If your device has this switch move it to the lock position.
Lock usb drive from writing.
Software to enable disable or password protect usb drives.
Disable usb write protection.
In other words you can only read the data that is already stored on the usb flash drive.
Verify if the issue is with the flash drive or computer to verify the issue is related to the flash drive and not your computer we recommend that you try plugging the usb drive into another port on your computer.
Maybe you are using the computer yourself and want to copy some files to your removable drive.
Make sure that it s not the usb port problem that locks the storage drive.
Check if there is a lock switch on the portable usb drive.
Re connect the flash drive in different usb ports on the same computer or on the other one.
Above all write protection also called read only can be physical or virtual.
What is write protection on a usb flash drive.
A write protected usb flash drive has the ability to prevent the writing of new files or the modification of old files.
The drive will go into write protected mode to prevent data loss.
There is no method to fix this.
See how to unlock a memory card.
However unlike the enabling write protection.
For user who just want to disable write access to the external removable usb mass storage disk drive there is another registry hack of writeprotect in storagedevicepolicies or deny write in removablestoragedevices registry key that able to restrict windows system from writing to the usb disk drive and hence effectively user to copy any.
There may be a situation when you would want to restrict access to usb drives occasionally.
Sd cards are always with a lock switch it s easy to change the lock to unlock position.
The write protection switch is useful for keeping the contents of your drive safe from malware when you need to view them on a public computer.
Once your computer reboots anyone who connects a usb drive will be denied access to save edit or delete any content from the removable storage.
Enable usb write protection 2.