How To Remove Write Protection

Most of us are already using external drives like SD cards, Pen drives and External Hard Disks. Now, if the disks are write protected we will not be able to transfer even a thing into the disk from our PC. Most of you might have faced this problem and, matter of a fact, even I did. Well, sometimes this might be a manufacturing defect. But if it is not a manufacturing defect, here is the way to remove write protection.

How to Remove Write Protection

• Open Start Menu and then to 'Run', type rededit and press 'Enter'. Now you will be able to see the registry editor.
• Now, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES and then to System. Then go to CurrentControlSet. There click on Control and go to StorageDevicePolicies
  

  The whole process is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/StorageDevicePolicies

   There, double click the key Write Protect in the right pane and set the value to zero.
  That's it. You're done.

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