How to Fix Pen Drive Showing Write-Protected Error

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Cici· Answered on Apr 01, 2025

According to your question, I can learn that your pen drive has been write-protected. Briefly, it means that you cannot make any changes to the device, including any modification, deletion, or edition, and your data is protected in a safe way. Therefore, if you want to fix this error to modify or add any file to the device, you need to remove the write protection for your pen drive. And then, you can make some changes to the device.

In most cases, 99% of write protection on a pen drive comes from the physical lock and virtual attribute change. By figuring out the reasons behind it, it becomes easier for us to cure this problem and remove write protection successfully.

So the first method is to check the physical lock. In most cases, 99% of write protection on a pen drive comes from the physical lock and virtual attribute change. We can fix this issue and remove write protection successfully by figuring out the reasons behind it.

But if your pen drive does not have a physical switch, you can consider the second method by changing its virtual attribute. It is a third-party software: EaseUS Partition Master, which can help users fix the pen drive showing write-protected errors in a simple and quick way. Especially for those users who have little computer knowledge and are not familiar with command lines, it is a better option.

Therefore, you can have a try using this software. Here are some detailed steps for you:

Following the above steps, it is believed that your pen drive can be removed from the write protection. Besides, the EaseUS Partition Master has other helpful functions you may be interested as follows:

• Clone SD cards
• Format write protected USB

In conclusion, the EaseUS Partition Master is a good choice for you to fix the pen drive showing write protected error. Now you can try to remove the write protection for your pen drive. Good luck.