How to add write protection and Remove write protection for the USB flash drive in the Win10 System

How to add write protection and Remove write protection for the USB flash drive in the Win10 System

If your USB flash drive (or mobile hard drive) Stores important information and is not rewritten by others, you can set the USB flash drive to "Write protection". However, when you need to change the USB flash drive file, you must also remove "Write protection ". In Windows 10, how does one Add "Write protection" to the USB flash drive and remove "Write protection? (This article is written under the Windows10-14951 Professional Edition System)

The Windows 10 System adds "Write protection" to the USB flash drive and removes "Write protection ".

Add write protection for USB flash drives in Windows 10

Steps:

Right-click Start in the lower left corner of the system desktop, click Run in the Start Menu, enter the regedit command in the run dialog box, and click OK or press enter to open the system registry editor;

The Registry path is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control

Right-click Control-New-item;

We setNew #1Name it StorageDevicePolicies, left-click StorageDevicePolicies, right-click the blank space in the right window, and choose create DWORD (32-bit) value;

SetNew #1Name it WriteProtect, left-click WriteProtect, and change the WriteProtect value from "0" to "1" in the DWORD (32-bit) value editing window ". Click again: OK;

Return to the registry editor window and you will see:

WriteProtect REG_DWORD 0x0000000 (1)

Click file and click exit from the drop-down menu to exit the Registry Editor.

If we send a file to a USB flash drive, an interrupted operation dialog box is displayed: the disk is write-protected. Remove write-protected or use another disk.

So far. The Windows 10 System adds write protection to the USB flash drive ".

How does one remove write protection from a USB flash drive in Windows 10?

In the Registry Editor, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ StorageDevicePolicies, change the value of WriteProtect from "1" to "0", and exit the Registry Editor;

Open the Administrator Command Prompt window, enter the diskpart command, and press Enter;

Enter the list disk command and press Enter;

Find the USB flash drive (disk 2), enter select disk 2, and press Enter;

Enter the attributes disk clear readonly command, and press enter to display: the disk attribute is cleared successfully;

Enter the attributes disk command and press enter to display:

Current read-only status no

Read-Only no

After sending a USB flash drive to a file, the Operation resumes normal. This indicates that the windows 10 system has successfully removed "Write protection" from the USB flash drive.

That is, the Windows 10 System adds "Write protection" and "Write protection" to the USB flash drive for your reference and use.