Jan162012

How can I remove the write protection from my SanDisk pen drive?

shubham gupta asks:

When I try to delete items from my SanDisk pen drive, it shows a message saying that the drive is write protected. How to remove that write protection of pen drive?


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  • Anonymous January 16, 2012

    1. Go to run, type regedit and press enter.
    2. Navigate to the path:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlStorageDevicePolicies
    If the registry key StorageDevicePolicies does not exist, you will need to create it manually.
    3. Highlight StorageDevicePolicies, and then create a New DWORD (32-bit) Value named as WriteProtect.
    4. Double click the key WriteProtect in the right window and set the value to 0 in the Value Data Box and press OK button
    5. Restart your computer and see if this help

    if there is no important file, try to format
    Click on Start.
    Type 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.
    Click on OK.

    or
    1. Start > search bar -> CMD and press enter
    2. type< diskpart
    3. type< list disk
    4. type< select disk # (# is the number of the USB key)
    5. type< attributes disk clear readonly

    perhaps this hotfix can help also
    http://www.makeuseof.com/answers/remove-write-protection-sandisk-pen-drive/

    perhaps take ownership
    http://www.rizonesoft.com/2011/ownership-shell/

    You can find two reg files below if you are on xp or vista
    http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-disable-write-access-to-usb-hard-disk-and-flash-key-drives/

    • shubham January 17, 2012

      may i know the correct format of writing in cmd..

  • FIDELIS January 17, 2012

    Hello are you sure your drive is not locked by a switch?  If it is, try unlocking it by moving switch.  If that is not the case, you could try the following:

    http://www.troublefixers.com/remove-write-protection-on-usb-pen-drive-or-memory-card-or-ipod/

  • shubham January 17, 2012

    No guys no idea works.

    • Hitesh Chavda January 25, 2012

      Try to format from other pc
      try to format with HP disc format utility.

      if nothing works your card may be dameged.

  • FIDELIS January 25, 2012

    Hello, you could try the second solution in the sandisk forum:

    http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1102/related/1/session/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xMzI3NDc1NDAxL3NpZC80UW1QSF9Paw==

    If nothing else works, you could try formatting pendrive with gparted:

    http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

    Did you by any chance checked the pendrive in another computer?

  • Sanjeevyadavsaifai March 18, 2012

    how can remove write protection my sandisk

  • guest March 30, 2012

    it does not work 

  • Akishan Kishan April 16, 2012

    these step is successfull to   remove write-protect from usb 
    plz suggest effective step to remove write-protect from usb 

                thank you

  • pankaj kumar tiwari April 24, 2012

    i have been facing a probleme with my pen drive write-protection. i should get a solution for removing it from my usb.

  • sandeep kumar May 6, 2012

    When I try to delete items from my SanDisk pen drive, it shows a message saying that the drive is write protected. How to remove that write protection of pen drive?

    • ha14 May 6, 2012

      1.Go to Run->regedit
      2.MyComputer->HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SYSTEM->CurrentControlSet->Control -> StorageDevicePolicies
      3.Delete the StorageDevicePolicies in Your Registry.

      • siva May 20, 2012

        no use for this solution

  • BALAJI K R May 9, 2012

    Hi I have a SanDisk cruzer blade 8GB pendrive which has got write protected without my knowledge, now it is not able to access it so please help me out to overcome this problem.

    • ha14 May 9, 2012

      Hi
      Start > Run “cmd”
      type–> diskpart
      type–> list volume
      type–> select volume #
      type–> attributes disk clear readonly
      type–> x:\>attrib -r /s /d (X= USB drive)

      1. Open start menu, in the search bar type REGEDIT and press enter. This will open the registry editor.
      2. Navigate to the following path:
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies

      Note: If the registry key StorageDevicePolicies does not exist, you will need to create it manually.

      3. Highlight StorageDevicePolicies, and then create a New DWORD (32-bit) Value named as WriteProtect.
      4. Double click the key WriteProtect in the right window and set the value to 0 in the Value Data Box and press OK button
      5. Restart your computer and try copying files into your USB drives.

      • Hitesh May 11, 2012

        This suggest is not worked plz help my new sendisk pendrive is write protected

  • gupta May 10, 2012

    I’ve had some luck with the following:

    Open up a command prompt. Type “diskpart” and press enter. At the “DISKPART >” prompt, type “list volume”. This will show you a list of your drives and a corresponding number. Assuming your flash drive is listed as “5″, type “select volume 5″. Then type “attributes volume clear readonly” and press enter.

    That will remove the “readonly” setting from the flash drive’s volume. Hopefully it helps.

  • aditya May 13, 2012

    how can i remove the write protection from my sandisk pen drive?

  • anukul May 19, 2012

    i can’t format my sundisk pendrive due to write prtection

  • Amol deshmukh May 21, 2012

    tanx dude

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