The drive - to enable or disable write protection

The drive - to enable or disable write protection?

Hello

 

You can remove or add protection from writing to your hard drive using the method below:

a. open the start menu and in the search bar type regeditand press to enter. The Registry Editor opens.

Navigate to the following location:

b. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies

Note: If the StorageDevicePolicies registry key does not exist, you must create it manually.

c. double-click the key Write Protect in the right window and set the value to 0 for OFF , and value = 1 .

d. data area, and then press OK button

e. restart your computer and test.

 

Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems can occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you proceed with caution. For added protection, back up the registry before you edit it. Then you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

How to back up and restore the registry in Windows XP
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/322756/

 

Note: You can view the documentation for the hard drive for the parameters of the write protection.

Hope this information is useful.

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