Remove Write Protection On Memory Cards and USB Drives

Many times we see some write protection error while using memory cards and USB drive. These errors may include write protection errors as you can see in the snap below.

This type of problem caused by virus. Few months back, i also faced the same problem. So i found a nice solution. 

There are two ways of doing this

1. Using Registry Editor
2. Using PenDrive repair tool
3. Apacer Formatting Utility

Using Registry Editor

In this method, we will change some values in window registry. TO do this follow these steps:

• Open Registry Editor by clicking on Star Menu --> Run. Now type “regedit” in run dialog box and you will see your Registry Editor opened.
• Now Navigate to the following path in the registry editor:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
• If there is no StorageDevicePolicies key in your system then download this .Reg File and double click on it. Now restart your computer and it will add Storage DevicePolicies key in your windows registry.
• Now double click on the WriteProtect and make its value 0 and than click OK.
• Now close registry editor and restart your system.
• Now plug your memory card or USB in and enjoy non write protected memory card.

Repair Usb drive using Pen drive repair

This is another solution of the problem in which your USB drive shows write protection error.  Download this tool and format your USB drive or memory card with th help of this. After formating your USB drive or memory card will start work fine.

Pen drive repair_v_2.9.1.1 free download and remove write protection from pendrive

Follow these steps and use this tool.

1. Download Pen Drive repair from the above link and extract in your system.
2. Plug in memory card or USB drive which you want to repair.
3. Now run the tool and format the USB drive or memory card with the help of this.
4. It will remove all the protection.

Apacer Formatting Utility

If you are unable to resolve your problem with the help of above methods, then you can try this nice tool Apacer Formatting Utility.

This also works in the same way Pen Drive repair works. Follow these steps and use it

1. Download Apacer Formatting Utility to your computer and extract in your system.
2. Plug in USB drive or memory card and then double click on the Start.bat. It will then format your USB drive.
3. After formatting your card has been free from the write protection

Add a Recycle Bin to your USB Flash Drive

We all use USB flash drives to carry our data with us. We also use these flash drive to work on other people's computer. While working on other computers using your own usb flash drive, if you delete a file it will be sent to the windows's recycle bin. What if you wish to recover that file when you are not on the same system. Sometimes, this type of conditions can be panic. 
Having a recycle bin in your flash drive is a nice idea which will store all the data deleted from the flash drive.
iBin is a nice tool which create a different recycle bin in your flash drive. Download this file and put it in the flash drive. When you are working on some other person's computer, Run the ibin.exe file from the flash drive. Now delete files by pressing the Windows Key + Delete. Remember the shortcut keys. It is important When this shortcut key is pressed, any deleted file will be sent to the Flash Drive Recycle Bin instead of the Windows Recycle Bin. 

If you press delete button only. files will be sent to the window's recycle bin. So it is important to take care of the shortcut keys.
You can access all deleted files inside the iBin folder in Flash drive. You can also access those files by opening the iBin container folder to display a window like the one shown above.

How to use USB device in windows Virtual machine

Windows virtual PC supports USB 2.0 devices. But you can use it on the virtual system by 2 ways. one is sharing device with virtual machine and other is redirecting the device to virtual machine. At the installation time of virtual machine, storage devices are automatically shared with virtual machines on a physical computer. But you need to redirect other type of USB devices such as webcam, mp3 players and PDA etc.


redirection of a device is also easy. Follow these simple steps.

1. Attach the device on the system.
2. In the virtual machine, click on USB and then attach. 
3. Then it will install the device drivers. Now you can use the device on the virtual machine. But after the use of the device you must be release it.
4. TO release the device back to your host window, click on the USB and then click on release.

Portable desktop search tool for USB drives

You have a portable hard drive and you carry it with you where ever you go. But finding a file it on a system can cause you a problem because you can not search it from the windows search tool. because it is not indexed yet. In that case, suppose you have 500 GB external hard drive and you do not know how to search for a file in inside the hard drive. You can not wait for windows to index files for searching. In this case i have a better solution.
There is a search utility for this tyoe of problems named DropOut. It is a portanle application that makes it easier to search your USB. This is a windows tool and you only need to copy this dropout.exe in your USB disk's root.
Now you can search the whole disk with it anytime anywhere.
It creates it's own index at first run inside the USB and search index updates itself whenever you run Dropout next so your new / updated files are automatically included.

Features:

1. Super fast searching <1sec
2. Totally portable
3. Search multiple directories
4. Exclude files
5. Incremental indexing of files
6. Background indexing allows you to search during indexing
7. Indexing ALL text files
8. Search history via auto complete
9. Sorting of result list
10. Only .NET 2.0 required
11. Single exe created using IL-Merge
12. Configurable via ini file (not required)
13. Open the file from the interface
14. Open the containing directory from the interface

How to automatically backup USB drives

How to automatically backup USB drives

Usb flash drives are the most used devices for data storage and carry. But they are  still susceptible to physical damage and breakage from falls, electrostatic discharge and data corruption if a device is removed while data is still being copied. 
It's good to have data backup of your important data to prevent these type of damages. 
USB Flash COpy is a free tool for autobackup of data from your flash drives each time you connect it in pc. No installation is needed and it's only a 300kb download. run it to set a particular folder on your computer's hard drive for backups (by default, it makes a backup folder in 'My Documents' ). 

How to Write Protect a USB Flash Drive

How to Write Protect a USB Flash Drive 

If you want to write protect your USB drive, you can do it with the given registry trick or batch script. Protecting USB drive depends on Registry, and you can do it manually or by the script. Read below. Mannual way is also given along with batch script


Manually:
1- Start > Run > type “regedit” to open regisry editor
2- Navigate to this: HKey_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControl
3- Create a new key with the name “StorageDevicePolicies”
4- On the right side, Create a new “DWORD Value” with thr name “WriteProtect” and give it “1" as Data
5- Then put the USB Flash Drive.
6- Try to Delete a file Or Copy something to it, You will not be able to do that.
7- To disable this feature, just change the data from 1 To 0


The Batch Script :