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(h p://geekscrowd.les.wordpress.com/2012/06 /trasncend.jpg) In most of the USB based ash/pen drives, write protection is provided via the small notch. First of all look for it in sides of your drive. Its even marked with lock/unlock symbol. Move/slide the notch to unlock position (means releasing write protection) before you perform any le operations in your drive such as copy/paste/format etc. After that you can slide back the notch to lock position safely. But many of the pen drives dont provide hardware lock/notch for write protection. Instead they back it up by means of some software/tool. From there you can change the write protection lock/unlock option. Refer to your pen drives manual for more details in this regard as dierent pendrive have diferent ways to to unlock them or otherwise you can also take help of some tools to unlock them. Best Methods To Remove Write Protection From Your Memory Sticks / Pen Drives Goes here (ENJOY AND POST FEEDBACKS TOO) METHOD #1

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1. Open Registry editor of your PC 2. For this you should type command regedit on run. 3. Successively navigate to following linkHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Currentcontrolset \control\storatedevicepolicies( Note: if you cant nd storatedevicepolicies after control folder then you need to create it. For that follow instructions mentioned below ) 1. Open a new note pad le. 2. Copy this cd\reg add HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies /t Reg_dword /v WriteProtect /f /d 0 3. save it as DISABLEWP.BAT 4. Then copy it to start up folder. 4. In right side u will be ge ing writeprotect option, just right click that and modify the hexadecimal value from 1 to 0 5. Restart your PC and enjoy!!!! ( Still having problem??? Dont worry try other methods below ) ============================================================================================ METHOD #2 If you have transcend pen drive infected by 9u.exe which is a write protect virus then the following works like a charm: 1) Download JetFlash online recovery from: www.transcendusa.com/Support/DLCenter/Software/OnLineRecovery.exe (www.transcendusa.com/Support/DLCenter/Software/OnLineRecovery.exe) 2) Run the program 3) Specify the capacity of your drive eg.512 MB, 1 GB ..etc 4) Choose repair and erase all data OR repair and keep existing data 5) Progress bar starts.completes 6) Notication appears format complete 7) Unplug and plug your drive and ..presto enjoy!!!! ( Still having problem ? Dont worry try other methods below ) ============================================================================================ Method #3 1. Start > Run -> type CMD and press enter 2. type< diskpart 3. type< list volume 4. type< select volume # (# is the number of the USB HDD youve pluged in) 5. type< a ributes disk clear readonly (If you need help while typing commands then type HELP FORMAT on command prompt) ============================================================================================ METHOD #4
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There are a series of options in the Group Policy Object Editor that deal with read/write permissions on hard drives and removable media. I basically changed their individual se ings from Not congured to Disabled. Start -> Run -> gpedit.msc -> OK Computer Conguration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Removable Storage Access In here I disabled all of the Deny read access/write access options; you may only want to disable the ones relating directly to the type of media that you want to access. Here are the ones I changed: Removable Disks: Deny execute access Removable Disks: Deny read access Removable Disks: Deny write access Double-click each one and select the Disabled radio bu on. Do the same as above, except the rst step is User Conguration instead of Computer Conguration (Best result if you try both method #1 and method #4 together) Enjoy!!! All the methods mentioned are tested and they works well in my PC. Please dont forget to leave your feedbacks below as comment and lets discuss if more tricks are needed Thanks and Regards Geeksagar Comments Prabin Parajuli says: June 24, 2012 at 11:35 am nice upload man !! keep it up !! Reply Selvalaksmi says: June 1, 2013 at 7:22 am How to copy that le to start up folder pls Reply Sa Roze Gheme Rayz says: June 24, 2012 at 2:14 pm Thank you very much for the post. Method 1 works well for me. I was trying to format my pen drive and was unable to do so since 2 month earlier. I was going with the post same as method 1 but cant nd storatedevicepolicies after control folder. Now i got idea to create it after visiting this blog Awesome job Geeksagar keep it up. Reply geeksagar says:
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July 15, 2012 at 5:44 pm Thanks Prabin for your beautiful comment. keep in touch hai. Reply geeksagar says: July 15, 2012 at 5:46 pm Saroz thats great and thank you too for your review. Please share this post where ever problem arises Hope youll remain in touch. Reply Pshyclatic Vibrationn says: August 7, 2012 at 12:50 pm yo nice dude Reply geeksagar says: June 28, 2013 at 5:09 am Thanks dude !!! Reply geeksagar says: November 5, 2012 at 4:38 am (y) Thank you anyway Vibration jee. Reply Ariful Alam says: February 5, 2013 at 4:18 pm Thanks a lot At last i recover my 4 GB pendrive. Reply geeksagar says: March 29, 2013 at 1:30 pm Thank you for your valuable comment Ariful. Keep in touch, Thank you Reply sudeep says: April 5, 2013 at 3:34 pm geeksagar: dude it didnt worked for me .not even one methed. i am having a 8 gb scan disk writed protected pendrive i though method one will work but after creating the notepad le and placing it in start upalso didnt helpi am using windows 7 , do u want me to chk in win xp.or something ..and ur method 3 happend sucessfully but problem remaisn the same Reply geeksagar says: June 28, 2013 at 5:15 am Sudeep : My suggestion for you to try both method #1 and #4 in sequence. Reply

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sarah says: May 10, 2013 at 11:55 am i cant remove right protect on my pen drive using all the 4 steps i need help Reply karan says: May 28, 2013 at 4:35 pm how to add le to startup folder? Reply satish shinde says: June 5, 2013 at 9:22 am Thank you..for giving correct solution Reply geeksagar says: June 28, 2013 at 5:26 am My pleasure Satish. Thanks from my side for your valuable comment. Do share this to your friends. Reply chinmay says: June 10, 2013 at 10:21 am where is that startup folder in which we have to copy DISABLEWP.BAT le ?? Reply pawan says: June 12, 2013 at 3:23 am please explain about method 4 as i didn,t nd any removable..etc Reply Emran Ahamed Prohoson says: June 12, 2013 at 9:09 am Thank you so much for the all post. Reply chinmay says: June 20, 2013 at 11:03 am any of them didnt work Reply Jannje says: June 23, 2013 at 2:27 am i do the same prodecure in method1 but it wont work..pls help me to remove write protectiononmy kigston DTI/8GB ash drive.. Reply Jannje says: June 23, 2013 at 2:29 am i am using windows xp on the internet cafe rental..everytime i do to restart the computer unit,the

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