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How to remove write protection from a USB flash drive

How-to-remove-write-protection-from-a-USB-flash-driveHow to remove write protection from a USB flash drive :-

Have you faced the situation of write protection in your office PC ? I really faced this situation in my new office laptop provided by my organization. 🙁  Actually, organizations are always disabling the USB protection on their PC to provide PC protection.

Today i am going to Show you how to remove the Write protection on USB drive implemented by the Windows group Policy.

With Windows Server 2008 & Windows 7, Microsoft comes with a new feature of implementing policy on Removable Storage. Actually whenever we are applying group policy, it’s changing the registry value.

To remove the USB protection, open the Registry editor ( Run > regedit) and navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Windows \ Removable Storage Devices

double-click on each value and change Deny_Write and Deny_Read value to 1 to 0.

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Now navigate to C:\Windows\ INF . Search for “USBTOR” and right-click on it select properties option and click on the Security tab and make sure you have Allow permission to your user or everyone.

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Now reboot your PC. Now your USB device is working. 🙂

If it’s still not working then navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor
in the right-pane, double-click on the Start value and change this value to 3 .

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