[ColieCub]

Hi!
So I have a Imation flash drive with Write Protect on it. I click the disable button then try to create a patrition. It says turn off Write Protect. I've tried serval times and nothing works.

[seahwk83]

try this, I used it before and worked for me

) Click Start->Run.

2)Type regedit and hit enter.

3)Click file and click Export and give a file name and save. Just to rollback if you want.

4)Click on the plus sign next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

5)Click on the plus sign next to SYSTEM

6)Click on the plus sign next to CurrentControlSet

7)Click on the plus sign next to Control

8)Click on the plus sign next to StorageDevicePolicies

9)Write click on WriteProtect and click modify.

10)If the value data is 1 change it 0 and click OK.

11)Repeat steps 7 to 10 for ControlSet001 and ControlSet002 .

12)Close Registry editor and restart the computer.

[karlat]

:( Yah, people this write protections on flash drive, in my case, I have tried this for a month now but still doesn't work, it seems there is nothing written on the registry that matches some of what you said, I can't find storagedevicespolicie under currentcontrolset, please if anyone knows where actually it is,please add a screen shot. I even used the find search on the registry but nothing was found. I'm using sp2.

[karlat]

Ok, people, I tried as much as possible to solve this question by myself as I was saying, I did not find the StorageDevicePolicies in the registry, yeah really I was right as this thus happen with sp2, so I found a way to do that, the reason is, if you don't find it in the registry, the best way is to create it yourself. Below is the procedure.

Start the Registry Editor
Go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control key
If there is no key called StorageDevicePolicies, create it. You do this by right-clicking the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control key, and selecting New > Key from the menu.
Select the StorageDevicePolicies key
From the menu select Edit > New > DWORD Value
Name the new value WriteProtect
Right-click the WriteProtect value and choose Modify
In the Value Data: box enter 1
Exit the registry editor, and restart your computer

To reverse, just delete the new WriteProtect value (or set the value to 0) and restart the computer.

Note: works on Windows XP Service Pack 2 only!

[seahwk83]

Ok, people, i tried as much as possible to solve this question by my self as i was saying, i did not find the StorageDevicePolicies in the registry, yeah really i was right as this thus happen with sp2, so i found a way to do that, the reason is, if you don't find it in the registry, the best way is to create it yourself. Below is the procedure.

Start the Registry Editor
Go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control key
If there is no key called StorageDevicePolicies, create it. You do this by right-clicking the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control key, and selecting New > Key from the menu.
Select the StorageDevicePolicies key
From the menu select Edit > New > DWORD Value
Name the new value WriteProtect
Right-click the WriteProtect value and choose Modify
In the Value Data: box enter 1
Exit the registry editor, and restart your computer

To reverse, just delete the new WriteProtect value (or set the value to 0) and restart the computer.

Note: works on Windows XP Service Pack 2 only!

Thaks for that