in utility.
Disk Management utility is a windows built in utility. I found a well written article you can go through it.
How to Access Disk Management UtilityDisk write protection error obstruct you to write any thing in the disk. But you can easily remove it from the disk. Simply read this article and follow all mentioned steps. I also performed the discussed steps and removed write protection error from my flash drive.
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