Remove Write Protection from usb in Windows XP

Have you ever encountered a error message in windows when opening a Pen-drive or flash drive showing the message THE DISK IS WRITE PROTECTED.REMOVE THE WRITE-PROTECTION OR USE ANOTHER DISK.
This some times pops-up when you tries to open a USB Drive.
In this article i will show you a few ways to solve this problem.

1. Check Permissions 
a) Open My Computer, right click on your USB Drive and select Properties.
b) In the properties window, select the security tab.
c) Select the 'user' under user name and click on 'Edit'.
d) If Unchecked, check the option "Full" for full permissions or "write" for write permissions only.

2.Modify a registry key.
 Note: Please take a back of your registry before proceeding
 a) Open start menu--> Run.or press windows key + R and press Enter
b) Type regedit and press enter, this will open the registry editor
c) Navigate to the following path

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies

if you can't find the key StorageDevicePolicies, then you have to create it manually for this 
1)Right click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentcontrolSet\Control\ and select New .>key
2)Enter the name StorageDevicePolicies.
3)click on the new registry key that you've created,and on the right pane right-click, select New >DWORD and give it the name WriteProtect
4)Double click on it and set its value to 0 

d)  Exit the registry and reboot your pc and you are done

3.Using Diskpart
a) Open start menu--> Run.or press windows key + R and press Enter
b) Type diskpart > enter
c) Type list disk > enter
d) Type select disk # (where # is the number of usb hdd you've plugged in )
e) type attributes disk clear readonly
 

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