How to Format a Write Protected USB Pendrive

How to Remove USB Write Protection With Diskpart

• Insert your Pendrive into your computer’s USB port.
• You can open this by hitting Windows key + R, entering cmd, then hitting Enter.

• diskpart

• list disk

• select disk 2

• attributes disk

• attributes disk clear readonly

• Then you lose the data on the USB flash drive? You can format the drive using diskpart’s clean command. First, ensure the disk is selected:

• select disk 2

• clean

• You can then create and format a partition:

• create partition primary
  format fs=ntfs

Didn’t Work? USB Formatting Utilities to Try

1. SD Formatter

Simply connect the device, select the drive and a formatting option, and click Format.

Download: SDFormatter (Free)

2. Kingston Format Utility

Download: Kingston Format Utility (Free)