How to Format a Write Protected Disk

brianzion said:

oh i forgot you said you had a virus. on the pc what anti virus software do you have? can you connect the drive without it booting up and run a scan on it?

I have Kaspersky internet security 2011 and its up-to-date.

SIW2 said:

Do you have this key?

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies

WITH A WRITE PROTECT VALUE OF 1

No i don't have that kind of key in my registry. My OS registry only has HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\storage" key. If i create a "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies" then what is it left hand site key name

If he already had the value set to 1 - that might be why it is protected.

He could try creating the dword and setting to 0 and see if that helps. Not sure it will.

It is likely the virus is protecting itself.

Otherwise - if he has checked his PM - he would have fixed it by now.

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Bill2 said:

When i run this apps it shows "USB flash drive not found" error. My pen has 42 Trojan horses, I have kaspersky internet security but its can't delete or disinfect that Trojan horses because of pen drive write protected. So please help me.

Wow, 42 Trojans! Are they all Windows based? If so, I would either find someone with a Linux installation or download a live version, such as Knoppix or Puppy Linux, burn to CD, boot from the CD and format the pen drive from there - no way to hurt your Windows drive if you don't mount it.

Regards,
GEWB

brianzion said:

i thought the value is 0 (Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies. Change the value for the key "WriteProtect" to 0)

What type of key should i create in "StorageDevicePolicies" key ,( ex-DWORD key or "QWORD" key or "String" key or other one). Please tell me it i have no idea for that.