Enabling write protection on a Universal Serial Bus drive prevents users from adding, copying or deleting data from the device. If you've inserted a USB drive into your Microsoft Windows 7 computer ...

When copying files to a USB drive or SD card, if you receive a— Media is Write Protected —message, then this post will help you resolve the problem. The same problem can occur when deleting a file or ...

Moreover it has to button on it for write protected. I'm going to assume you meant "no button on it". What manufacturer/model of USB drive is it? Some manufacturers do have utilities that interact on ...

Businesses are growing increasingly aware of the risks associated with using portable flash media to store confidential information, and many companies are turning to various methods of encrypting or ...

Obviously, the Try again button shown in the above error box does nothing significant to fix the hitch. Due to this, you might feel that the disk is not usable and ...

I just got my Autodesk Inventor 2012 update on a really nice 16Gb usb key. Conveniently I just lost the key I carry so this would make an excellent replacement. The only problem is that it is write ...

Nexcopy Lock License USB drive as a secure, modern alternative to the outdated USB write protect switch - a firmware-level chip solution with no physical switch The USB write protect switch is simply ...

During a bit of housecleaning today, I uncovered an old USB hard drive I hadn’t used in a couple years. I decided to plug it in, check the contents, and see if it contained anything I still needed. As ...

Why it matters: Verbatim has announced a new solid-state drive designed specifically for long-term storage. The company's WOV Series is an external SSD that packs 128GB of NAND flash and connects to ...

It’s still a common feature on SD memory cards, but Angelfire has included a physical switch on its new SSD2GO PKT preventing the drives from being formatted or files being deleted. They feature ...