My usb is write protected how to remove



1) - Does it have a protect/unprotect slider on the unit ?

2) - Have you tried formatting the drive ?

3) Use regedit to apply a registry tweak to enable/disable write protect.
Format the Drive, or use regedit to change dword value.

Enable and Disabling of USB write protect using regedit

Enabling USB write protect

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies]

“WriteProtect”=dword:00000000

Disabling

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies]

“WriteProtect”=dword:00000001
 

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