How to Remove USB Write Protection ? Registry Key Change

You might have experienced that not able to use your USB flash drive.

Yes, when you’re trying to move, copy or delete files on your USB drive, but you could not perform this action.

This issue occurs because the disk is write protected. Remove the write-protection or use another disk.

This tutorial shows to Remove USB Write Protection.

Let’s see how do you Disable USB Write Protection which will enable you to copy, delete and modify the files on the USB flash drive.

How to Remove USB Write Protection ?

The simple way to disable USB flash drive Write protection is

Click Start >> Type Regedit in Search box and press Enter.

You will see the registry editor opened.

Now Navigate below path.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies

Now Double click WriteProtect and key which seen in the right pane. Now set the value to 0.

Go to Data Value and press OK.

Now just restart your computer and you will see that your USB flash drive works fine as expected.

This is the simple way to Remove USB Write-Protection.