HI

Author of this post is APOORV GAURAV , who is presently a student of Software Engineering. 

My friend Aadarsh, just encountered with a  problem regarding his USB (Pen Drive), when he got a message which appeared on desktop showing Write Protection message. In this situation, the user can't access the privileged properties to modify and change the properties. The user can neither copy, nor can paste any files  inside pen drive . This tends to a very irritating circumstance when the user is unable to retrieve and fetch it's important files from USB to Other disk.

Write Protection Message

                             

 So, here is a solution to this problem. All you have to do is just to follow the given steps.

1. Open Start Menu , go to Run, type regedit and press Enter, this will open the registry editor.
 

Type regedit in text area

You can also press Windows key +R , type regedit and enter.

2. Now, on the left pane, you will see "My computer" expansion key and its sub-labels. So, just navigate to following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ StorageDevicePolicies

3. Double click the key "WriteProtect" in the right pane and set the value to 0 in the Value Data Box. Then, press OK button.

                             

Tips:

To enable write protection, enter 1 in value Data Box.
To disable write protection, enter 0 in value Data Box.

4. Exit Registry and  restart your computer. It's done. Now, your pen drive is no more restricted.

The next time  you connect your USB to computer, it won't show Write Protection Message.


Now you can easily copy, paste, delete the files in USB and make alterations or modifications.