How to Format Write Protected USB Flash Drive 3 Free Ways
Summary
This article is about how to remove write protection from USB, I will introduce you three ways to effectively remove write protection.
Table of Contents
What is Remove Write Protection on USB Pen Drive
Write protection is a locking mechanism which is used to prevents any edit operation on the devices like USB pen drive, SD card, external hard drive disk. It can be used to protect the data on the device and can also prevent virus infection, but sometimes, corrupted devices can also become corrupted. So, how to remove write protection?
Write Protection Switch on the USB Flash Drive
Some USB flash drives have a write protection switch on the shell, you can check first if your pen drive have that switch when you find your thumb drive get write protection. Turn off the switch, then you can try it on your computer again.
Turn off write protection switch on usb
Disable Write Protection from USB Flash Drive with CMD Command Prompt
CMD command prompt can help you deal with it, but you need to be careful to avoid making mistakes which can cause you big trouble. Then follow the instructions to remove the write protection from USB flash drive.
Step1: Run CMD on the Windows system.
Remove write protection with diskpart command prompt
Step2: Type "diskpart" in the window.
Remove write protection with diskpart command prompt
Step 3: Type “lisk disk” in the window
Remove write protection with diskpart command prompt
Step 4: Type “select disk 2” in the window, disk 2 is your USB pen drive.
Remove write protection with diskpart command prompt
Step 5: Type “attributes disk clear readonly” in the window, then finished.
Remove write protection with diskpart command prompt
Remove Write Protection from USB Pen Drive and Format USB (2 Parts)
There is another easier way to disable write protection from USB pen drive, IM-Magic Partition Resizer free, this is a freeware to manage disk partitions that you can use it to remove write protection and format usb flash drive. It is 100% safe and effective.
Part1: Remove write protection from usb stick with free tool
You can follow the steps to remove write protection from USB pen drive.
Step 1: Install IM-Magic Partition Resizer free on your computer, run the program.
Step 2: select your USB pen drive, right click it and choose “format partition”.
Format write protection from USB pen drive
Step 3: Apply the changes, then the write protection on the USB pen drive will be removed.
