If your USB flash drive, SD card or hard drive is write-protected, you can easily remove write protection. You can try running a virus scan, checking and ensuring the device isn’t full, disabling read-only status for a file, using diskpart, editing Windows Registry and formatting the device.
How do I remove write protection on a USB drive?
Disable Write Protection Using Diskpart
- diskpart.
- list disk.
- select disk x (where x is the number of your non-working drive – use the capacity to work out which one it is) …
- clean.
- create partition primary.
- format fs=fat32 (you can swap fat32 for ntfs if you only need to use the drive with Windows computers)
- exit.
How do I remove write protection on my SSD?
To format a write-protected SSD, you need first remove write protection. To do so, you will need a write protection removal tool. As recommended on this page, you can try DiskPart, Registry, or EaseUS CleanGenius to remove write protection first. Then, run a virus cleaner to clean up the disk.
Why can’t I remove write protection USB?
Disk Write Protected FAQ
If your USB flash drive, SD card or hard drive is write-protected, you can easily remove write protection. You can try running a virus scan, checking and ensuring the device isn’t full, disabling read-only status for a file, using diskpart, editing Windows Registry and formatting the device.
How do I remove write protection from a USB drive in Windows 10?
Use Diskpart to Remove Write Protection From USB Drives
- Insert the USB drive into a USB port on your computer.
- Press Windows key+X.
- Select Run.
- Enter diskpart and then select OK. …
- Next to DISKPART>, enter list disk and press Enter.
- In the list of mounted disks, find your USB drive and note the disk number.
How do I remove write protection from online?
Removal of write protection with the Diskpart utility
- list disk and press Enter. (This command displays a list of drives connected to your PC).
- select disk 0 (Replace 0 with the write-protected device number) and hit Enter.
- attributes disk clear readonly and confirm, with Enter. …
- exit (exit from diskpart utility)
Why is my m 2 write protected?
2 NVME drive. This most likely means that the drive has critically failed, and that it has gone into read-only mode to protect your data. You should boot into a Live Linux distro and clone the drive (using dd would work I believe) to get a copy of all of your data.