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How to Repair Your Flash Drive
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First, submit a service case on our website. You will NOT need to pay any service costs before sending your drive.
Under Media Type, select “USB Flash Drive”. Fill in as much additional information as you can about the flash drive repair. Go to the next page, where you will be prompted to log in or create an account.
We will instruct you on how to send your device to us.
We will let you know when we receive it. We will then perform diagnostics; this takes 1-2 business days. If your flash drive qualifies for the $60 service, we will proceed with the repair. If your flash drive has more severe issues, we will contact you with other options, or you can elect to have it returned to you with no cost for the diagnostics.
We will repair or replace any components covered by this service. (See FAQ.) This can take up to ten business days. We will email you to confirm the repair has taken place.
Your device will be shipped back to you, and you can then use a computer to access your files. Or, we can extract your files onto another device for you for an additional cost.
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For $60, we will repair your faulty USB interface/connector and/or controller chip to restore data access. This service does not include fixes for issues such as firmware corruption or an outright controller failure, which will require removal of the memory chip. If any of these other problems are present, we will offer to fix them if possible, but the cost will be higher.
What if my drive is not eligible for the $60 repair?
If your flash drive has further damage and requires removal of the memory chip, that is a more advanced repair. In this case, we will contact you to let you know how much those services would cost. You may then either accept or have your flash drive sent back to you. You will not be responsible for the $60 fee.
We are an innovative data recovery company that wants to help you get your data back. We have decades of combined experience in data recovery, and we are committed to making the process as easy and pleasant as possible.
Diagnostics take 1-2 business days to determine eligibility. The repair service may then take up to an additional 10 business days. An emergency 24-hour option is available upon request for an additional cost.
How will I know if my flash drive will work when I get it back?
Upon completion of the service, we will test the USB connection to ensure it can be recognized by a computer.
No. Our equipment used for this service blocks our technicians from any data access. The only tool available is LBA access check to ensure you can get to your data. By servicing Client media, Outsource enters in a full non-disclosure agreement with its Client.
Is the Flash Drive Repair Service available at all locations?
The $60 Repair Service is only offered at our main lab in the United States. Our European lab in Germany only offers data recovery services.
Oct 16, 2020 • Filed to: USB Recovery • Proven solutions
How do I remove write protection from a SanDisk flash drive?
Hello all, I got a message reading 'The disk is write-protected' whenever I inserted my SanDisk pen drive to my computer. I was unable to disable the write protection on my flash drive. Can anyone help me? Thanks.
What Is a Read-Only Flash Drive?
Once you get similar messages like the following ones when using the SanDisk flash drive, it means the pen drive becomes read-only and write-protected. You're unable to edit data, delete files, or save information on this drive, unless you find the fixes.
- The common error of 'The disk is write-protected' will occur when you trying to format an external disk such as (USB flash drive, SD memory card, or pen drive).
- If you start to copy or modify the files on the drive, the pop-up window show you 'The disk is write-protected. Remove this write-protection or use another disk'.
- A read-only flash drive won't allow you to copy the file. When you want to do that, a message might appear - 'You cannot copy files to the volume'.
Why Is My USB Drive Read Only?
Formating the file system of the flash drive can cause the write protection. Usually, a pen drive uses the NTFS file system on a Windows computer. You can keep writing and reading data stored inside it. However, sometimes you might want to use it on a Mac computer. So you format the flash memory stick to make it compatible with the Mac computer. The file system is indeed readable and the stored data is accessible on a Mac computer due to the Mac feature. However, writing data is not available. The write protection is added on the USB flash drive by default.
How do I disable write protection on a flash drive? Here, we offer both Windows and Mac solutions to help you fix write-protected flash drives easily and quickly.
How to Remove Write Protection from USB Flash Drive on Windows
How do I remove write protection from a USB drive in Windows 10?
If your USB disk gets this error on Windows computer, you may think the USB drive is broken and unable to use. The flash drive becomes a read-only situation, and you cannot manage data on it, like copying, deleting or writing the files on the disk. How to remove the write protection from a read-only flash drive? On the next guide, we will show you how to disable write protection from flash drive, SD card or pen drive in Windows 10/8/7.
Solution 1: Diskpart Command
- Step 1. Connect your flash drive to the computer, and launch a command prompt by searching for cmd.exe or 'Command Prompt' in the Start menu.
- Step 2. Type the following and press Enter after each command: diskpart, list disk, select disk #(# means the name of your write-protected disk), attributes disk clear readonly, clean, create partition primary, format fs=ntfs.
- Step 3. Exit the Command Prompt.
After this, your USB flash drive should now work well. If it doesn't work, you can also follow the next steps to fix write-protected USB drive with Regedit.exe.
Solution 2: Regedit.exe
- Step 1. Press key of Windows Key + R and type regedit in Run dislog box and Enter.
- Step 2. On the pop-up window Registry Editor, go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlStorageDevicePolicies.
- Step 3. Double click the WriteProtect value in the right pane.
- Step 4. You can change the value data from 1 to 0, then click OK to save the change, and close the Regedit window.
- Step 5. Restart your computer and connect the USB drive to it. Check if the drive is working well and no longer write-protected. If it isn't read-only now, you can continue using the USB flash drive.
Solution 3: Open Windows Explorer
- Step 1. Plug in the write-protected disk.
- Step 2. Press 'Windows+E' and right-click on the drive.
- Step 3. By right-clicking on the disk, you can choose 'Properties', and then select 'Security'.
- Step 4. To Edit the permissions, you should now select 'Everyone' from 'Group or user names'.
- Step 5. Select 'Edit' and go to 'Permissions'
- Step 6. Check all the boxes labeled as 'Allow'
- Step 7. Click 'Apply' and exit. Your disk's write protection has now been removed.
Solution 4. Check and Unlock USB Flash Drive
- Check the switch on the drive: some external USB flash drives and pen drives have a mechanical switch which is used to lock or unlock the drive. If your drive gets the switch, check whether the switch is locked or not. If yes, move it.
- You also can check the USB flash drive if it got the virus-infected and attacked. You need to download anti-virus software and scan your flash drive. Once the virus is found, and kill it at once to remove write protection from a read-only flash drive.
How to Remove Write Protection from USB Pen Drive on Mac
If you're working on a Mac computer, you also will receive the 'Read Only' error on the external drive. On the following steps, we will show you how to disable write protection disk on Mac.
Solution 1: Format Write-Protected Pen Drive on Mac
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To disable the write-protected disk on Mac, you can follow the next steps to format the drive on macOS:
- Step 1. Open the Disk Utility, and the application window will open.
- Step 2. Click on your USB flash drive on the left pane of Disk Utility.
- Step 3. Click on the Erase tab, then select the format type. Select either 'MS-DOS File System' or 'exFAT' both working well on Windows and Mac.
- Step 4. Then click on the 'Erase' option to start formatting the USB flash drive.
Solution 2: Fix and Repair Permissions
Check if the drive's permissions are corrupted or not. You can fix the error using Disk Utility. Follow the steps below to remove write protection from Read-only USB drive on Mac.
- Step 1. Go to the Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
- Step 2. Select the device which is ready-only need to remove write protection.
- Step 3. Click on the First Aid and the OS will start to scan your drive.
We hope those solutions could help you fix and remove write protection from USB drive on Windows and Mac. If it still fails to fix out the problem, you should buy a new USB flash drive. Also, if you need to get all USB data back, you can download Recoverit Data Recovery, powerful USB data recovery software, to help you out. Follow the guide to recover files from USB drive easily.
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