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How To Add Write Protect To A Flash Drive

The document provides instructions on how to add write protection to a flash drive in order to prevent editing or deleting data when connected to public computers. It describes two methods - using a physical switch on the drive or setting drive security permissions in Windows to deny write access.

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How To Add Write Protect To A Flash Drive

The document provides instructions on how to add write protection to a flash drive in order to prevent editing or deleting data when connected to public computers. It describes two methods - using a physical switch on the drive or setting drive security permissions in Windows to deny write access.

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How to add write protect to a flash drive?

If you have stored some important data on your flash drive, then it's a good choice
to enable the write protection before inserting it to computers which is not well
protected by an-virus software. There are chances that flash drive infects virus when
connecting to public computers. Although write protecting on USB drive is not the
foolproof action to prevent people from editing or deleting your data if they know
how to disable this feature, it is better than keeping flash drive in open mode. Here
is a handy tutorial to add write protect.

Method 1:

Examine the flash drive or memory card and find out the switch. You can move the
switch to the lock location to enable the write protection for the device.

Method 2:

Set drive security permissions

Step 1 Right-click the drive letter associating with the flash drive in Windows

Explorer and select "Properties" from context menu.

Step 2 Click Security tab on the Properties Window, select "Everyone" under Group

or user names and click "Edit" button.

Step 3 On the "Permissions for Removable Disk" Window you can see a section

named "Permissions for Everyone" and two columns of check boxes. Check those
under "Deny" for items like Full Control, Modify and Write.
Step 4 Click Apply and then Ok button.

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