Hi ,i having 1GB of flash drive of Transcend company.for some unknown reason that showing "write protected ,disable it to use" message is coming.i tried several ways but not succeeded.how to disable that write protected flash drive.presently it allows to copy from the drive but not to that drive and not also accepting the deleting or formatting the drive.how to overcome the problem.
thanks for any help.
bye,
Shashi.

HVAC888

Check the Transcend website for some software tools (such as format, etc.), that you can use to configure the flash drive.

Lowtax4eva

back in my day usb flash drives had a little switch, on one side was a lock icon that was closed, the other side the lock was open... does yours not have this? The unlocked lock means not write protected!

thilina

my usb pen is wright protected

thilina

my usb pen kingston DT1 512is wright protected

hantosh66

hi all
I have the same problem with LG 512 FLASH MEMORY but I know the cause of te problem it is due virus (autorun .inf ) but many anti virus ask me to remove the write protection to remove the virus . what can I DO ? PLEASE

musakkhir

how to remove write protection from flash drive

Transcend 2gb

GlobalComputers

Hello,

If you do not have any data on it.

Try the following.

In windows XP. Go to start. select run.

give command cmd.

Dos prompt will open.

Here type FORMAT X: /FS:FAT32 /Q /V:PenDrive, Replace X with the drive letter of Pen Drive and press Enter, this should format your pen drive and the virus would be gone.

Thanking You,
Mufaddal H bootwala.

Umar Sheikh

hi,

Go to device Manager
click disk drives
write click on appropriate disk (Flash Disk drive)
click on policy tab

then uncheck the option "Enable Write chching on the disk"

if this option is not showing up


Go to Ragistry - My Computer/HEKEY LOCAL MATCHINE\Currentcontrolset\controle\
right click on controle click new and create new ragistry named "StorageDevicePolicy"
right click on storagedeviceolicy create new DWORD and set value 0 to deactivate write protection.