This media is write protected. Help!

[refinedskillz]

Whenever i try to delete , copy or format anything on my 16gb sandisk usb, it shows an error saying the media is write protected. How can i fix this? ive already tried most solutions such as diskpart. Any help is appreciated.

[Shiwoon]

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/storage/how-erase-write-protected-usb-drive-or-sd-card-3456666/

[refinedskillz]

Tried all them techniques, regedit didnt have the folder i needed. Thanks for the reply.

[Sauron]

might be encrypted. are you the original owner of this drive?

[refinedskillz]

Yup, copied a song i made myself onto it then this problem started happening. Thanks for the reply.

[Sauron]

Yup, copied a song i made myself onto it then this problem started happening. Thanks for the reply.

 

I assume you're on windows?

[refinedskillz]

yes, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit w/SP1

[refinedskillz]

Any ideas?

[tbroadwater2010]

Linux boot disk?

[Abreed05]

you should be able to create a new key in the registry if one doesn't exist. 

[refinedskillz]

@tbroadwater2010 : nope.

@Abreed05 : How can i do that?

Thanks for replys.

[Abreed05]

Open Regedit 

 

Navigate to the following key

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\

CurrentControlSet\Control

Select control and rick click > Create new Key and name it StorageDevicePolicies 

Then in that new key right click and create new dword name it WriteProtect and set the value to 0 

it doesn't matter if the vaule is hex or decimal as 0 is 0 either way. See the article @Shiwoon mentioned earlier it is mentioned in there as well. 

[refinedskillz]

@Abreed05 Ok thanks, i will try this out.

[Abreed05]

Alternatively you could 

 

copy and paste the below text into a word document and save it as a .reg file and run the reg file as admin to automatically do it for you. 

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies]

"WriteProtect"=dword:00000000

[refinedskillz]

@Abreed05 Thanks, i will do

this when i get home and show u my results.

[refinedskillz]

How do i save microsoft word files as .reg? and do i do it with or without the Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00? @Abreed05

[Shiwoon]

How do i save microsoft word files as .reg? and do i do it with or without the Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00? @Abreed05

Just do it in notepad, save as, all files, whatever.reg

You didn't read the whole article I gave you... this is the last time I'll answer to you, kthnx, bye.

[Abreed05]

@refinedskillz save the whole string of text including the registry version 5.0 into not pad and saves as .reg instead of .txt. make sure you select all files from the drop down.

[refinedskillz]

@Abreed05 I've done it, but now my PC doesnt detect the USB drive at all

[Abreed05]

Hmmmm, can it be seen in disk management?

[refinedskillz]

Yes @Abreed05