My pen drive is write protected - Kingston 4GB Secure Digital High Capacity Memory Card

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USB Safeguard is a portable software program to encrypt and protect data with a password on your removable pen drives using the AES 256 bits encryption.

The main purpose of using a USB pen drive is that you can bring your data with you wherever you go. But if you lose your USB pen drive your data also lose.

This is dangerous if you have confidential files stored in it. Protect the pen drive with a password. USB Safeguard offers users (novice and expert) a friendly yet extremely powerful security solution that fully protects valuable data stored on USB pen drives.

Also, the program has a useful feature that allows you to enter your email or phone if you lose the pen drive. Free version works only with USB Flash drive of size max 2 GB

hope it helps you

Hi Sir.
Please look carefully at your usb pen-drive to see if there is a small switch on there somewhere that is used to lock and unlock the drive. perhaps you may have accidentally put it in the lock position.
If there is a laser pointer on the drive then using the laser pointer may have caused you to accidentally switch to the write protected mode. most drives have a lock/unlock switch on the pen-drive itself...unless it has a program installed on the drive that has encrypted and locked the drives read/write ability. Please let me know if you have success.
Thank you!

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The write protected message appears due to many reasons detailed steps to fix the issue can be found from the following link
http://www.troublefixers.com/remove-write-protection-on-usb-pen-drive-or-memory-card-or-ipod/

Hi,
Please open the link below and follow the instructions there to resolve the issue if the problem persist after following the instructions then pen drive is defective.

http://techsalsa.com/solution-to-remove-write-protection-from-usb-pen-drive/

Dear,
Just do one thing
Copy the data of Pen drive to PC and format the drive. Now paste the data back to the pen drive.
It may work fine onward.

Please try it.

Regards,
Rakesh Kumar

if u format ur pen drive. then use this step
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Check out the registry under:

1)click on start button
2)clik on run dialog box
3)type regedit
4) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies.
The value 'WriteProtect' should be absent or set to '0' and when you try to format it you have to format it as FAT16

Good Luck!!
Palwinder

I OWN A TRANSCEND pen drive of 8gb when i try to copy or format the command it shows is "cannot create,remove the write protected"what shall i do .the pen drive is very new

i cant format it