How to Remove Write Protection On USB Pen Drive or Memory Card or iPod

You can't transfer data to pen drive or memory card? Computer displaying write- protected?who have a problem in copying files on their USB portable devices like pen drives, memory card and iPod etc.

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.

Steps to remove write - protection on your computer

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

STEP-2: Navigate to the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies

STEP-3: Double click the key WriteProtect in the right pane and set the value to 0 in the Value Data Box and press OK button

STEP-4: Exit Registry, restart your computer and then again re-connect your USB pen drive on your computer. That is it, done.

In case you still find an issue, please leave a comment below.

Note: If the registry key StorageDevicePolicies key does not exist, you will need to create it

Download this batch file called add.bat from here, and double click after download the key will be automatically added to registry.