Enable or disable USB write options

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Welcome back to alltrickskindom ! Today we have bought you a very good technique which will help you in not only securing your USB drive but it will also help to secure your data inside your USB drive, This little trick in windows is very useful that you can not imagine. This simple trick will help you in Enable or disable USB write options which will help you in make your data safer.

With everybody who owns a computer seemingly having at least 1 USB pen stick or portable hard drive to hand these days, it’s now easier than ever to quickly transfer data from one machine to another. While this makes it great for portability, it does also mean that it’s easier than ever to just plug the device in to a USB port and copy files over, whether you want to allow them to be copied to a removable storage device or not.

Obviously you could go into Device Manager and disable all of your USB ports, or perhaps just the front ports on your desktop PC, but that’s not exactly the best way to go about it. While it does work, those USB ports are completely inaccessible until you go back into Device Manager and they are enabled again.

Microsoft have thought of this scenario, and there is an option in Windows that allows you make

USB storage devices read only. By design though, this option is not available in an obvious place like the Control Panel, it’s not even available in the Group Policy Editor. It’s a switch inside a registry key in the registry.

This technique is also very helpful for computer geeks, If you want to make a Bootable USB drive for windows 7/8/8.1/10 or other operating systems then this method of disabling you writing option after making a bootable disk for windows/ other OS’s will make your windows files safer for a long period of time in your Pendrive, until-unless you are Enabling the writing rights on your USB drive and deleting or formatting the data inside your USB drive.

Steps For Enable or disable USB write options:-

If you prefer to edit the registry and do it yourself, it’s pretty easy and only involves creating and editing a single key value.

1. Go to Start -> Run -> Type regedit and hit Enter or click on the OK button. For Vista and 7 go to Start -> type regedit into the search box, hold Ctrl+Shift and press Enter. Ctrl+Shift opens regedit as Administrator.

2. Browse to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

Look for a key in Control called StorageDevicePolicies. If you have a key with that name go to step

4. If not, follow step 3.


3. You need to create a new key called StorageDevicePolicies. Right click on Control, select New -> Key and type in StorageDevicePolicies. Make sure not to include any spaces before or after.


4. Right click on the StorageDevicePolicies key and select New -> DWORD Value, or DWORD (32-bit) Value for 64-bit operating systems, and call it WriteProtect. Double click on WriteProtect and set the value from 0 to 1.

This will prevent users from writing to USB drives with the message “The media is write protected”.

The procedure to allow writing again to USB storage devices is simply setting the Write Protect value back to 0. To avoid any potential issues it’s best to perform this procedure while you don’t have a USB storage device plugged in. Although I simply unplugged my USB stick and reinserted it for the registry change to take effect, it might avoid any other problems that might occur.
The good thing about this is you don’t need to restart, I’ve been able to test this method several times without rebooting either XP or Windows 7 once. This is confirmed to work perfectly fine on Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit.


There is another option for this is:-
If you want to get rid of this troublesome things then we are providing you some registry keys that will work for you on single clicks for enabling and disabling your USB drive

1. Download EnableOrDisableUSBWrite  .zip file.
2. Extract these files anywhere you want.
3. Now double click DisableUSBWrite.reg for disabling write options on your connected USB drive.
4. And for Enabling Just click on the Other EnableUSBWrite.reg File for enabling write options  on your Usb drive.