I can't format my pendrive

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udayakumar - Nov 5, 2014 at 08:16 AM
R2D2_WD Posts 3606 Registration date Monday September 1, 2014 Status Member Last seen February 20, 2017   - Nov 5, 2014 at 10:02 AM
Hello,

C:\>format f:/q
Insert new disk for drive F:
and press ENTER when ready...
The type of the file system is FAT32.
QuickFormatting 7633M
Cannot format. This volume is write protected.
This is my error..
Hw to format my pen drive
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R2D2_WD Posts 3606 Registration date Monday September 1, 2014 Status Member Last seen February 20, 2017   155
Nov 5, 2014 at 10:02 AM
Hi undayakumar,

I would recommend you to try and format the pen drive from Disk Management. In order to remove protection, you could open Start Menu and type regedit. Pressing Enter will bring the registry editor.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies - go to this path, click on Write Protect and set value to 0. Restart PC and reconnect device.

https://ccm.net/forum/affich-32020-write-protected-pendrive-can-not-format - Check this thread for more details and ideas

Hope this helps
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