How to Remove Write Protection from USB Drive in Windows
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- How to Remove Write Protection from USB Drive in Windows
So you have a USB or Micro SD write-protected in Windows 10 or Windows 11 I will show you how to remove the Write Protected drive. Remember their is always a chance your device is broken and also remember that some of these methods will format the drive, so if you have data on the drive that you are trying to recover, be careful on what methods you try.
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Can you use this information for dvd
@Britec09 I wish I had thought about you, before breaking 3 sd card mini's about 3 weeks ago, I don't know how or why they did that protected mode, I have nothing to hide
Sir i can't do
My pendrive is not able to format in cmd,mini tool, Rufus etc
Whenever I try it automatically ejects it and don't allow it to format it
I have tried this but it not work, can't format or delete volume
Thanks so much, mine worked, 😌,you earned a subscriber
Thank you for this! The last way of reformatting without downloading software worked as my USB was stuck with write protection.
The first command line solution worked for me so far.
Thank you!
Hey mate your a Effing Genius man been struggling with my 1tb hard drive and i used the cmd prompt followed your steps now I have full access to it again! Thanks alot brother
are u a bot how tf theres no operations tab
From 10 videos I watched, this is the only one which helped me! thanks a lot.
Thank you, deleting all partitions and creating a new one works for me.
Thank you sir! Your video helped me. I’ve been trying to remove the write protection for over a month. I was able to get it done with the miniTool option. Finally😅
Thank you! It helped me with my USB! Excellent video!
You're a life saver sir! the first method worked for me!
Did everything no result 😔😢
Thank you so much the diskart part actually fixed my usb stick.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I've been chasing that solution for months! I got mine messed up working with Linux. Fixed now!
Great video! Have a Samsung 64 g USB with Linux OS bootable that only used 2 gigs.
I used redit to delete the file, then cmd diskpart to clean and complete format now I'm using the drive as a recovery drive.
Thank you.
How
I get this from the command prompt:
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 information.
yes, me too, tell me if you get any solution
@@thetechistview3180 it was corrupted, had to bin it :(
THX so much for making this you have saved me!
Very informative video Brian, many thanks.
Very welcome
@@Britec09nope for my usb drive sandisk 32 bb drive nothing works. I have so many usb drives and all work fine on any laptop but this drive doesn’t work at all. I can access all data on that drive and watch movies from it too but no software or diskpart works. I tried a low level format utility as shown in several videos but nothing worked 😂. It says disk I/O errors on format and files and partitions are still there. I think sandisk has a certain problem on usb drives. Don’t let it fill up too much or you will loose access to the drive permanently. It permanently turns off write ability on it.
after so many videos, ur video First method worked for me thanks Mr.
A usb became write protected while plugged into my arlo pro base unit, I can read off it but not format it, I'm going to give this ago when I get home Brian, cheers big fella !!
Are you home?
@@Suspended_ Not yet!
I thought i had destroyed by usb and the last piece of software saved me thank you so much
Mini Tool worked for me! many thanks for this video mate!!
Command prompt worked perfect ! Thanks big guy! 👍
Very helpful video. The last method helped formatting my usb stick... Thank you
Many thanks Britec. 1 hour later after trying nearly everything to clear "write protect" on a usb drive, then MiniTool Partition Wizard removes "write protect" in less than 5 seconds. Cheers Mate.
how? free version??
Marketing bs
As the video notes indicate the write protection could be the result of the flash drive failing and reverting to read only mode to allow you to recover your data off the device. I have had several flash drives fail like this.
I agree, that is the main cause.
Yep, and then destruction of the device is necessary as you cannot wipe a read only device.
How do you destroy a flash drive so the contents cannot be read? Smashing it or blocking the port
@@jakemeals pull the circuit board from the plastic case and run it through a paper shredder.
@@jakemeals Burn it.
Hey man you’ve just earned a new follower mini tool helped thanks a lot😊
The solution whereby we use diskpart, clean, create partition primary, and format worked for me!
Thanks this is just what i needed, I'll try this 👍
Welcome
This is the only video that actually helped me out
Thank you. Diskpart helped. USB is not write protected right now, so I can format it.
Thank you Britec09, now my USB drive back to normal 👍
Glad I could help
Thanks, Jim or Tim for the video I have a Sdcard that will not work in my system I cannot read it or write to it, or format it, and windows won't allow me to format it and the SDcard is not Locked I will try your method to see if I can get it working it's a 32gig SD Card from Sandisk, thankyou!
Really other people were just maniupulating for the audience for the views but you helped me sir thank you
Thank you sir for this amazing explanation. But if you can also explain how to format a cd that is write protected? Thanks again!
Whenever I have a stubborn USB drive that just won't format or un-partition with Windows 10/11 Disk Management, I use my Ventoy USB drive and an old laptop and boot into Hiren’s BootCD based on Windows 10 PE x64. There is a specific type of disk management software included within called AOMEI Partition Assistant that never fails to format, or de-partition any USB flash drive or SD/microSD card
After all this time, finally i found you, thank u 😊
I didn't have the Write Protection in my registry. Once i added it I could format the USB drive. Thanks mate
Thank you very much. The registry edit worked!
It helped. Thanks man, may God bless you.
I had the exact same issue you had, on Windows 11. Partition Wizard saved the day. Thanks for the video!
Same here
I just created a partition and everything worked well 👍
I installed the software and I could delete all the partitions, thank you.
Excellent video, thank you.
Hi, Brian. I've managed to clear a few write protected USB thumb drive with diskpart clear all, but it's always nice to see other options, so thanks.
Thanks for watching
I tried the diskpart as admin but nothing
@@watup110875 It worked for me a few times, but I had to use a partition program on the rest.
@@OlettaLiano that was only 3 I couldn't fix, sad didn't have fund for paid, most free I did try failed like the rest, but ol well, more tools for next I guess lol
@@watup110875 Did you try MiniTool Partition Wizard free version? I need to get back to GTA 5 because there's people to runover and cops to guy fight with. LOL
Thank you the last method works perfectly ❤
Works like a charm😊
thank u the CMD clear attribute method fixed it for me
I have a Sandisk flash drive that is write protected. The tutorial didn't help.
I tried reformatting and got the same message "The disk is write protected". It has a Sandisk Secure access.exe file. Not sure if that is the reason.
my case
Minitool it's just way better because there's an actual frame to look at and it's really simple to use. Anyways i recovered my USB stick! Nice video!
Loved the video bro
Cheers !
I downloaded the mini tool but my pendrive it still showing up as read only. I am confused on how to fix it, since it won't give me the option to delete the partition.
Thank you, thank you thank you!!!!! I wasn't able to write or delete on any USB sticks anymore and I had no idea why. I spent hours online trying to figure it out and this was the solution! (the regedit tip at 4:00) 🥳🥳🥳
Worked perfectly. Thanks!
Thank You!! Finally got this issue sorted
I tried everything you mentioned, but in diskpart, I got the following message:
"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 information."
I don't know how this got set to write-only in the first place. Very upset about this.
Did u find a solution?
@@Manishnair222 Nope. Doesn't come close to working.
This actually worked thank you so much 🙏 ❤
CMD always works thanks Brite
Thank you. Until I found this video I tried the command inputs over and over and was told each time that the write protect removal was successful. But format still didn't work. Somehow (I'm no guru) I got to computer management and clicked on the correct drive letter / number.
I could try format from that location and got the message there is an input / output error in the device. Previously I saw no such message.
I was using a card reader with a short cord because my laptop sd card slot doesn't recognize the card.
I changed to a different card reader and finally got success.
Yep...Big thanks for this video.
thanks the wizard method works like charm 👍
YES!! Thank you - clear and helpful, problem solved
I frequently use USB flash drives to boot live Linux operating systems on a PC. I have found it's a nightmare to get the drive back to 'normal' after flashing the Linux image to it; it does something strange to the boot sector. All kinds of weird errors including write protect, unable to unmount and even bad media! Even using CFDISK to delete all partitions doesn't help! I've actually made a disk image of a working empty USB flash drive, and I can flash that if one starts misbehaving and won't let me reformat it properly.
Awesome. Liked and subscribed. Thank you.
the minitool helps me a lot,its finally worked
GREAT VIDEO! Saved my butt! Thank you.
Thanks to you I was able to finally get it working thank you
These methods didn't work for me. For the Regedit, I didn't have the option for Read Only. For the Partition Fix solution, my USB wasn't partitioned. It seems as though my USB doesn't want read-permission. How is this possible?
I couldn't tell if the drive was damanged as my device manager view was VERY
different to yours.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
THE MINI TOOL HELPED ME THANK U SOO MUCH 👍👍👍
Thanks, you helped me save a 256GB thumb drive ....
You're welcome
WORKED THANK YOU. FIRST SOLUTION.
I faced this problem: In a U3 portable USB stick I HAVE TWO PARTITIONS, a CDFS and Another, the latter format it in the disk manager, but the CDFS is like a CD Drive, write protected, any idea how to delete the CDFS partition, Has 3 U3 exe files...well?
It work for me.
Thank u bro
I've been surfing on CZcams to find a method to remove my write protection on my SD card. None of them work. Please let me know if you have any other methods
I'm still stuck but haven't tried the 3rd party software option yet so wil try that now thanks.
I tried every single method here, but to no avail! Do you have any suggestions?!
Opened a brand new flash drive, put a few files on it went to an office deopt, couldn't read the files, then I went to a kinkos it asked to reformat. Get home now I get this! unfortunately I guess that office depot screwed up my job because none of this worked. Thanks for video though.
I followed through all the steps right up to Mini Partition Wizard. When I got there, it showed the MicroSD card as Read Only, so I couldn't do anything with it. Thanks, anyway.
Drive is probably bad
Same with me too
thank you so much mate you legend
Good video mate.
Thanks 👍
Nice! The third method work 🥂🎹🔟
Wow! 🤩 Thank you so much 🙏🏼
... Or you could just load up GParted or even the ancient old CFDISK utility (from a dead simple CLI) in something like Ubuntu Linux. Though I might suggest you also remember that LSBLK utility if you tend to live in a Linux CLI environment.
Otherwise, I do seem to prefer Microsoft's DISKPART. It's simple, relatively easy to use and free (as in, you already paid for it)!
Thanks man! It worked.
Thanks for making this video. However my drive still displays read only. Nothing worked. I have tried 2 different adapters and plugged the micro sd card directly into a card read. The card is the camera card from a WYZE camera that is no longer in use. 32gb card. I can't do anything with Minitool Partition Wizard. It shows Read Only and no options are displayed except to backup data. :(
Many thanks bro !
Super 🎉 thank you so much 🙏
Thank you so much for the video. MiniTool Partition Wizard worked great for me.
Thank you! ❤❤❤
Thank u man, u helped me
Respect broo it works agein THX!!!!
Great video. Thanks.
Glad you liked it!
Thanks....your video solved my issue
Glad it helped
Didn"t Work! 😥
I just used my friends cell phone that had a sim card slot for removable memory and had it format to portable storage instead of internal storage. And that worked.
Was just about to bin it - Mini-tool Wizard did the job - Thank you
Thanks, minitool worked
Diskpart worked thanks
Working. Thank you.
Nothing for above worked for me - but thanks for this video anyway!
Thanks the last one works
I tried the all of the above, none worked, the last tip i used, i got this message: " 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 information. " maybe this usb drive s fate is to the trash can.
same for me same error
Same
@@AwaisKhan-dt5eg i replaced my card reader and was fine