Format Your Write Protected Pen-drive With Easy Steps

Introduction

Here, we will tell you formatting write protected pen-drive with some easy steps.

It’s common to witness errors like “The disk is write-protected”,

which indicates that you made an attempt to format your pen drive, but were unable to do so.

This situation may have occurred many times.

Mostly, due to external software that was brought into use for locking contents and contents that are within read-only.

In such a case, the computer will not allow you to format, edit, or make changes in the contents of the pen drive.

That’s why we have brought you some ways to get rid of the problem and erase the contents of the pen drive.

Also, after getting done with the necessary process, the pen drive will get empty and open to all kinds of editing.

Things To Consider Before Beginning

Before beginning this process, make sure to check whether your pen drive has a switch at the side to enable lock protection. In such a case, toggle to switch to off and the write protection will go off!

If you are using a normal pen drive, there are no such things that you have to do. For that, there are 2 CDM based-methods that we will cover one by one.

Let’s Get Started to learn to format protected Pen drive!

Also read: Creating Bootable USB Drives

Method 1: use registry edits

To make use of this method,

You need to make sure that you are logged in as an administrator on your system

So for that, make use of the following steps:

Step 1

First, you need to click on the Windows icon on the left side of the screen. Write Regedit in the search box and click on it as it appears to open the registry file. It will get displayed at the top of the list.

Step 2

Navigate to the key.

Step 3

Now, it’s time to double click on it to open and change the value data to 0.

Then, you need to quit the screen and your pen drive will be ready to format like you used earlier.

Then, right-click and format.

Method 2: using diskpart

For this method,

You need to look for things that are mentioned in the above method.

Here are the steps to perform it:

Step 1

First, you need to connect your USB drive to the system and launch the command prompt application from the start menu. After successful launching, enter the “Diskpart” command for launching the utility tool.

Step 2

Next, you need to enter the “list disk” command to view the attached drives. From here, you need to identify the disk identifier from the list.

Step 3

After this, you need to pick the pen drive by using the “select” command that is followed by its identifier. For your information, the identifier belongs to the name of the risk that your computer identifies.

If you are not sure about this, then visit My computer and check the name.

You can move to the next step only when you are able to see the message drive-name is now the disk that you selected.

Step 4

Next, you will see a message “attributes disk read-only”. You need to press enter now. Doing this will lead to the read-only feature from the USB drive.

Step 5

After viewing the above message, your drive permissions will reset and you can exit the command prompt to format the pen drive like we normally do by using right-click and format.

Wrapping Up

All in all, there are various third-party tools to format your write-protected pen drive. Usually, they are not recommended because they can corrupt the pen drive. So, the above steps are there to help you out in case you are struggling to format your write-pen drive. You can perform these steps easily and not require professional help.

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