HOW TO FORMAT A WRITE PROTECT USB DRIVE

Hi my flash disk is inficted with 4 viruse , my flash disk write protected and i'cant remove the viruse or Format the flash disk !! so i'm very unhappen !!! do you help me in this problem ?

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Thanks,

CRneXt

I cannot find "StorageDevicePolicies" in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies on my computer.
Any idea for that? Help, pls!
Thanks in advance!

Please check if there is any lock in your data traveler which is stopping you to format it.....but if you dont have any lock in your data traveler you can solve your problem through registry ....you have to make some changes into your windows registry in order to format your data traveler.....
1.
Check out if the USB drive has a small swich for write protection. 2.
Windows can write protect USB drives too. Check out the registry under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies.
The value 'WriteProtect' should be absent or set to '0'.
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dilipbagdi
Technical Associate

click start click to open on my computer you should see your Hard drive C: right click select properties there will be an array of options select the sharing tab option then advanced sharing make sure you have a tick in the share this folder box then click permissions make sure you have full control in windows 7

click start control panel user accounts click on the administrators account if you have made one or you will have to create one in windows XP

click start right click on my computer select open
Right click the icon of your Hard Drive (It should be C:/ or something)
Click Properties in the menu that comes up
Click the Sharing tab
Click permissions
And finally, click Allow next to Full Control.


click start click on my computer to open you should see your drive
right click then select format

another way
click start control panel administration tools computer management disk management right click on your usb drive select format

hope this helps you

Thank's guru
dilipbagdi
you are genius

thank you very much you have solved my problem

GA ada yg BENERR

HOLY ****, DILIPBAGDI !!!!!

i have been having an issue with this for about a month now... and have been sparatically searching the internet for a solution and you just saved my life !

Thanks.

First, check if the card is inserted properly to the slot... push it firmly so that all nodes touches the inside of the card reader..