How To Add & Remove Write Protection from Pen Drive

Pen or Flash drives are the most popular and handy gadget that has made easy to carry important content. Though Pen/Flash drive has many advantages, but there are some disadvantages too. And one of the most concerning problem is Security problem. Anyone can access into it and modify the content if they have it.

To present a solution for this problem I have decided to share this post. Using a simple Notepad trick we can easily enable and disable write protection whenever we want. Lets see how to do it.

Note: While doing these process you need to connect your Pen/Flash drive to your PC.

Enabling Pen/Flash Drive Write Protection:

1. At first open your Notepad and write or paste the code given below.


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies] “WriteProtect”=dword:00000001

1. Then save with the name of romel_soft.reg .
2. Now double click this and click Yes then press OK.

That's it now your Pen/Flash drive is write protected and no one will modify your content

Disabling Pen/Flash Drive Write Protection:

1. Again open the Notepad and write or paste the code given below.


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies] “WriteProtect”=dword:00000000

1. Then save the name of romel_soft2.reg.
2. Now double click this and click Yes then press OK.

Now release your  pen drive and connect it again. You will see that your Pen/Flash drive's write protection is disabled.
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