Press Windows + R, type “ regedit” in the dialogue box and press Enter.Make a backup of the registry before following the rest of the solution. Deleting registries which you have no knowledge of may render your computer’s performance. Note: Registry editor is a powerful tool. Unplug your USB before starting the solution. Afterward, you will format your USB drive using ‘exfat’ instead of ‘fat32’ and check if this fixes the problem. We will change the value of “WriteProtect” in the registry and see if this fixes the problem. If both the above solutions don’t work, you can try editing some values in the registry. Now check if the problem at hand got solved. Unplug your USB device and plug it again.This command will clear all the ‘readonly’ attributes if they are attached to your disk. Once you have selected the disk, type “ attributes disk clear readonly” and press Enter.Here we have assumed that the disk which is our USB drive causing the problem is disk 1. Once you have identified the disk, type the command “ select disk 1”. Now identify the disk using the disk numbers assigned as shown in the picture above.All the removable devices plugged into your computer will be listed in front of you in the terminal interface. Once in elevated command prompt, type “ diskpart” and press Enter.Press Windows + R, type “ command prompt” in the dialogue box, right-click on the application and select “Run as administrator”.We can use this utility from the command prompt and see if this solves our problem. It is used for creating a multipartition layout for removable devices such as flash drives. Solution 2: Using DiskPart Command UtilityĭiskPart is a command-line disk partitioning utility which has been there in Windows for a while. Change it to the unlocked position, plug it back into the computer and check if the problem got solved. On SD card devices, there will be a visible “white” switch while in USB devices the switch might vary. You can easily check this by removing the USB or SD card from your system and see if there are any switches on the device.
#WRITE PROTECTED USB DRIVE FORMAT WINDOWS 10 SOFTWARE#
Solution 1: Toggling Physical Write Protect Switch offīefore we move on to the software related workarounds of the problem, we can check if the problem only lies with the physical write protect switch being toggled. Note: The methods listed below will probably erase all the data present on your removable device. A bricked USB device cannot be accessed from any computer and making the drive work again is very tedious and impossible in some cases. If after following all the solution the error still persists, you should make sure that the device is not bricked. We have listed all the workarounds for this issue. The workarounds for this problem fall in two categories: either it is a hardware problem where the lock is enabled, or it is a software problem related with the operating system. This error might occur on USB drives, CD drives, and Micro SD cards. The error “this disk is write protected” usually occurs when either the system has locked a removable storage out of the system, or there is a write-protected switch enabled on the removable hardware.
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