My Pen Drive (HP V-210 W 16 GB ) has write protected

[Vijesh_1986]

My 16GB hp pendirve v210w is write protected. I am not able to write/delete/format with my pendrive.

Please help me to get solve the issue.

[Dvortex]

Hello, @Vijesh_1986 – Greetings!
 

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I understand that your pen drive is write protected. Please try the steps recommended below to disable the write protection on USB drives:

• In the windows search type regedit open Registry Editor
• Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
• Right-click and 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.

Or try the following steps.

1. Start > Run  -> type “CMD” and press enter

2. type< diskpart

3. type< list volume

4. type< select volume # (# is the number of the USB HDD you’ve pluged in)

5. type< attributes disk clear readonly

Please let me know if this resolves the issue, or if you require further assistance!

Good luck 🙂
 

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