If you’re having trouble writing to your USB drive in Windows 7 because it’s write-protected, there are a few ways to remove the protection and regain full access to the drive.
Some USB drives have a physical switch that enables or disables write protection. Locate the switch on your drive and make sure it’s in the “off” or “unlocked” position. If the switch is already in the correct position, move on to the next method.
Diskpart is a command-line tool in Windows that can be used to manage disks and partitions. Here’s how to use it to remove write protection from your USB drive:
cmd
and press Enter to open the Command Prompt.diskpart
and press Enter to launch the Diskpart tool.list disk
and press Enter to view a list of available disks.select disk X
(replace X with the number of your USB drive) and press Enter.attributes disk clear readonly
and press Enter to clear the read-only attribute.exit
and press Enter to close Diskpart.Your USB drive should now be writable.
If the above methods don’t work, you can try editing the Windows Registry to remove write protection. Be very careful when making changes to the Registry, as mistakes can cause serious problems with your system.
regedit
and press Enter to open the Registry Editor.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
StorageDevicePolicies
key doesn’t exist, right-click Control
, select New
> Key
, and name it StorageDevicePolicies
.New
> DWORD (32-bit) Value
.WriteProtect
and press Enter.WriteProtect
and set its value to 0
.Your USB drive should now be writable.
If you’re still having trouble writing to your USB drive after trying these methods, there may be a more serious issue with the drive itself. In that case, you may need to format the drive or replace it with a new one.
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