Pendrive shows write protected

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RAHULRR Posts 3 Registration date Monday February 10, 2014 Status Member Last seen February 11, 2014 - Feb 10, 2014 at 11:59 PM
Ambucias Posts 47310 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 - Feb 11, 2014 at 05:16 AM
sir, my transcend pendrive is shows write protected no action can be completed on pendrive.
I check this in many pc's but same problem occur in all

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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
Feb 11, 2014 at 12:04 AM
The drive is probably broken. Windows returns this code when it can't write to the drive. It just assumes it can't write because it's "write protected".
RAHULRR Posts 3 Registration date Monday February 10, 2014 Status Member Last seen February 11, 2014
Feb 11, 2014 at 12:07 AM
but sir pendrive is not broken also pendrive is shown in our pc but no action takes place
Ambucias Posts 47310 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 11,166
Feb 11, 2014 at 05:16 AM
Hope this will help you...
for windows only

Click start
then run regedit
go to this directory HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Currentcontrolset\control\
if you can't find StorageDevicePolicies under control folder
then make some new one. Follow this steps:

step 1:
go to this directory HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Currentcontrolset\control\
again and right click control folder

step 2:
select new, then click key and rename the new key #1 folder into
StorageDevicePolicies

step 3:
right click StorageDevicePolicies folder and select new DWORD(32-bit) Value
for 32-bit Operating System and select new DWORD(64-bit) Value
for 64-bit Operating System

step 4:
rename dword newer folder into WriteProtect, then double click WriteProtect
and change the value data into 0 with hexadecimal base, Then close regedit

step 5:
open my computer and refresh it 5 times without do anything to your usb, and
properly eject your flash drive

step 6:
plug in your usb again into your computer and format it using exfat instead of fat32


Now, you can use your flash drive again....