How To Remove Write Protection USB or SD Card

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How To Remove Write Protection USB or SD Card

#1 Method: Checking Write Protection Button

Many USB device comes with a write protection button. Sometime when this button remains on the write protection error will shows on copying, pasting and deleting any file from the media device. To remove error check the button at side of the SD card if the button is on then put it off and by this Write Protection of USB will get removed.
#2 Method: Using Command Prompt

In this method we will remove write protection from pendrive using commands in Cmd. This will fully clean the write protection of the pendrive.

  1. Click on Start->Cmd .
  2. Type Diskpart and press enter.
  3. Type list disk.
  4. Type select disk 1 and this will select your Sdcard/USB pendrive.
  5. Now type “attributes disk clear readonly” and press enter.
  6. Now exit from cmd and format your Sdcard/USB pendrive.
This will remove write protection from your sd card or pendrive.
#3 Method: Using Registery Editing

In this method we will edit some registry values of computer as when they are overwrite by some reasond our media can show error message of Write Protection

  1. Open Run -> type Regedit -> click on Registry Editor.
  2. Now follow up this path in Registry Editor
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentConrolSet/Control/StorageDevicePolicy
  3. There you will find write protection option just click on it and set its value to 0.
  4. Thats it you are done.
By this the default value of write protection registery will be changed and the write protection will permanently get removed from that media device.
 
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