We are here to help and guide you in the right direction. Method 2: If the issue persists, I would suggest you to take the Ownership of the drive and check if the same issue occurs. Let us know the status of the issue after performing the troubleshooting steps.
If you need any further assistance or information about Windows, I will be glad to help you. We, at Microsoft strive towards excellence. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Geethu B's post on February 9, Well I tried the methods u mentioned and neither of them seemed to work I even tried longing in my administrator account and that still didn't seem to work, any other suggestions? Sorry for that late reply dough been busy.
In reply to BrandonRagoo's post on February 11, I appreciate your efforts put in to try the troubleshooting steps. In reply to Geethu B's post on February 12, Gaurav Joshi you can use killdisk Paul Pruitt Try:.
Look and see if there are only Read rights on the drive. If there are, go into the Advanced Tab and fool around with the parameters until you can take ownership of the drive and change the permissions. Maybe another responder can share exactly how to take ownership.
Justin Pot This has happened to me a couple of times, and formatting the drive usually solve the problem. If nothing else here works give that a shot. Jan Fritsch You can find a multitude of possible solutions in our previous question:. It may help and is very detailed to help you. The command prompt is still a powerful Windows tool. Here are the most useful CMD commands every Windows user needs to know. Brandon Ragoo. Guys sorry for the late response I kept forgetting to reply to this as I have been busy and lost all hope with the flash drive, I'm thinking its a hardware issue.
Some USB flash drives have a write protection switch on the side or bottom. The write protection switch is useful for keeping the contents of your drive safe from malware when you need to view them on a public computer.
If your device has this switch, move it to the "Lock" position. This action effectively sets all files, and the device itself, to read-only mode. Use the size of the disk to determine which one is your USB flash drive. Or, to set the read-only attribute making the flash disk write-protected , use the command attributes disk set readonly. If using DiskPart , as detailed above, does not work to clear the read-only attribute of a USB flash drive, the security permissions may need to be changed.
The security permissions may be set so that all users only have Read permissions to files on the flash drive. If the steps below don't work for your flash drive, it may prevent permission changes from being locked by a security program. In these cases, you may not be able to make the flash drive writable.
Remove the write-protection or use another disk. The PC is upgraded from Windows 8. How do I disable the write protection? Write protection also called read-only can be physical or virtual. A USB drive is enabled with write protection has the ability to prevent new files from being written or old files being changed.
Typically, this means you can only read the data which are already stored on the USB, but you can't delete or modify them. By using write protection, you can make ensure data is not accidentally overwritten or erased. If you are reading this post, you must be one of them.
Deep breath and stay calm. No matter whether you are using Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10, I am going to walk you through a few easy steps to remove write protection and make your USB flash drive or SD card writable again.
Some USB flash drives have a physical switch which allows you to lock or unlock write protection. The location of a switch on a USB flash drive will be different. Make sure the lock switch is slid up to unlock position. You will not be able to transfer files to the USB drive if it is locked. If the write protection switch on your USB drive is off and you still get the error message or there is no physical switch on your USB drive, please skip to Step 2.
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