How To Remove write protected from usb and MMC

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Step 1 : Check If Your Pen Drive Have A Lock ?

In most cases it has been found that memory cards and usb drives are having lock which prevent them from being formatted. So, kindly check that your memory card is containing any type of lock or not ? If yes, then push the lock on opposite direction to unlock it. If your SD card is having any type of lock then you will notice that there are markings provided for lock and unlock.

Step 2 : Scan SD Card Using Antivirus Or usb write protect

Mostly, it has been found that these error generally occurs because of mischievous nature of viruses, trojans and worms in your computer or memory card.So, try to scan your pc and sd card for making sure that they don’t contain any type of harmful files. After scanning your sd card properly again try to copy files to your sd card. If the process is successful then it is okay but if not then continue reading this article.

Step 3 :How to remove write protect in flash drive Using Windows Pc

Get Inside Your System Registry 

Many types of issues and errors occurs inside a windows system and can be easily solved using registry editor.

Just follow the below steps as shown : –

1. Click Start > type “regedit” and open “Registry Editor”.

2. Now follow the below path after opening registry editor :-

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/StorageDevicePolicies 

3. Now you will see “Write Protection” option. Double click on that and set the value data to ‘0’.

After setting the value data to ‘0’ again try copying or formatting your sd card. After performing the above step you are still not able to format your sd card then continue to next step.

 

If you can’t find StorageDevicePolicies, you can try creating a key by right-clicking in the white space in the Control folder and choosing New -> Key and carefully entering the name.
Now double-click on the new key (folder) and right-click once again and choose New -> DWORD. Name it WriteProtect and set its value to 0. Click OK, exit Regedit and reboot your compute

Step 4 : Open Diskpart Utility For Removing Write Protected From Memory card/usb drive

1. Open Command Prompt and type diskpart and press Enter key.

2. After opening diskpart type “list disk” and again press Enter button.

3. Now type “select disk 1” to select your sd card and press Enter key again.

4. To remove write protection from sd card type “attributes disk clear readonly” and hit Enter.

Now you are almost done with this process. Simply type “exit” and press enter key once more to exit the menu. 

5. Now, right click on your Sd card and click on Format option to format your card.
6.  clean 
7.  create partition primary
8.  format fs=fat32  (you can swap fat32 for ntfs if you only need to use the drive with Windows computers)
9. exit