Thursday, July 3, 2014

How to Remove Write Protection of any Flash Drives/Memory Cards

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In olden days we had lesser ways to store data, as technology advanced we got Floppy disk, Optical Disk and now flash drives, they are easily vulnerable as they can accessed by anyone, but flash drives had the feature to secure them from spammers



We can add Write protection so that no one can use it , the person who owns only can access it , this is good for security reasons, sometimes we need to remove those protection for some fair reasons, i will teach you the easy possible way which you can easily Remove write protection on any Flash Drives/ Memory cards

HOW TO REMOVE WRITE PROTECTION OF ANY FLASH DRIVES/ MEMORY CARDS

1) TRY LOW LEVEL FORMATTING

  • We cannot use the default windows method, so you need to download one special tool which is given here LOW LEVEL FORMATTING
  • Format the Password protected Pen Drive with this Tool
  • Now open the Run box ( Win+R) and type diskmgmt.msc in Box
  • You can see your Pen Drive, Flash the Drive and allocate the Space
  • There will be no error after you Allocated the Space to Flash Drive
2) Modify Registry Settings
  • Before doing things on Registry, please do backup of Registry
  • Open the Run box ( Win+R) and type regedit in the box
  • Search for the Following Registry Key in the Window
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
  • Click on Write Protect and change the Registry binary value from 1 to 0

  • Now you had successfully Removed the Write Protection on your Flash Drives/ Memory cards