How to Remove Write Protection from SD Card [Solved]

How to Remove Write Protection from SD Card : Many people have been asking me from a while about Removing write Protection from SD card so in my today’s tutorial I’ll be teaching you how you can remove write protection from sd card. Also check upon how to remove shortcut virus from pc.

How to Remove Write Protection from SD Card ?

See there are 3 steps which are very simple and easy to do and even a 5th grade kid can do it so don’t panic and it isn’t a rocket science to fix write protection SD Card issue.

How to Remove write protection from USB Pen drive ?

Removing write protection from pen drive and removing write protection from micro sd card is one an the same so you can use the same method to remove write protection from both.

Solution 1: Check if your Pen Drive have a lock

Sometimes it may happen that by default the pen drive have a lock so before formatting it please make sure that your pen drive don’t have any kind of security pin or lock and if it is there then make sure to remove it or use it while formatting your micro sd card or pen drive.

Solution 2: Scan your SD Card / Pen Drive via Anti Virus

Make sure your Micro SD card and your pen drive isn’t have any anti virus and if they do make sure to remove it using any anti virus and if you don’t have any anti virus in your computer then download a free anti virus such as AVG Anti virus and scan your SD card or Pen drive before using it and before formatting it in order to avoid getting write protection error.

Solution 3: Fix it with System Registry

The 3rd best way to solve this contagious issue is by fixing it via system registry and in order to do that you need to get inside the system registry. Just follow the below steps.

Click on Start
Run > type Regedit > click on Registry Editor
Now follow up this fath in Registry Editor
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentConrolSet/Control/StorageDevicePoi
Now you’ll able to see write protection option just click on that.
And change the value data to “o”.
voila you’re done!

Update (31st January, 2015) Solution 4: Open Diskpart to remove write protection from Memory Card/USB Drive

As many people told me that the above solution 3 isn’t working I’ve come up with one more method in order to remove write protection error from Memory Card or USB Drive. Follow the steps as I’ve have mentioned below.

How to Remove Write Protection from SD Card [Solved]

Click on Start > search for CMD > Right click and Run as Administrator.
Now type “diskpart” in CMD without quotes and press the enter button.
Now after doing this type “list disk” (without quotes) and once again press enter button.
Now tyle “Select disk 1” in order to select your SD Card or USB drive and press enter button.
Now in order to remove write protection error type “attributes disk clear readonly” without quotes and press the enter button.

Now type exit to complete the process and you’re done!
Now just try to format your Micro SD Card or USB drive you won’t be seeing any write protection popup error.

This should fix and remove write protection from micro sd card now and you’ll be able to format your sd card or pendrive.

I’d hope you liked our How to Remove Write Protection from SD Card article. Let us know if you have any doubts or any questions regarding this issue in the comment section below. We’re here to help

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