How to remove write protection of Pen-Drive/Memory Cards

Pen-drive is a device which data can be transferred from one computer to the other computer. They vary from different sizes and the memory spaces and it is small in size which can carry a lot of information in GB’s which is very useful to the regular PC users to carry to any place. Hence people prefer Flash drives and Memory cards to carry the needed information,here we can have a option to the pen drives in which they can be write protected since we cannot edit the write protected files, it is just only for the reading information purpose when it is write protected. And we also cannot copy the files of the pen drive which is write protected.

Advantages for the USB write protection are we can prevent virus attacks and also Malware and virus can change settings into read only and can’t be changed. There is a small button on the Memory card which makes the data for read only purpose to the user.

Steps: How to remove write protection of Pen-Drive/Memory Card

Here let us discuss about the removal of write protection in Transcend memory card or pen drive

• Download the application Online recovery tools and run it on your personal computer
• After the downloading connect the pen drive/memory card to you personal computer
• There you can see two options available on the downloaded application if you select the first option then the whole data will be removed and also the write protection will be removed
• If you want to remove only write protection then you click on the second option by securing all your pen drives data in the safe mode
• Later this process click on the start button to complete the needed formatting process

Removing write protection using Registry Editor

• Click on the start button search for the run dialogue box and open it then type regedit in that box
  
• After pressing the ok button it will take us to the settings part which are related to the system settings in the windows
• Then search for the following register key from the edit menu in the settings window

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies

• If you do not find the following registry key from the edit menu then you should download the batch file from the below link given and run on your computer then it will automatically adds to registry editor

Download Here

• After the running of the application you again search for that key then there go to write protect key and change the value from 1to 0 in which here 0 defines OFF and 1 defines O
• Then from this process we can remove the write protection in the pen drive and memory cards.