How to Enable Write Protection on a SD Card or USB Stick in Windows
While Windows has ramped up its cybersecurity protection over the years with continual antivirus development, adding regular patches that fix security vulnerabilities, and even improving the good old Firewall, your data is still susceptible to being stolen or hacked. In short, you’re still susceptible to losing your data.
This is where write protection can help. By enabling the write protection on your SD cards or USB stick, you could add another layer of security to protect your data. So let’s look at the best ways to write-protect your SD cards or USB sticks.
How to Enable Write Protection on USB Stick on Windows
When you write protect your USB stick, it prevents anyone from writing, modifying, or erasing other data from your device without prior authorization. In fact, only throughformatting can you tamper with the data on a write-protected USB stick. Like almost anything on Windows, there’s a variety of ways to enable write protection on your USB.
First, we will look at how you can enable write protection through the Windows Registry.
Enable Write Protection on USB Stick by Windows Registry
To turn on write protection on your USB stick through Windows Registry, follow the steps below:
That’s it—do this, and the write protection will be enabled on your USB.
Add Write Protection to USB Using Command Prompt
You can enable write protection settings with the help of the Command prompt as well. Here’s how you can get started:
Here, look at the disk size to figure out your which disk represents your USB stick.
That’s it; write protection will be enabled on your USB stick from here on.
Use Write Protection on Your SD Card on Windows
Like with your USB stick, you’re able to also enable write protection on your SD cards.
One of the simplest ways to enable write protection on your SD card is using the command prompt as well. As with the USB stick above, type ‘diskpart’ in theRundialog box and hitEnter.
From there, follow the steps below:
The write protection feature will be enabled on your SD Card.
Toggle on the SD Card’s Physical Lock
Many SD cards come with an in-built physical switch that will let you enable ordisable the write protection mechanism on your SD card.
Slide it away from the “Lock” option you might have on your card and keep it that way. As soon as you do this, write protection will be enabled on your SD card.
Enabling Write Protection on SD Card or USB Stick on Your Windows PC
Although we don’t recommend keeping it on at all times, write protection does protect your data from outside tampering or accidental deletions.
However, you may have to disable write protection for your SD card or USB stick eventually. To do that, all you have to do is roll back from the steps from above. If you need help with that, you can simply go through our write protection disabling guide from before.
Is your USB drive throwing up a disk write protection error? In this article, we explain what that is and how you can fix it.
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