Data recovery tool how to format a write protected USB device?

How to format a USB device?

Before you prepare to format your device, please make sure that you have backed up all your data on your USB device. Or you will lost all your data after formatting.

First, you need to right-click your USB device to check the Properties option to know the file system of your device.

Right-click your USB device and choose Format. In the popping up format windows, you can see several options. It includes the capacity of your device, File System, Allocation Unit Size, volume label and format options. Please choose the right files system. A normal format will remove all the  data from this device and scan the bad sectors. A quick format will erase all your data but do not scan the bad sectors.

How to format a write protected USB device?

Sometimes you may cannot format your USB device when it is in write protection.

You can use regedit.exe to format if you cannot directly format your device.

In windows 7, click or press Windows key, type regedit in the search box, click the regidit.exe and open the registry editor. You will see several file folders, choose HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, and click “SYSTEM—CurrentControlSet—Control—StorageDevicePolicies”. And double-click the Write Protect value in the right-hand pane of Regedit.exe. Change the Value data from 1 to 0 and click OK. Close the Windows and restart your computer. Connected your decive with computer again, you will find the write protection has been removed. Then you can format your USB device.

How to enable write protection on a USB flash disk?

1.       Find the drive letter of your USB flash disk and right-click to select the properties from the drop-down menu.

2.       You will see a Removable Disk Properties Window, click the Security, in the “Group and user names, choose Everyone and click the button of Edit.

3.       It will pop up a window named “Permissions for Everyone”, you can see the Allow and Deny boxes. Check the Deny boxes of “Full Control, Modify, Write”. The your device has been set to read only.

4. Click Apply and click OK to save the changes.

How to recover deleted files from USB device with Hdata recovery software?

First, download the Hdata recovery software on your computer.

Second, connect your USB device to the computer. If your device can be recognized by computer, then you can start recovery.

Third, run the software and click the button of Deleted Your Files From Flash Disk.

Fourth, the software will automatically scan your device. After scanning ends, you can preview the results.

Fifth, choose a recovery path to save your recovered files from USB device.