My USB is write protected.
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Computertech Posts 3569 Registration date Friday February 6, 2015 Status Moderator Last seen July 18, 2016 - May 25, 2015 at 02:07 AM
Computertech Posts 3569 Registration date Friday February 6, 2015 Status Moderator Last seen July 18, 2016 - May 25, 2015 at 02:07 AM
Hello,
I tried everything to format my USB, but nothing has worked out. My USB had that shortcut virus and it made all my data unseen. I scanned the USB stick with Bit Defender and obviously there was a virus, and Bit Defender quarantined it. Since then and my USB is still write protected. My USB is readable, it says that there's data 55 GB free of 59. I access it, nothing at all. I try to format, it says Write Protected.
What should I do?
I tried everything to format my USB, but nothing has worked out. My USB had that shortcut virus and it made all my data unseen. I scanned the USB stick with Bit Defender and obviously there was a virus, and Bit Defender quarantined it. Since then and my USB is still write protected. My USB is readable, it says that there's data 55 GB free of 59. I access it, nothing at all. I try to format, it says Write Protected.
What should I do?
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Computertech
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May 25, 2015 at 02:07 AM
May 25, 2015 at 02:07 AM
Hello Einsteinium92,
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....
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....