This is quite common question we had received from many readers who wants to make their drive write protected or read only on any public computer so that nothing goes into their drive without permission.

Normally people want to make their removable and other portable drive read only to keep their drive safe from being infected by viruses.

There are lot of viruses which could enter your pen drives through various public computers, but there are many free tools which can help you protect pen drives and other portable drives from viruses and worms which spread through pen drives.

Read Also: Remove Write Protection On USB Pen Drive or Memory Card or iPod 

Let’s discuss all the tools which can make your pen drive read only when ever you want

See Also: Disable data writing on your USB drive to protect it from viruses 

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There are several free tool in this category which makes any company pen drive or any other portable drive write protected by applying a simple registry hack.

1. Thumbscrew – It is free to use small utility which makes your drive write protected so that any virus, trojan or any other malware cannot enter in your drive.

After downloading the program, you just need to right click the system tray icon to make your drive write protected.

Additional Tip: Problem in formatting pen drive

2. USB Write Protector – It is again a free program which can help you make your pen drive protected, you can carry this utility on your pen drive and make your drive protect with this small free program.

See Also: Protect Folders On USB Pen Drive – Access Denied To Others 

Tip: If your pen drive contains the physical lock you don’t need utilities like these you can make it protected with the physical switch easily.

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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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