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One reader mailed us asking how can he make his portable USB drive write protected so no data can be deleted or added on the pen drive, this is what he said in his mail
I want to make my drive write protected on every computer where I connect my drive
Portable drives or cards can be write protected by two ways either by physical lock provided on some of the pen drives, but locking the drive with physical lock is not a good way as any one can move the physical lock and make your drive writable.
Make Drive Write Protected With Physical Lock
Second method to make the drive write protected involves a registry hack which actually is computer dependent not the drive as it deals with registry.
Note: With this registry hack you will actually make all the removable drives connected to your computer write protected, as this registry hack instructs windows to make any removable storage device write protected.
Write Protect Instructions
Download writeprotect.bat in a zip package from here and extract the files on pen drive and double click writeprotect.bat to make your drive write protected. You will need to eject your pen drive once after launching the batch file to make your drive write protected on the computer.
Disable Write Protect Instructions
Download disablewriteprotect.bat in a zip package from here (this package is same as bove, download any of these two) and extract the files on the pen drive and double click disablewriteprotect.bat to disable write protection on your pen drive. You will need to eject your pen drive once after launching the batch file to disable write protection.
Note: I have tested these batch files on Windows XP and it should also work on windows vista too.
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This registry hack method doesn’t really mean write protecting you know..
Thats just for windoze! How can you stop the linux guys?
Wow its a miracle 
I was thinking of making this post yesterday but couldn’t found any way to it.
Thanks
Please tell if this trick makes the pendrive write-protected on every PC ? do we require to run any commands afterwards.
if not then its like thumbscrew only.
thumbscrew is good but it does not provent some one from coming and simply turning it off. is there a program that i can put on the usb and make it write protected no matter what pc i go to??????
Doing a great job dude
I want to make my computer drives (other than active) as read only. So that no body can change the content. Like CD any body can read the content but can’t write on it. Also it should be copy protected, so that my data will remain secure.
Like most people, I hate plugging in my usb pen drive into some cybercafe and have hordes of viruses invade it within a second. The pen drive is under my physical control and I just want to make it “read only” no matter which computer I plug it into. Usually, I will take material on my pendrive so that I can print it in cybercafes.
Believe it or not, I had an old pen drive that came with a physical R/W protect switch (it was really so convenient to use it in cybercafes).
I still haven’t found a good (and free) protection solution for these newer pen drives (for some reason, manufacturers have taken a retrograde step by removing this physical switch from pen drives).
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