Thursday 28 June 2012

This seems to be the problem of most of us these days and some of our readers who wanted to know the methods how they can remove the Write Protected error from their USB drives like Pen Drives and memory cards.

What is Write Protected error and why it happens?
In the Write Protected error, we can’t write or copy any data in our flash drives and even can’t format the drive.
There are many reasons that cause this problem, let’s see solutions of them.
Solutions:
•    First of all try to locate a small switch (if any, that you may have not noticed) at some place on the drive or memory card reader. This is the prime reason for this error. If there is one, switch it to the other side to turn the protection off.
•    Yes I know this problem is also occurring these days without this switch but not to worry. Just download this helpful software from here and run it to execute a “low-level format” on the drive. This software is quite handy and may take few attempts to actually remove the error.
If that low level format tool does not work, try another one Link.
•    The problem can also be caused by some virus activity so just get it scanned by some updated good anti virus which may solve your problem.
•    BUT if none of the methods listed above solves your problem then your pen drive might have gone corrupted, so just get it replaced.
Hope any of the methods listed above solves your problem.
Update 1:
After the low level format, you may need to “Partition the drive“. Dont worry, partitioning a pen drive means allocating it its File System and Cluster Size that was lost after the Low Level Format.
For that:
  1. Run diskmgmt.msc in Run.
  2. In the disk management window, select the pen drive, right click on it and click on Format.
  3. Now choose the File System and Allocation Unit Size and do not check the boxes below.

Click OK and the drive will be reusable after this.

Update 3 (Solution Working):
Thanks to one of our readers Jim, who let us know about the tool called Neo 9, using which we can easily this write protection problem.
For transcend drive users, try the tool at this link, it has been found to work.

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  2. Hey, there's some dangerous advice here - and it's a bit all over the place. Be especially careful trying out the Neo9 - it appears you have to put it on the drive itself, luckily it had the sense not to format drive C...

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  3. So my USB drive is in G, but i have to format D drive in order to partitioning, right? or not? because when I right-clicked G drive, the format option is freeze. sure it won't delete all my D's data? thanks before for your help

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    1. Please be clear with your question... or else you won't get a clear answer.. its pretty hard to understand what you're trying to ask.....

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  4. IT DIDN'T WORK FOR ME, I HAVE KINGSTON DATA TRAVELER 150 NEW MODEL. THERE'S NO LOCK ON USB SO I TRIED THIS METHOD BUT IT WON'T WORK

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  5. "For transcend drive users, try the tool at this link, it has been found to work."
    i don't know why, my FD can't be access anymore after i used this trick. my transcend FD death now...

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  6. Neo9 worked great.
    I ran it on my desktop. It formatted my USB Flash in FAT32 and broke the write protection.
    I had been trying to do that for weeks, everything failed.
    Neo9 saved me.
    Some programmers rock!!!

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  7. i have San Disk Cruzer Blade USB Device 8GB

    1.the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies.
    The value 'WriteProtect' should be absent or set to '0'.

    2.Write protection ON or OFF button on stick then

    1. Shutdown your computer or laptop
    2. Insert USB Memory Stick into your laptop or Computer
    3. Turn on laptop and then immediately start pressing (F8) key then Advanced Boot Options screen will come up
    4. Select Safe Mode with Command Prompt
    5. After loading files if your USB Memory Stick drive letter is (G) for example then write as
    6. C:\windows\system32>G: and press enter
    7. G:\>format G: and press enter
    8. If ask you (Y/N) then press (Y) and press enter

    3.USB Storage write protection (Fix)
    1) Start > Accessories > Run Command Prompt As Administrator
    2) type > >chkdsk t: /F /X
    (use your own drive letter where f: is)

    4.Low Level Formatter software
    5. disk getory recover
    6. Hard disk washer
    7.partition manager
    8.Active kill disk


    i followed all these files and software and many cmd command but could not remove write protect ....what do i do?

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    1. this trick is useless. it won't wrk

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    2. #4 on here worked for me when no other commands or management did
      There is 8 ways to remove write protection on USB flash drive
      1- Scan your flash drive with updated antivirus
      2- Unlock your memory card or flash drive "some flash drive have lock/unlock button .
      3- Make sure the files you want to move a printable
      4- Fix write protected problem by DOS commands as following :
      - From Windows start menu click on RUN or you can show it by clicking " Windows symbol + R " from your keyboard then write CMD
      - Write this cmd order " diskpart " Then windows open new windows press YES.
      - Write this order " list disk " then click enter ,DOS will show the disk devices in your PC .
      - Write " select disk 2 " then enter .Note select your flash drive or memory card disk label 1 or 2 .
      - Write " attributes disk clear readonly " then enter .

      5- Fix write protected memory card by modifying windows registry by doing the following :
      - Open "RUN" as we mentioned before .Write "regedit" then press enter .Click yes to open windows registry editor .
      - By clicking your mouse from the windows registry editor , try to reach this path "
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies "
      - After you reach this path ,search about this registry key " WriteProtect" then click right click "modify" , you will find key value 1 replace it with zero value then click ok

      6- Update your flash drive firmware " first get chip genius report then copy chip vendor and chip vendor model and search in google about your flash drive firmware .

      7- Try other format programs like " Hp disk format tool " and HDD low level format

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  8. neo download link not working...

    plz help me plz

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  9. Great method to remove protection from pendrives. We are the seller of SanDisk Cruzer force USB pen drives on Webex computer.
    Webex computer

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  10. write protected pendrive formeted

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