How to Remove Write Protection on USB Pen Drive or Memory Card

Are you tired of getting these errors again and again?

Cannot copy files and folders, drive is write protected

Cannot format the drive, drive is write protected

The disk is write protected

Remove write protection or use another disk
Media is write protected

Let's see how can you remove write protection on your portable devices like pen drives, memory cards, iPod and other USB mass storage devices.

# Write Protection on any portable USB Device can be applied by the
physical lockprovided on the card adjuster or some

# times provided on the pen drives, so make sure to make your drive not write
protected by moving the lock in right direction.

# But even after moving the physical lock for write protection the problem can
happen due to some virus action. This happens when some virus or script which
applies the registry hack to make any drive write protect when connected to the
computer,In that case follow the procedure below to remove write protection
from your pen drive.

1. Open Start Menu >> Run, type regedit and press Enter, this will open the
registry editor.

2. Navigate to the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
\StorageDevicePolicies

Note : If the registry key StorageDevicePolicies key does not exist, you will need to create it. Download this batch file called " add-sdp.bat " from here, and double click after download the key will be automatically added to registry.