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Kingston Pen drive Showing Write Protection Issue

Apr 21, 2015 5:42PM PDT

Hi,

I have 8GB Kingston pen drive, due to some problem it showing write protection error message when I plug in to computer or laptop. Please guide me how can I handle the problem, I want to my marriage video from it. It is very important for me please help me as soon as possible.

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Re: pen drive
Apr 21, 2015 5:57PM PDT

If it's write protected for some reason, you should still be able to read it and copy the video off before you throw it away. Otherwise, you surely have a backup of such an important video.

If none of the two, find a data recovery company to get to get that file for you.

Kees

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Kingston Pen drive Showing Write Protection Issue
Apr 21, 2015 7:27PM PDT

Hi you can resolve the problem through the regedit.exe, follow this instruction

Go to "Run" windows and write "regedit" then press enter

Navigate to this path "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Storage"

Once you reached this following location from the right pane, you will get the "Write Protected" option

Now choose this and right click on it and then click on "Modify" option

Now Edit DWord value wizard window will open, now check the figure amount of "Value data" if it shows 1.1 then 100% confirm your pen drive is write protected. It's very simple to fix this problem by replacing the 1.1 digit number with 0 because "Zero" digit number signify that "Don't Write Protected mu pen drive".

Once you successfully replace 1.1 numbers with 0 digit then, exit from the registry wizard. Now once again you need to plug in your pen drive.

Hope this procedure helps you to fix write protected problem from the Kingston pen drive incase this method doesn't work then you need to take help third party software for getting your video back. You can try out Kingston pen drive recovery tool http://www.pendrive-datarecovery.com/kingston