Friday, June 17, 2011

Remove Write Protection from external Hard disk


Hi All,

Sometimes you face the problem that when you try to remove few files or directories from your external hard-disk, it says that if you want to modify it, please remove write protection from external hard disk. So here is the simple solution, I also found it on some discussion forum.
Step 1. Start -> Run -> regedit.exe
Step 2. Go to
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\StorageDevicePolicies
If StorageDevicePolicies is not there then create a new key. 
Step 3Now Click on StorageDevicePolicies and on the right-hand side there should be a DWORD value labelled "WriteProtect".
Step 4Do the same with the following two locations (creating any non-existent keys/values along the way):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control


I hope this will help.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

what if there is no storagedevicepolicies?
how to create new key?