About SanDisk
SanDisk is an outstanding manufacturer of flash memory storage devices, which
provides many storage solutions for different usage such as SanDisk flash drive,
memory card, microSD card, SSD drive and so on. And now, this flash memory
corporation has been acquired by hard drive manufacturer Western Digital.
SanDisk Write Protected Problem Overview
Once, you may be frustrated by the SanDisk write protected error message like
this:
I have a problem with my SanDisk Cruzer 8GB USB flash drive, every time I
plug it in my computer and try to modify the data on it, but it’s saying that
it’s write protected. How to remove write protection from SanDisk Cruzer
Blade?
Why do I get a “the disk is write protected” information when I try to
transfer files to my microSD card?
Today I get a new SanDisk SSD drive, and it’s uninitialized. And I try to
format it with Disk Management and failed due to an I/O error, and then I can’t
create partition on SSD drive using DISKPART command because it’s write
protected. How should I deal with?
Or other SanDisk storage device is write protected problems.
For many users, how to figure out what causes this situation while you’re not an
expert?
The Causes
The cause to SanDisk write protection error varies, you should find the root cause
for SanDisk write protected, then fix it.
These causes should take responsible for the Write protection error:
Write protect switch is on the lock position. Please unlock SanDisk microSD
card, USB flash drive, etc.
The device is infected by virus, and other attack.
The file system is corrupted due to some unknown reason.
The value of Windows registry key is incorrect.
Your Sandisk USB drive, flash drive, SD card, SSD or pen drive is dead.
Thus, you should know the most urgent thing is to remove the write protection. How to
remove?
How to Remove Write Protection from SanDisk?
There are beyond three ways to solve this problem, here we are going to introduce the
best two ways for SanDisk write protection error: CMD command and SanDisk write protected removal
tool.
Way1: CMD commmand
Remove write protection with CMD command: DISKPART or REGEDIT.
DISKPART
Input diskpart in the Windows search box, press enter.
Type list disk.
Type select disk n, where n is the number of write protected
SanDisk USB flash drive, microSD, SSD, etc.
Type attributes disk clear readonly.
Re-plug the SanDisk USB flash drive or other storage devices into your computer,
check if the SanDisk write protected issue is solved.
REGEDIT
Input regedit in Windows search box, and then press
enter.
Locate the following path in Registry Editor:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
If the StorageDevicePolicies doesn’t exist, create it manually.
Then double click WriteProtect and set the value from 1
to 0, then press OK.
Restart your computer, and re-plug the SanDisk USB flash drive or other storage
devices into your computer, check whether the issue is solved or not.
Way 2: SanDisk Write Protected Removal tool
The best way to remove write protection from SanDisk is to format it with write
protection removal tool. So, how to find the best software to remove write
protection from SanDisk pen drive, SD card, SSD and other storage devices?
We highly recommended AOMEI Partition Assistant to format SanDisk Cruzer Glide, USB
drive, etc. It works well with SanDisk USB flash drive, microSD card, memory card,
SSD drive, and other storage devices. AOMEI Partition Assistant is an easy-to-use
disk partitioning tool, which applied to Windows operating system, including Windows
Vista, XP, 7, 8, 8.1, 10.
Following we will work you through the details about how to format SanDisk write
protected devices.
Step 1: Connect SanDisk USB, SD card, SSD or other devices with your
computer. Download SanDisk write protection removal
software, install and run this program. On the main console, click the SanDisk USB
flash drive, SD card or other devices, choose Format Partition at
the left panel. Or right click it, then select Format Partition at
the drop down menu.

Step 2: Edit the parameters of the partition, including Partition
Label, File System, and Cluster Size.
Then Click OK to continue.

Note: All the data on the SanDisk USB flash drive, SD card, SSD and
other devices will be wiped out, ensure you have backed up the important data in
advance.
Step 3: Overview the result at the Pending
Operations, and then press Apply to remove write
protected.

A few seconds later, you will find the SanDisk write protection has been removed with
SanDisk write protected removal tool. If not, maybe your SanDisk USB drive, SSD, SD
card, pen drive or other storage devices could be dead, you have to change a new
one. In addition, you can convert USB between
NTFS and FAT32 without losing data. Besides, this software also allows you
to resize, move, split, merge, copy partitions for SanDisk USB drive, pen drive,
SSD, SD card, allocate free space, command line partitioning, etc. The freeware you could
try if needed. For server needs, you couild download the AOMEI Partition
Server to take a shoot.