Step 4:Close the Command Prompt and re-plug your drive. Your USB drive should work just fine. Method 3 of 3 Format the USB drive to remove write protection In most cases, when the USB drive is write-protected,it won’t allow you to format the drive. When you try to format the driv...
Despite the advent of cloud storage, many users still prefer USB drives when it comes to transferring files or backing up data. While in the process of copying files from your Windows computer to your USB drive, you may get an error message that says, “The disk is write protected.” Thi...
And when the format is done, your drive should be ready to go. Click to expand... It's stubbornly "write protected". clean gives this DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. See the System Event Log for more inf...
You are trying to format a new USB drive or SD card, but Windows says that you cannot do this because the 'This Disk is Write Protected' error. This sounds abnormal, but it is something that many Windows users experience. There are multiple causes for this issue and, thankfully, there ...
▶Method 5.Format write-protected USB with AOMEI Partition Assistant If you've tried all the steps above and still can't remove write protection from USB drive, the reason might be corrupted file system. And you need to use a more advanced tool. To settle it, you can try to format th...
also, My windows 7 x64 system keeps saying the drive is 'write protected'. I did follow a thread to add in a registry edit to disable Media Write Protection HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies Look for a key named WriteProtect. and i tried using diskpart...
Thanks but still when i did clean it says it is write protected Upvote 0 Downvote Boogieman_WD Judicious Jul 31, 2014 6,047 2 35,960 Oct 3, 2014 #6 Well I'm sorry to have to say this, but write protection errors often occur because the USB drive ...
appear as it has been mapped with the H: drive. goldfishcrackersFebruary 1, 2009 at 7:17 am the problem with my usb drive is that it works on my xp computers, but not my vista one. i dont think its even recongized. Help?
Hi so i have a patriot 128GB USB flash drive and for some reason it is write protected. windows says that it has a win32 worm conficker virus on it. and right now i cant use my USB flash drive anymore. i dont care about the data in there since i have backups of it so right ...
This way, you can access your drive without damaging its file system. If you have to format the drive and need the data (suppose pictures that were in it) as well, you canrecover data from a formatted drive. After trying all the methods and checks shared in this post, you can get th...