How to Remove Write Protection from USB Drive in Windows

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How to Remove Write Protection from USB Drive in Windows

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How to Remove Write Protection from USB Drive in Windows
So you have a USB or Micro SD write-protected in Windows 10 or Windows 11 I will show you how to remove the Write Protected drive. You can use toolkits from EaseUS Partition Master to remove write protection - bit.ly/4cpPKKk Remember their is always a chance your device is broken and also remember that some of these methods will format the drive, so if you have data on the drive that you are trying to recover, be careful on what methods you try.
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@Britec09 Жыл бұрын

Hope this video helped you out. Drop us a comment and like on the video, it really helps.

@genegaskins6834 Жыл бұрын

Can you use this information for dvd

@watup110875 Жыл бұрын

@Britec09 I wish I had thought about you, before breaking 3 sd card mini's about 3 weeks ago, I don't know how or why they did that protected mode, I have nothing to hide

@arjunraghunadhan3611 Жыл бұрын

Sir i can't do My pendrive is not able to format in cmd,mini tool, Rufus etc Whenever I try it automatically ejects it and don't allow it to format it

@huedoppler1 Жыл бұрын

I have tried this but it not work, can't format or delete volume

@kelvohdeflavr8394 Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, mine worked, 😌,you earned a subscriber

@maggieb3851 Жыл бұрын

I downloaded the mini tool but my pendrive it still showing up as read only. I am confused on how to fix it, since it won't give me the option to delete the partition.

@SnapshotFlo Жыл бұрын

I get this from the command prompt: DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. See the System Event Log for more information.

@thetechistview3180 3 ай бұрын

yes, me too, tell me if you get any solution

@SnapshotFlo 3 ай бұрын

@@thetechistview3180 it was corrupted, had to bin it :(

@caplings 3 күн бұрын

Thank you so much! I had a locked USB, and your Disk Part instructions saved me.

@monikamartin6002 8 ай бұрын

I tried everything you mentioned, but in diskpart, I got the following message: "DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. See the System Event Log for more information." I don't know how this got set to write-only in the first place. Very upset about this.

@Manishnair222 3 ай бұрын

Did u find a solution?

@monikamartin6002 3 ай бұрын

@@Manishnair222 Nope. Doesn't come close to working.

@elliebq 5 күн бұрын

I guess it's time to bin it? I think mine got like this because there's an error when i try to download something to it, and i canceled it in the middle of downloading 😢

@guydaigoji8093 10 күн бұрын

External drive was working on every computer except one. Did the disk part attribute clear while on the machine that was refusing to write to the disk and it worked one time. Thanks very much

@ridhinjoy7425 10 ай бұрын

Didn"t Work! 😥

@Hundredstory 7 ай бұрын

I just used my friends cell phone that had a sim card slot for removable memory and had it format to portable storage instead of internal storage. And that worked.

@pengai9344 6 ай бұрын

Thank you, deleting all partitions and creating a new one works for me.

@GregM Жыл бұрын

As the video notes indicate the write protection could be the result of the flash drive failing and reverting to read only mode to allow you to recover your data off the device. I have had several flash drives fail like this.

@Britec09 Жыл бұрын

I agree, that is the main cause.

@buffuniballer Жыл бұрын

Yep, and then destruction of the device is necessary as you cannot wipe a read only device.

@jakemeals Жыл бұрын

How do you destroy a flash drive so the contents cannot be read? Smashing it or blocking the port

@buffuniballer Жыл бұрын

@@jakemeals pull the circuit board from the plastic case and run it through a paper shredder.

@johnmc3862 Жыл бұрын

@@jakemeals Burn it.

@nguyenhoanganh1559 Жыл бұрын

the minitool helps me a lot,its finally worked

@smodiddley 24 күн бұрын

wow thank you so much for this video! the very lest steps to format via command prompt was the only thing that worked for me. i was fearful i wasn't going to be able to get around the write-only protection prompt, but thanks so much!!!

@52Drew Жыл бұрын

Many thanks Britec. 1 hour later after trying nearly everything to clear "write protect" on a usb drive, then MiniTool Partition Wizard removes "write protect" in less than 5 seconds. Cheers Mate.

@kool-k-kel Жыл бұрын

how? free version??

@Virtueman1 Жыл бұрын

Marketing bs

@angelbabygirlkaneboh5323 Ай бұрын

Thank you brother mini tool was it!

@rodicarobu6695 2 ай бұрын

Clear and simple. It worked at first try. Thank you!!

@RandomRads 6 ай бұрын

I have a Sandisk flash drive that is write protected. The tutorial didn't help. I tried reformatting and got the same message "The disk is write protected". It has a Sandisk Secure access.exe file. Not sure if that is the reason.

@edwinzakaria7588 5 ай бұрын

my case

@wayneberry3453 23 күн бұрын

Same here. Mine was a repack (used) from my local jbhifi

@kylevols7918 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this! The last way of reformatting without downloading software worked as my USB was stuck with write protection.

@Nedlius 2 ай бұрын

no idea why this has to be so difficult, thank you for the help

@EasyJr007 Жыл бұрын

Thank you sir! Your video helped me. I’ve been trying to remove the write protection for over a month. I was able to get it done with the miniTool option. Finally😅

@andrewinstre Ай бұрын

Very good video. I thought it was Michael Caine in his hey days saying "Open the bloody disk!" you also explained it like an Open University Lecturer on BBC 2 in the 70s. Well done and easy to understand! Lol!😂

@blockenginestudios 4 ай бұрын

I thought i had destroyed by usb and the last piece of software saved me thank you so much

@thechallenges5669 Ай бұрын

This guy deserves more, you just got a subscriber

@preacherroaza9882 Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot sir.

@Britec09 Жыл бұрын

Most welcome

@OkiDingo 9 ай бұрын

I didn't have the Write Protection in my registry. Once i added it I could format the USB drive. Thanks mate

@rodger3641 Жыл бұрын

A usb became write protected while plugged into my arlo pro base unit, I can read off it but not format it, I'm going to give this ago when I get home Brian, cheers big fella !!

@Suspended_ 3 ай бұрын

Are you home?

@REDZ28won 3 ай бұрын

@@Suspended_ Not yet!

@lancechin5178 7 ай бұрын

The solution whereby we use diskpart, clean, create partition primary, and format worked for me!

@HerschillGabriels 3 ай бұрын

Very helpful video. The last method helped formatting my usb stick... Thank you

@stevecampisano3116 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, you helped me save a 256GB thumb drive ....

@Britec09 Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

@jerrycurtis98 Жыл бұрын

I followed through all the steps right up to Mini Partition Wizard. When I got there, it showed the MicroSD card as Read Only, so I couldn't do anything with it. Thanks, anyway.

@Britec09 Жыл бұрын

Drive is probably bad

@smartwords360 Жыл бұрын

Same with me too

@niweiyeung4456 6 ай бұрын

Thank you Britec09, now my USB drive back to normal 👍

@Britec09 6 ай бұрын

Glad I could help

@TheJonnybeau 2 ай бұрын

Thanks - this Video saved what little hair I have left on my head..😁

@igronDC Жыл бұрын

MiniTool Partition Wizard has zero options to do anything with the stick. it shows that READ ONLY in red.

@sylvia9292 Жыл бұрын

yep same

@thisshonrobert7605 Жыл бұрын

Same for me ..did u found the ans

@saquibansari7866 Жыл бұрын

Yeah same here...

@arham8198 11 ай бұрын

Did anyone find solution?

@sharmag34 11 ай бұрын

No solution contacted the service centre and replaced it

@witty019 Жыл бұрын

Really other people were just maniupulating for the audience for the views but you helped me sir thank you

@abdulrahmannasser6328 Жыл бұрын

From 10 videos I watched, this is the only one which helped me! thanks a lot.

@OlettaLiano Жыл бұрын

Hi, Brian. I've managed to clear a few write protected USB thumb drive with diskpart clear all, but it's always nice to see other options, so thanks.

@Britec09 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

@watup110875 Жыл бұрын

I tried the diskpart as admin but nothing

@OlettaLiano Жыл бұрын

@@watup110875 It worked for me a few times, but I had to use a partition program on the rest.

@watup110875 Жыл бұрын

@@OlettaLiano that was only 3 I couldn't fix, sad didn't have fund for paid, most free I did try failed like the rest, but ol well, more tools for next I guess lol

@OlettaLiano Жыл бұрын

@@watup110875 Did you try MiniTool Partition Wizard free version? I need to get back to GTA 5 because there's people to runover and cops to guy fight with. LOL

@sheikhmooinuddin2008 2 ай бұрын

Truly helped me. Thanks, brother!

@clintcorpceo 5 ай бұрын

Command prompt worked perfect ! Thanks big guy! 👍

@saveworldvenki1762 Жыл бұрын

after so many videos, ur video First method worked for me thanks Mr.

@thetechworld2957 Жыл бұрын

I've been surfing on KZfaq to find a method to remove my write protection on my SD card. None of them work. Please let me know if you have any other methods

@youshouldknow.sweden 4 ай бұрын

Thank you. Diskpart helped. USB is not write protected right now, so I can format it.

@djskipe Ай бұрын

Thank you bro! First method works

@vdtb1758 8 ай бұрын

After all this time, finally i found you, thank u 😊

@Zaiz777 5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much. The registry edit worked!

@hotboat7054 26 күн бұрын

on the partition wizard software, my disk was listed as read-only, and I am unable to right click it, is there any way I can fix this?

@punpun3257 2 ай бұрын

I was about to throw away a perfectly fine usb drive. THANK YOU!

@rsteleanu 9 ай бұрын

It helped. Thanks man, may God bless you.

@aaronletchford Жыл бұрын

Thanks this is just what i needed, I'll try this 👍

@Britec09 Жыл бұрын

Welcome

@firstpep1073 Жыл бұрын

Hey mate your a Effing Genius man been struggling with my 1tb hard drive and i used the cmd prompt followed your steps now I have full access to it again! Thanks alot brother

@sylvia9292 Жыл бұрын

are u a bot how tf theres no operations tab

@hebayusuf4985 7 ай бұрын

Thank You!! Finally got this issue sorted

@WT-CS-GTA 6 ай бұрын

CMD always works thanks Brite

@jigarkumar4146 3 ай бұрын

thanks the wizard method works like charm 👍

@panicogalactico7379 Жыл бұрын

This is the only video that actually helped me out

@mikenapole6359 9 ай бұрын

Mini Tool worked for me! many thanks for this video mate!!

@Vinitkayeshynovka Ай бұрын

thank you very much sir, you saved my life. i hope you can get more subscribers :)

@brainiac_brian 7 ай бұрын

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I've been chasing that solution for months! I got mine messed up working with Linux. Fixed now!

@mn-ru4li Жыл бұрын

These methods didn't work for me. For the Regedit, I didn't have the option for Read Only. For the Partition Fix solution, my USB wasn't partitioned. It seems as though my USB doesn't want read-permission. How is this possible? I couldn't tell if the drive was damanged as my device manager view was VERY different to yours.

@Salxia Жыл бұрын

thank u the CMD clear attribute method fixed it for me

@whatisit15 5 ай бұрын

Thank you the partition wizard is a nice addition to my tools and was the only thing that helped me with this issue!

@Biyagiefofana 8 ай бұрын

Hey man you’ve just earned a new follower mini tool helped thanks a lot😊

@Imranhayat433 6 ай бұрын

Thank you the last method works perfectly ❤

@sudman 3 ай бұрын

GREAT VIDEO! Saved my butt! Thank you.

@garynet20 11 ай бұрын

I installed the software and I could delete all the partitions, thank you.

@Ibraymov_Alpamis Ай бұрын

Thanks alot, Partition WIzard is worked.

@shoanaleighsparrowingle9859 4 ай бұрын

YES!! Thank you - clear and helpful, problem solved

@mohamedassad753 3 ай бұрын

This actually worked thank you so much 🙏 ❤

@MotasemG 10 ай бұрын

You're a life saver sir! the first method worked for me!

@hensenmavuna 5 ай бұрын

WORKED THANK YOU. FIRST SOLUTION.

@yaniquerichards6445 10 ай бұрын

Works like a charm😊

@soloyjon_soloyev_212 2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much

@YTalrix 8 ай бұрын

THE MINI TOOL HELPED ME THANK U SOO MUCH 👍👍👍

@Sidm270 11 ай бұрын

THX so much for making this you have saved me!

@adamroutley 8 ай бұрын

Worked perfectly. Thanks!

@_Hashim3318_ Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much the diskart part actually fixed my usb stick.

@Keith.W Жыл бұрын

Very informative video Brian, many thanks.

@Britec09 Жыл бұрын

Very welcome

@Terminators4U 8 ай бұрын

@@Britec09nope for my usb drive sandisk 32 bb drive nothing works. I have so many usb drives and all work fine on any laptop but this drive doesn’t work at all. I can access all data on that drive and watch movies from it too but no software or diskpart works. I tried a low level format utility as shown in several videos but nothing worked 😂. It says disk I/O errors on format and files and partitions are still there. I think sandisk has a certain problem on usb drives. Don’t let it fill up too much or you will loose access to the drive permanently. It permanently turns off write ability on it.

@michaelhenderson5098 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for making this video. However my drive still displays read only. Nothing worked. I have tried 2 different adapters and plugged the micro sd card directly into a card read. The card is the camera card from a WYZE camera that is no longer in use. 32gb card. I can't do anything with Minitool Partition Wizard. It shows Read Only and no options are displayed except to backup data. :(

@artnoodleboi1132 5 ай бұрын

Thanks to you I was able to finally get it working thank you

@chadibaytamouni3503 Жыл бұрын

I tried the all of the above, none worked, the last tip i used, i got this message: " DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. See the System Event Log for more information. " maybe this usb drive s fate is to the trash can.

@kool-k-kel Жыл бұрын

same for me same error

@AwaisKhan-dt5eg Жыл бұрын

Same

@kool-k-kel Жыл бұрын

@@AwaisKhan-dt5eg i replaced my card reader and was fine

@areb8579 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Thanks.

@Britec09 Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@thisaraprabath4625 11 ай бұрын

Did everything no result 😔😢

@johnnykerbaj4840 8 ай бұрын

Thank you sir for this amazing explanation. But if you can also explain how to format a cd that is write protected? Thanks again!

@tupcool7136 11 ай бұрын

Thank you! It helped me with my USB! Excellent video!

@rsb762 8 ай бұрын

Awesome. Liked and subscribed. Thank you.

@andypuhl670 5 ай бұрын

Thank you, thank you thank you!!!!! I wasn't able to write or delete on any USB sticks anymore and I had no idea why. I spent hours online trying to figure it out and this was the solution! (the regedit tip at 4:00) 🥳🥳🥳

@christiankailie6339 3 ай бұрын

It work for me. Thank u bro

@PrinceSnoopy 4 ай бұрын

Wow! 🤩 Thank you so much 🙏🏼

@Benny71453 6 ай бұрын

nothing works for me, ive got a bunch of USBs I cant use anymore because everything that seems to work for others doesnt for me. ive tried partition wizard and it doesn't even let me click on the usb like yours. mine also says read only in red.

@rodsco357 Жыл бұрын

Great video! Have a Samsung 64 g USB with Linux OS bootable that only used 2 gigs. I used redit to delete the file, then cmd diskpart to clean and complete format now I'm using the drive as a recovery drive. Thank you.

@Wow-Cartoon398 10 ай бұрын

How

@Fletch8714 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Jim or Tim for the video I have a Sdcard that will not work in my system I cannot read it or write to it, or format it, and windows won't allow me to format it and the SDcard is not Locked I will try your method to see if I can get it working it's a 32gig SD Card from Sandisk, thankyou!

@lse123polis Жыл бұрын

I faced this problem: In a U3 portable USB stick I HAVE TWO PARTITIONS, a CDFS and Another, the latter format it in the disk manager, but the CDFS is like a CD Drive, write protected, any idea how to delete the CDFS partition, Has 3 U3 exe files...well?

@NikolayKostenski 12 күн бұрын

Thanks a lot. It helped :)

@PortlandMan 2 ай бұрын

Guide starts at 6:40 thank me later

@AtomicusPrime 8 ай бұрын

The first command line solution worked for me so far. Thank you!

@karims9641 3 ай бұрын

Many thanks bro !

@WrestlingFace Жыл бұрын

Good video mate.

@Britec09 Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

@n1ggawithaclappedaltima8402 9 ай бұрын

I was losing hope after the second attempt but the minitool partition application did the trick thanks again

@rohithboppey3205 10 ай бұрын

Thanks man! It worked.

@southernexposure123 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Until I found this video I tried the command inputs over and over and was told each time that the write protect removal was successful. But format still didn't work. Somehow (I'm no guru) I got to computer management and clicked on the correct drive letter / number. I could try format from that location and got the message there is an input / output error in the device. Previously I saw no such message. I was using a card reader with a short cord because my laptop sd card slot doesn't recognize the card. I changed to a different card reader and finally got success.

@jarrodnewman0514 Жыл бұрын

Whenever I have a stubborn USB drive that just won't format or un-partition with Windows 10/11 Disk Management, I use my Ventoy USB drive and an old laptop and boot into Hiren’s BootCD based on Windows 10 PE x64. There is a specific type of disk management software included within called AOMEI Partition Assistant that never fails to format, or de-partition any USB flash drive or SD/microSD card

@dustandashes419 Ай бұрын

Diskpart says it cleared readonly but it didn't. Downloaded and ran MiniTool Partition Wizard but I don't get a Delete Partition option. I can read the files on the drive, but I cannot modify or delete any. I also cannot format the drive. At a loss as to how to gain access to this drive again. It is unknown by both users as to how the drive got set to readonly in the first place. There is no hardware switch on the drive.