Windows 10: diskpart to remove readonly from flash drive. shows disk attributes cleared successfully ....

Please help.sandisk usb drive write protection problem

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Removing Write Protection

Have you tried diskpart?

diskpart
list disk
select disk x
attributes disk clear readonly





Setting readonly on a friend's flash drive is also a fun and quite simple prank. (Only works on NTFS, not FAT)

 

Drive is write protected and cant clear readonly or repair

My computer crashed and booted to BIOS. All windows recovery and repair tools failed. I booted from an old sata drive.

The drive I have is a 1 year old Samsung 970 evo m.2 nvme and it appears to be write protected.

Diskpart does not appear to be able to clear this:

DISKPART> select disk 1



Disk 1 is now the selected disk.



DISKPART> attributes disk

Current Read-only State : Yes

Read-only : No

Boot Disk : No

Pagefile Disk : No

Hibernation File Disk : No

Crashdump Disk : No

Clustered Disk : No



DISKPART> attributes disk clear readonly



Disk attributes cleared successfully.



DISKPART> attributes disk

Current Read-only State : Yes

Read-only : No

Boot Disk : No

Pagefile Disk : No

Hibernation File Disk : No

Crashdump Disk : No

Clustered Disk : No

The windows drive error checking tool finds errors "Windows found errors on this drive that need to be repaired" but the and chkdsk can not check for bad sectors or repair drive because its write protected.

C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk D: /f

The type of the file system is NTFS.

Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected.



C:\Windows\system32> chkdsk D: /f /r /x

The type of the file system is NTFS.

Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected.



C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk D:/r

The type of the file system is NTFS.

Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected.



The suggestion to remove write protection via Registry Editor also appears to have no affect. This is an internal nvme so i dont think there is a physical write protection switch that I am missing. I am stuck in this loop of cant repair because write protected, cant remove write protection because drive needs to be repaired.

 

Flash Drive is write protected

See if you can clear the write protection using diskpart command.

Code:

Replace number zero with disk number of the flash drive.