How to remove write protection from Pen Drive in windows 8

Recently one of our readers mailed me regarding, removing the write protection from the pen drive. So I thought to make a post on it, actually there are many working ways and methods in which you can do this, here in this post I am listing out all the working methods to remove write protection from the pen drive, check them one after another and you can easily do it.

Normally when a Pen drive is write protected it will show an error something like this when you try to write your pen drive.

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1. Editing the Registries to Remove write protection from USB drive 

Follow the steps one after another to more write protection from the Pen drive.

1. Press CTRL + R to open the RUN box,
2. Type REGEDIT and hit enter
3. Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Control > StorageDevicePolicies
and hit enter.
4. Give a double click on the WRITE PROTECT and a box will open in that enter the Value as 0 and press OK button
5. Now restart your PC and again connect your USB pen drive to your computer and verify.
That’s it hopefully it will work.

Note: - In case you can’t find the “StorageDevicesPolicies” in the Registry settings follow the steps below
1. Open your Notepad and copy the below code to it
cd\

reg add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies" /t Reg_dword /v WriteProtect /f /d 1
2. Now save this as add.bat (it should be with .bat extension or else it won’t work) and run it.
3. Now continue the above process and it will work fine.

2. Formatting the Pen drive before OS boots to Remove Write protection

Follow the below steps carefully to remove write protection from the USB storage drives

1. Shut down your PC/LAPTOP
2. Connect your USB drive to your PC/LAPTOP and turn it ON. While the system is booting pres F8 continuously and advanced booting option screen will open.
3. In that select Safe mode with command prompt.
4.  After the files loads, in the command prompt navigate to the drive of your pen drive.
At first it will look something like this C:\windows\system32>
now let your drive letter is “H”. Then you have to type C:\windows\system32>H:
and hit enter
5. Now type
H:\>format H:
it will again ask you for confirmation of Yes or No (Y/N). Type Y and hit Enter.

By doing this your pen drive will get completely formatted, which will remove the write protection from it.

3. Using Command prompt to remove Write protection from Sandisk pen-drive

Follow the below mentioned steps to remove write protection from the PEN DRIVES

1. Press CTRL + R and open the RUN box.

2. Type CMD to open the command prompt window
3. In the command prompt type DISKPART and hit enter
4.  A new command window will open, in that again type LIST DISK and hit Enter
5. Now again type “Attributes disk clear read-only” and hit enter

You can even try this method to format your Pen drive completely and remove write protection from it.

4. Formatting the Pen Drive to Remove write protection from the pen drive

Here is the step by step procedure to remove the write protection from the pen drive

1. Open your desktop and give a Right click on the MY COMPUTER icon and select MANAGE from the list.
2. From the left panel select the DISK MANAGEMENT under STORAGE
3. Now give a Right click on our Pen drive and select format from it.
4. Conform it by clicking again on the YES and finally click OK to format


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all the above methods are tested on Pen drives from all the branded companies and they are working perfectly. If all the above mentioned methods don’t work for you before leaving a comment check each and every step carefully. If you face any problem still with your problem just post your Pen drive company/model along with error you are getting so that we can assist you.