Wednesday, October 15, 2008

How to get rid of write protected alert for flash drives

It is very simple for XP users
go to start menu click on run
type "regedit" in your run command and press enter
it will show registery editor
browse through following path
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
you will get key "WriteProtect" with value "1" just change this value to "0" and exit registery editor

you have done it
you may need to restart your windows