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How to Disable Write Protection on your Windows Computer

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Alexa Martin
How to Disable Write Protection on your Windows Computer

You may also see a message on display saying that the device is write protected.

If a USB drive is write protected, you can only view and copy the content stored into it, and can’t do anything else.

When the message pops up on the screen saying the device is write protected, set the switch to write mode.

How to disable write protection with Diskpart

There are multiple ways to disable write protection from a USB or microSD drive on a Windows computer.

Click ‘Yes’ on the User Account Control window, if prompted.

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