Windows 10: How to only write protect a single partition on USB flash drive

Discus and support How to only write protect a single partition on USB flash drive in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; Hi. I am looking (so far unsuccessfully) for a way to write-protect (set as read only) a single partition (i.e. a volume) of my usb pen so that the... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by soewhaty, Mar 12, 2019.

  1. SOEWHATY
    soewhaty Win User

    How to only write protect a single partition on USB flash drive


    Hi. I am looking (so far unsuccessfully) for a way to write-protect (set as read only) a single partition (i.e. a volume) of my usb pen so that the write protection (read-only) carries thru when I use it on other machines.

    My point is that I have a usb pen that I carry around and work on on various machines. I've partitioned the pen in 2 partitions so one is where I work on (I write on) and the other is my own database, which I want to lock as read-only. Reason being is that the various machines I work on have anti-vir systems and those go ahead, scans my pen and deletes my private stuff on it (even delete files inside archives [Kaspersky did that]).

    DISKPART and 'att vol set readonly' does not work - says 'operation not supported on removable media'.

    To narrow things down - I'm only working on Windows 7 and 10 machines, no other OS.

    As I said - I don't want to set the whole disk(drive) as read-only. Instead I want to set a single partition (volume) from it as read-only.

    :)
     
    soewhaty, Mar 12, 2019
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  2. FERNANDZ
    Fernandz Win User

    How To Format A Write Protected Flash Memory ?

    ¿You already tried this one?...

    Run CMD


    1. diskpart
    2. list disk

    Then in the 3º step, put the correct number of disk in the list for the usb flash (if it's listed in disk 3, then you'll have to write select disk 3).

    2. select disk #
    3. clean
    4. create partition primary
    5. select partition 1
    6. active
    7. format fs=fat32
    8. assign
    9. exit

    with that commands you will format the flash drive in fat32, if you have a large drive you can select also "format fs=ntfs" in step 7.

    good luck!
     
    Fernandz, Mar 12, 2019
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  3. REV. CARL BOWERS
    Rev. Carl Bowers Win User
    USB flash drive write protected

    How can I remove write protection on a USB flash drive?
     
    Rev. Carl Bowers, Mar 12, 2019
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  4. DIPROMUHTASIM
    DiproMuhtasim Win User

    How to only write protect a single partition on USB flash drive

    Write Protection of EMTEC 64GB USB flash drive

    My EMTEC 64 GB flash drive is Write protected .I tried all the available solution on internet but it doesn't fix.After inserting the flash drive it does't show the capacity of the flash drive.Only shows the Drive name and everything
    is slow down.What is the problem?Is it in hardware or software?

    How to remove this write protection from my usb flash drive?Help me out.
     
    DiproMuhtasim, Mar 12, 2019
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