Open My Computer or File Explorer. Find the USB flash drive in the list of drives connected to the computer. Right-click on the flash drive icon and select Properties in the pop-up menu. On the Properties window, click the Security tab. Click the Edit button below the Group or user names section. USB flash drive prompts with 'Write Protected' message. I have recently purchased a 32gb usb flash drive. I have been using it ok until 3 days ago. I now get a message saying 'Write Protected'. There is no write protection switch on the device. How do i remove the write protection.
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'Recently, my Kingston USB pen drive suddenly became inaccessible and required formatting. But when I tried to format the disk, I got the error message saying that the pen drive was write protected and Windows couldn't format it. So, how can I remove the write protection from my Kingston pen drive? Is there any third-party Kingston write protected removal or formatting tool that can help?'
Solutions to the Kingston write protected issue
The write protection issue happens now and then. It prevents you from accessing the pen drive to delete, add, copy, or modify your files. Given that, it's necessary for you to know how to remove write protection from your pen drive. Generally, the best way is to format the pen drive. But in this situation, the Windows was unable to complete the format. So, you have to find a reliable Kingston write protected removal tool to perform the formatting steps.
- Part 1: Remove the write protection
- Use cmd
- Use regedit
- Part 2: Format the Kinston device
Part 1: Remove write protection on the pen drive
You can try both of the write protection removal tools to fix the write-protected Kingston pen drive with no hassle.
Remove write protection from Kingston pen drive using CMD
CMD command line in Windows DOS is one of the solutions to repair and fix write protected memory card or flash drive. Working as a write protected pen drive format tool, it can help you format Kingston pen drive and remove the write protection within simple steps.
Step 1: Press 'Windows + R' and enter cmd.
Step 2: Type diskpart.
Step 3: Type list volume.
Step 4: Type select volume # (# is the number of the USB HDD you've plugged in).
Step 5: Type attributes disk clear read-only.
Remove write protection from Kingston pen drive using Regedit
![Protection Protection](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yG8PP7-wjAA/maxresdefault.jpg)
Step 1: Click 'Start', type Regedit in the search box, click 'Regedit.exe' to open the Registry editor when you see it is displayed at the top of the list.
Step 2: And then navigate to the key: ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlStorageDevicePolicies
![Protector Protector](http://www.kk-yec.co.jp/products/mediatool/images/usb_write_protector.jpg)
Step 3: Double-click on the 'WriteProtect value' in the right-hand pane of Regedit.exe. Change the Value data from 1 to 0 and click 'OK' to save the change. Close Regedit and restart your computer.
Part 2: Format the Kingston storage device
Once the write protection has been completely removed by using the Diskpart command or Regedit method, you should now feel free to format your Kingston storage device with the help of professional Kingston format utility to easily format it as a new one. The tool that can help you is EaseUS Partition Master, the best partition tool in the market to help manage disk partitions by formatting, deleting, creating partitions, etc. Follow the steps below to do it.
Step 1: Launch EaseUS Partition Master, right-click the partition on your external hard drive/USB/SD card which you want to format and choose the 'Format' option.
Step 2: Assign a new partition label, file system (NTFS/FAT32/EXT2/EXT3), and cluster size to the selected partition, then click 'OK'.
Step 3: In the Warning window, click 'OK' to continue.
Step 4: Click the 'Execute Operation' button in the top-left corner to review the changes, then click 'Apply' to start formatting your external hard drive/USB/SD card.
The next time you are to be unable to manage files on your storage device, take time to find out the causes. If it's caused by 'this disk is write protected' error, this post is also helpful in solving the problem.