How To Remove Write Protection From Your Pendrive?? METHOD - 1 open registry and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicy and look for WriteProtect in the right pane. double click it and change value to 1 from 0 METHOD - 2 Try This Using Command Prompt(CMD) Type diskpart and press <enter>. Type list volume and press <enter>. Type select volume x -where x is the number of the drive that's giving you the write protected error. Type attributes disk clear readonly and press <enter>. Type exit and press <enter>.