How to Remove Write Protection from USB Flash Stick Pen Drive?

First, please confirm whether the USB flash drive can working still, then confirm whether the USB pen drive has a write-protect switch. If so, just turn off the write-protect switch.

If it is due to operation error and there have important data in the USB thumb drive, we recommend that find a expert to solve it, so that you can be protected the data.

Here are some write-protected situations and how to resolve them. 

1. Write-protect switch

Whether have the write-protect switch, just turn off it.

2. Antivirus

If your USB memory stick is infected with a virus, it will also be write-protected. You need to fixed by antivirus.

3. Change USB sticks read-write properties

           ✅  Go to My Computer

           ✅  check the removable storage

           ✅  find your USB driver device

           ✅  Right-click on it and click edit, in the pop-up box, sometimes there's an option to Remove write-protection.

4. Using Diskpart

           ✅  Press the Win+R then enter cmd.

           ✅  Enter diskpart in the Run window and press enter.

           ✅  Enter list disk in the Run window and press enter.

           ✅  Enter select disk and choose your device.

           ✅  Enter attributes disk clear readonly and press enter.

5. Registry Editor

This is a little bit difficult, please carefully.

           ✅  A. Open the Registry Editor - enter regedit into the search bar and click Registry Editor

           ✅  B. Open folders in order

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHIN - SYSTEM - CurrentControlSet - Control - StorageDevicePolicies - WriteProtect

           ✅  C. Click the writeprotect and Type a 0 into the "Value data" field and try the USB flash disk again.

Here are just some methods, if still can’t working, you can try formatting the USB flash drive, and make sure that the data had been backed up or the data is not important.

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