How to format a write-protected USB flash drive or memory card

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Some memory cards and USB pen drives have write protectionswitches, which allows you to prevent files from being deleted, or any new files being written to the device. It also prevents the drive or card from being formatted.

Here are a couple of methods you can try to format the driveand remove the write protection. Bear in mind that there is no guarantee that they will work for you: your drive or memory card may be corrupt or broken and no utility or low-level formatting tool will make it work again. The only solution in this case is to buy a new drive.

How can I format a write-protected USB flash drive or 
memory card?

1. Click Star then Type: regedit

2. Navigate to the following key.

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies

3. Double-click on the WriteProtect value in the right-hand pane of Regedit.exe
4. Change the Value data from 1 to 0 and click OK to save the change.
5. Close Regedit and restart your computer.
6. Connect your USB drive again, and you should find it is no longer write protected.

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How To Make Undeletable, Unrenamable Folders In Windows

Have you ever wondered how you can make a folder which neither can be deleted nor be renamed. Well, if you have, then you have come to the right place. With this trick, you will be able to create folders in Windows which cannot be renamed or deleted.

Basic Concept
The basic concept behind this trick is the use of Keywords. Keywords are reserved words in any programminglanguage that cannot be used as names of variables. Windows also uses certain keywords in its programming. Some of them are con, aux, lpt1, lpt2, lpt3, lpt4, lpt5, lpt6, lpt7, lpt8 and lpt9.

In this tutorial you will learn cool and simple trick to Create an undeletable and unrenamable Folders Inwindow operating system. Most of the Peoples are not aware that it is possible to create Undeletable, Unrenamablefolder in windows without any software. To Test this concept just follow simple steps given below.

How to make undeleteable and unrenameable folders in windows?

1. Go to Start and Click Run
2. Type cmd and hit Enter (To open Command Prompt)
3. Remember you cannot create Undeletable & unrenamable folder in your root directory (i.e. where the windows isinstalled) That means you can't make this kind of folder in C: drive if you installed windows on C:
4. Type D: or E: and hit enter
5. Type md con\ and hit enter (md - make directory)
6. You may use other words such as aux, lpt1, lpt2, lpt3 up to lpt9 instead of con in above step.
7. Open that directory, you will see the folder created of name con.
8. Try to delete that folder or rename that folder windows will show the error message.

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