How to Remove Write Protection Error In Usb Drive

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.
• 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.

Try these first :
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:
Run diskmgmt.msc in Run.
In the disk management window, select the pen drive, right click on it and click on Format.
Now choose the File System and Allocation Unit Size and do not check the boxes below.
or
Download this program : Hard-Disk-Utils
(AND PLEASE verify you are formatting your USB flash and not anyother drive with important data)
AND.. Verify this problem is your USB by
So to verify if its gone bad or if you cant really write to it. Put it in another computer and see if your problem still happens.
If it still does, its either
1) Theres a switch on it to manually set it to write protect or off
2) The Device has become corrupt.
The computer may say, Write Protect error, cant write to usb flash drive. So at this point, its still detecting the device itself, but whats really happening is "Broken/dead/corrupt". The Computer can only communicate to you, it cant write to it. At this point you can grab your data off the flash drive and I would suggest you do so.

Here's a program you will find useful Repair_v2.9.1.1
And if its a switch you are looking for , its a tiny on inside the plastic near the side to where you insert it to the usb.

Getting more detailed,
, people have seen the following errors when their thumbs drives, memory card etc becomes write protected.
Cannot copy files and folders, drive is write protected
Cannot format the drive, drive is write protected
The disk is write protected
Remove write protection or use another disk
Media is write protected
Some times people say that suddenly their drive become write protected and they are not able to delete any files and folder on the drive and also not able to copy new files and folder to USB portable drive.
Let’s see how can you remove write protection on your portable devices like pen drives, memory cards, iPod and other USB mass storage devices.

Fix:
Write Protection on any portable USB Device can be applied by the physical lock provided on the card adjuster or some times provided on the pen drives, so make sure to make your drive not write protected by moving the lock in right direction.
But even after moving the physical lock for write protection the problem can happen due to some virus action. This happens when some virus or script which applies the registry hack to make any drive write protect when connected to the computer, In that case follow the procedure below to remove write protection from your pen drive.

Registry Trick To Remove Write Protection From Usb Flash Drive (works for few cases only).

According to the mails we had received about this problem, people have seen the following errors when their thumbs drives, memory card etc becomes write protected.
Cannot copy files and folders, drive is write protected
Cannot format the drive, drive is write protected
The disk is write protected
Remove write protection or use another disk
Media is write protected
Some times people say that suddenly their drive become write protected and they are not able to delete any files and folder on the drive and also not able to copy new files and folder to USB portable drive.
Let’s see how can you remove write protection on your portable devices like pen drives, memory cards, iPod and other USB mass storage devices.

Fix:
Write Protection on any portable USB Device can be applied by the physical lock provided on the card adjuster or some times provided on the pen drives, so make sure to make your drive not write protected by moving the lock in right direction.
But even after moving the physical lock for write protection the problem can happen due to some virus action. This happens when some virus or script which applies the registry hack to make any drive write protect when connected to the computer, In that case follow the procedure below to remove write protection from your pen drive.
1. Open Start Menu >> Run, type regedit and press Enter, this will open the registry editor.
2. Navigate to the following path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
3. Double click the key WriteProtect in the right pane and set the value to 0 in the Value Data Box and press OK button
4. Exit Registry, restart your computer and then again re-connect your USB pen drive on your computer. That is it, done.