How to remove USB write protection in Windows 10 without having to use third-party applications

You may have encountered a problem when erasing or restoring a USB device on a Windows 10 computer on occasion. The write protection message may appear at the most inopportune moment and To solve it today we are going to teach you how to remove write protection from a USB in Windows 10

Unless this failure is caused by a malfunction of the USB drive, in which case there is little we can do, this tutorial will help you solve the rest of the problems , especially if we cannot access the tab that manages write protection.

Disable write protection

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If you get the message Write-protected disk, these steps can help you avoid it. And the first thing we have to do is access the Windows registry."

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Just enter the search bar and write Regedit and click on Access as Administrator and then OK Then Windows will ask if we want to allow this application to make changes to the computer to which we say yes. "

In the registry editor we must navigate to the following location in the folder HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies andIf you do not have that folder, create it as we will see now.

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If we don&39;t have the StorageDevicePolicies folder, we can create it by entering the above path in Control>New and dialing Key to which we give the name StorageDevicePolicies."

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With this new value selected, now click with the right mouse button and in the option New we choose DWORD (32-bit) value and name it as WriteProtect. Once created, we double click on it and give it the value 0>"

With these steps, the protection will be disabled and we will be able to exit the Windows registry without any major problem.You should take into account that you are carrying out changes in the Windows registry, so you should not touch points you are not sure about.