Write Protection on any portable USB Device can be applied by the physical lock provided on the cardadjuster 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 there registry key StorageDevicePolicies key does not exist, you will need to download a batch file
called add.bat from here, and double click after download the key will be automatically added to registry.
Double click the key WriteProtect in the right pane and set the value to 0 in the Value Data Box and press OK button. Exit Registry, restart your computer and then again re-connect your USB pen drive on your computer. That is it, done.
If the above method does not work for you, follow the below steps:
The above two steps will solve the problem. If you still face the problem, follow the below steps:
1. Goto Start > Run, type cmd and press enter, this will open command prompt.
2. Type the following command on the command prompt replacing X with the drive letter of your pen drive.
CHKDSK X: /F
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