HOW TO REMOVE WRITE PROTECTION IN USB DISK

such as flash drive, USB key, thumb drive,
pendrive and portable hard disk while keeping
the USB hardware device such as webcam,
mouse, keyboard, printer and scanner connected
to USB ports working as usual. However, the
hack disable the USB access to disk drive
completely. User cannot copy data to the USB
disk storage, nor able to read any files and
documents from the USB drive.
For user who just want to disable write access
to the external removable USB mass storage disk
drive, there is another registry hack of
WriteProtect in StorageDevicePolicies registry
key that able to restrict Windows system from
writing to the USB disk drive, and hence
effectively user to copy any sensitive or private
data from the PC to USB key stick. The trick
works in a similar way to write-protect feature
used in floppy disk and backup tape which make
the disk read-only, only that in this case, it’s
system wide implementation that block any
writing and recording of data to USB mass
storage device.
To disable writing access to USB drives and
make all USB drives has only read-only access,
follow these steps:
Run Registry Editor (regedit).
Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet\Control
Create a New Key named as
StorageDevicePolicies.
Highlight StorageDevicePolicies, and then create
a New DWORD (32-bit) Value named as
WriteProtect.
Double click on WriteProtect, and set its value
data to 1.
Once set, all users on the computer is now
blocked and prevented from copying, transferring
or writing any files, documents and data to the
USB disk drives, without the need to restart or
reboot computer. Any attempt to download or
copy files to USB drive will return the following
error message:
The disk is write protected.
The media is write-protected.
Remove the write protection or use another disk.
To revert and remove the blocked write access
to USB drivers, just delete the
StorageDevicePolicies registry key, or delete the
WriteProtect registry entry, or change the value
data for WriteProtect to 0.
For user who doesn’t want to manually editing
the registry, simply download the following
registry registration files to enable or disable the
write protection (block writing attempt) to USB
removable drive. Double click the .reg file
unpacked from the .zip archive to merge the
registry key entries.

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