★★★Before proceeding to the following methods, you can check out whether your disk (especially the USB drive) has a physical write-protection switch on its exterior, it might be in the wrong locked position.

Here we will present how to format write-protect disk in Windows using the Registry Editor, Command Prompt, as well as a professional disk formatting tool. What’s worse, the disk cannot be formatted with 'The disk is write-protected' error. When your disk is write-protected, you will not be able to modify files, add files to your drive or delete files from it because of the restrictions associated with permissions and sharing. How do you format a drive that is write-protected? How can I format my write protect USB? Please help me!” When Formatting is complete 100% again, message 'The operation did not complete because the media is write protected' appears again. I have already tried to insert the pendrive, go to the Disk Management, right click the removable disk, select Format option. “When I format my USB any time, an error message 'The disk is write protected' will pop out.

Failed to format the write-protected disk!

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