Here we have assumed that the disk which is our USB drive causing the problem is disk 1.
Once you have identified the disk, type the command “ select disk 1”. Now identify the disk using the disk numbers assigned as shown in the picture above.All the removable devices plugged into your computer will be listed in front of you in the terminal interface. Once in elevated command prompt, type “ diskpart” and press Enter.Press Windows + R, type “ command prompt” in the dialogue box, right-click on the application and select “Run as administrator”.
We can use this utility from the command prompt and see if this solves our problem. It is used for creating a multipartition layout for removable devices such as flash drives. Solution 2: Using DiskPart Command UtilityĭiskPart is a command-line disk partitioning utility which has been there in Windows for a while. Change it to the unlocked position, plug it back into the computer and check if the problem got solved. On SD card devices, there will be a visible “white” switch while in USB devices the switch might vary. You can easily check this by removing the USB or SD card from your system and see if there are any switches on the device.
Solution 1: Toggling Physical Write Protect Switch offīefore we move on to the software related workarounds of the problem, we can check if the problem only lies with the physical write protect switch being toggled. Note: The methods listed below will probably erase all the data present on your removable device.