✔ Format write-protected hard drive via partition manager Close Regedit Editor and check whether the write protection is removed. Name it with Write Protect and open it to set the Value data to 0.Ĥ. Then name it with StorageDevicePolicies.Īt the right-hand pane, right-click white space and go to “New”>“DWORD (32-bit) value”. If you are in such a case, you can right-click Control and go to “New”>“Key”. Note: It is possible that there is no StorageDevicePolicies under Control. Double click WriteProtect and Changethe value data from 1 to 0. When the value of Windows Registry Key is set incorrectly, you can remove write protection using Registry Editor.Ĭomputer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePoliciesģ. Then you can type “exit” and hit “Enter” to close this window. Within a few seconds, Diskpart utility cleared Read-only successfully. Select disk n, “ n” is the disk number of your hard drive. Type the following command lines and hit “Enter” after every command line. Press “Windows + R” at the same time to open “Run” dialogue.ģ. This method is applied to the situation that the attributes of your hard drive has been set as read-only in Diskpart. If you are still troubled by write protected issue, find a solution in the content below. “e” can be replaced with your hard drive partition drive letter.
If you are unable to run this command and receive message error that Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write-protected, you can try the following command:Ĭhkdsk e: /f/r/x and press “Enter” key. (“e” is the drive letter of your hard drive partition) You can run it to check your hard drive for bad sectors.Ģ. ✔ Check hard drive via CHKDSK utilityĬHKDSK is a Windows built-in utility, which can check the integrity of your hard disk and fix file system errors on FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS drive. If you are sure that there is no virus on your hard drive, you can try the solutions presented in the following part.
If you are troubled in this issue, consider whether there are chances that your hard drive is infected with virus and run anti-virus software to check for it. In general, disk write protected can be caused by virus attack or infection, corrupted file system and wrong value of Windows Registry Key, etc.
How to disable write protection on hard drive?
That is to say, if your disk is write-protected, data loss on it caused by correct operations can be avoided. And you are only allowed to read the data already stored on it. Such as, it is unavailable to delete files on it or store new files on it. When your hard drive or other storage devices like USB flash drive are enabled with write protection, you will not be allowed to make any write operation to it. Write protection, also named as read-only, it can be virtual or physical.
I’m wondering what is write protection on my external hard drive and how to remove write protection from it in Windows 10?"
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I failed to copy files on the external hard drive under Windows 10 with a message saying that the disk is write-protected.
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