How to Format Write Protected Memory Card or Universal Serial Bus (USB)

Hey my friends in this article i'm going to show you how you can format a write protected usb or a memory card. Most of us our friends facing the issue of Write Protected disk when they plug in their USB or a memory card. When they plugged in a pop up window come and show "The Disk is Write Protected". Many friends thought that our usb or a memory is corrupted or not for use now. But this is a myth it has a solution that i will tell you people in this amazing article.

Are you facing the same problem that i have? A pop up window appear and shows me the warning that a dist is write protected. 

Some people lock their usb or a memory card so that their usb become write protected and they don't loss their important data. But sometimes the usb or a memory card becomes write protected due to some virus or any thing else.

When your USB is in write protected state you can't format it if you will try to format it than it will show the warning again. So now you want  a solution of this problem.

Remove Write Protected In USB

There are umber of ways to format write protected usb but there are 6 ways that are much popular to format usb that is in protected state.

Switch Off Lock of USB

The first method is simple when you enable lock to your usb it become locked and now it is Write protected so you have to switch off the usb lock and you are done. Now you can plug your usb in your pc and format is easily.

CleanUp USB by Antivirus

Sometimes your usb become write protected due to some virus attack in this condition you have to scan your usb with a good antivirus so that it can detect the virus and remove it so that your usb can come into the normal state from write protected state.

There is the list of some good antivirus you can try

• Windows Defender
• Avast
• Avera
• McaFee

Using CMD Remove Write Protected

You can remove write protected issue from your usb by using cmd. To do this you have to follow some steps.

• Press Windows Button+R to open Run
• Type cmd and hit Enter
• Type the commands one by one

diskpart

list disk

select disk #

attributes disk clear readonly

After typing these command let cmd to remove write protection from your usb.

Change Write Protected Usb to Normal

Sometime you mistakenly change the usb state to Read Only by this you can not write anything in your usb. To remove read only from your usb you have to follow steps...

• Put your USB or memory in your pc/Laptop Slot
• Goto the windows explorer and select the usb drive that is write protected
• Right click on it and go to the properties
• Here you have to find General Tab Uncheck the Read Only and click on Apply and Ok to finish the write protected issue

Format The USB

After applying the methods on your usb your usb will become normal and now it is not write protected. The last thing that you have to do is now you have to forma the usb and enjoy.