Copying, moving, or deleting files on a USB drive is usually straightforward. However, this may not be the case if the USB drive you're using is write-protected. As the name suggests, write protection ...

Sometimes you may receive a message saying that the Disk is write-protected when dealing with external storage devices. This may mean the registry entry is corrupt, your system administrator has ...

As an additional security layer, you can use this guide to enable write protection on Windows 10 to prevent users from copying data to a USB drive. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

I just got my Autodesk Inventor 2012 update on a really nice 16Gb usb key. Conveniently I just lost the key I carry so this would make an excellent replacement. The only problem is that it is write ...

Enabling write protection on a Universal Serial Bus drive prevents users from adding, copying or deleting data from the device. If you've inserted a USB drive into your Microsoft Windows 7 computer ...

Are you unable to format a USB drive to the FAT32 system on your Windows 11/10 computerm? Some users have reported that Windows does not let them format their USB ...

When you're unable to move or copy a file because it's write-protected, your problem may stem from a number of causes. If the file is in use by Windows or an application, the file remains locked until ...

Moreover it has to button on it for write protected. I'm going to assume you meant "no button on it". What manufacturer/model of USB drive is it? Some manufacturers do have utilities that interact on ...