How to enable write protection on your usb drive
- now lets see how you can easily enable write protection on your USB Drive hence making it secure from any unidentified transfer.
- steps
- 1. Open Notepad and type below code into it.
- Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Control \StorageDevicePolicies] "WriteProtect"=dword:00000001
- 2. Now just save it as Write- Protection- On.reg
- make sure the extension remains .reg for the file to work fine.
- Or you can also download this .reg file directly.
- 3. Now just double click on this file and press OK, now this entry will be added in your registry and write protection will be enabled.
- 4. Now just plug in your USB Drive and try to transfer any file to it. It won't transfer instead it will show you some error like Write Protection enabled.
- How to Disable Write Protection on USB Drive
- Now you have successfully protected your USB Drive from getting infected, well if you are planning to remove the write protection, well it can be done pretty easily,
- you just need to follow below steps.
- 1. Open Notepad and type below code into it.
- Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Control \StorageDevicePolicies] "WriteProtect"=dword:00000000
- 2. Now just save it as Write- Protection- Off.reg
- make sure the extension remains .reg for the file to work fine.
- Or you can also download this .reg file directly.
- 3. Now just double click on this file and press OK, now this entry will be added in your registry and write protection will be disabled.
- 4. Now simply remove your USB and Plug In once again, now you will see you are once again able to transfer file easily.
- So guys this ends another very amazing tutorial, hope you found this one a good one helping you in getting rid of those nasty viruses