How to Enable and Disable Write Protection on USB Flash Drive Using Command Prompt

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Step 1:  First insert the USB Flash Drive and open the Command Prompt in Admin mode. Don’t know how to do that, then you need to visit this here. Open an Elevated Command Prompt or Open cmd as Admin

Step 2: Now type 

DISKPART 

press enter.

Step 3: Type 

LIST DISK 

and see the name of your USB Drive. Now Type 

SELECT DISK 1 (name of the drive.)

Step 4: Now type 

ATTRIBUTES DISK 

to see the current state and permissions of the drive.

Step 5:  Now to enable write protection on USB Flash Drive, just type  

ATTRIBUTES DISK SET READONLY 

and press enter. Now try adding some files to the USB drive and you can see that a message pops out saying that the disk is write protected and read-only.


Step 6:  If you want to remove or disable the write protection on USB Flash Drive, just type

ATTRIBUTES DISK CLEAR READONLY 

and press enter. Now again try adding some files and you can see everything is normal as before.