Pen Drive Write Protected Problem

Asked By rabbi 20 points N/A Posted on - 09/20/2011

My pen drive shows write protected ?

I did not transfer any data. How can I solve this problem ?

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Answered By alfredissac 0 points N/A #125327

Pen Drive Write Protected Problem

Hi,

Write protection problem on any USB can be applied physically. That means they won't be able to delete data or copy files to this USB.

 

 

This will be the error you might be encountering. If your USB is provided with physical lock remove the lock to its right side. If your device is not having any kind of locks, then it might be affected by a virus which applies some registry protection which prevents you from copying files.  To overcome this problem follows these steps :

1. Start menu << Run << type regedit<< enter which pops up a registry editor window after that go to the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE<<SYSTEMCurrentControlSet<<ControlStorageDevicePolicies

After this, click the key writes protected which you can see in the right pane and set the value to zero in the box; 

This will solve your problem.

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Answered By shahincis 0 points N/A #125329

Pen Drive Write Protected Problem

Dear,

My assumption is that it sounds likely the drive is completely corrupt. Low level format can be used and the drive can be used. One suitable format tool Download OnBelay, install and use it to try and low-level format the drive.

If it doesn't work, better buy a new one.

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