How to Remove Write Protection from a USB Drive

The disk is write-protected. Remove the write-protection or use another disk.

Obviously, the Try again button shown in above error box does nothing significant to fix the hitch. Due to this, you might feel that the disk is not usable and you should throw it to dustbin. But wait! If you’re really going to do so, why not try something to make this disk again this writable. Here are the two fixes you can try to make your USB drive working again:

The Disk Is Write-Protected

FIX 1

1. Press Windows Key + R combination, type put regedit in Run dialog box and hit Enter to open the Registry Editor.

2. In the left pane, navigate here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

1. { If there is no key called StorageDevicePolicies, create it. You do this by right-clicking theHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control key, and selecting New > Keyfrom the menu.
2. Select the StorageDevicePolicies key
3. From the menu select Edit > New > DWORD Value
4. Name the new value WriteProtect
5. Right-click the WriteProtect value and choose Modify
6. In the Value Data: box enter 1
7. Exit the registry editor, and restart your computer

To reverse, just delete the new WriteProtect value (or set the value to 0) and restart the computer. }

In the left pane of this location, right click Control key and select New -> Key. Name the new sub-key so created asStorageDevicePolicies. Now come to the right pane of this sub-key i.e. StorageDevicePolicies, right click and select New-> DWORD Value. Name the newly created DWORD as WriteProtect. In some cases, you might find that this DWORDunder the sub-key already exists and the DWORD has a Value set to 1. Double click on the DWORD to modify its Value data:

4. In the above shown box, change the Value data to 0 from 1. Click OK.