Write protection, when applied to a USB drive, prevents unauthorized users from adding to, changing or deleting anything contained on the drive. Using write protection, you can circulate the drive among several users with the assurance that each user will see the same message. You can also prevent inadvertent deletion of the drive’s data. To permanently remove write protection from your USB drive, you need to format the drive. Before doing so, copy any files you want to save to another storage unit.

More Tricks

Insert the USB flash drive into a USB 2.0 port and turn on your computer. Click the "Start" button and then select "Computer." Note the drive letter of the USB drive, which is labeled as "Removable Disk."

Click “Start | All Programs | Accessories | Command Prompt” to open a Command Prompt window.

Type the drive letter assigned to the USB drive followed by a colon; for example, type "E:" (without quotation marks). Press “Enter.”

Type “format” and the drive letter followed by a colon; for example, type "format E:" (without quotation marks). Press "Enter."

It will say to select Y/N you would write Y(Without Quote Marks) and Press "Enter".

Close the Command Prompt window when the operation is complete. Write protection has been removed from the USB drive.