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How to write protect a USB key?
I have a pen drive which I used to carry some files from my laptop to other public computers, and these public computers are virus infected. Now I want to make my pen drive write protected so that these viruses can't infect my pen drive.
What are the solutions?
Martin
Posted 2011-07-04T20:01:13.133
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Buy a new USB drive with a write protect switch.
Short of this, there isn't any guaranteed way.
William Hilsum
Posted 2011-07-04T20:01:13.133
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+1 I won't add any buying recommendations but they do exist and are not hard to find - I had one and it was very handy when de-lousing infected machines. – Linker3000 – 2011-07-04T20:52:15.007
A lot of SD cards have a write protect switch. May be less convenient, though, if the machine doesn't have a built-in cardreader. – Steve314 – 2011-07-04T21:55:04.723
I may be incorrect but I have read before that the implementation of the SD card slot does not demand that the write-protect switch be respected on the hardware level, so it is possible to use a device that will ignore this switch. – Frederick – 2011-07-08T18:59:04.610
@Frederick - You are correct... but... I have never seen any SD card read/writer that detects this - It is down to a feature on the actual card and controller chip inside the card. – William Hilsum – 2011-07-08T19:24:42.457
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You would need to be able to edit the registry on the system you're inserting your USB drive into.
Add (DWORD) or modify existing key at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies\WriteProtect
and set to 000001 to disable writing, 000000 to enable writing.
chrixian
Posted 2011-07-04T20:01:13.133
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As I have said that these computers are public computers so I can't edit registry of these computers. Any other solution? – None – 2011-07-04T21:01:27.947
Its the reverse of this
– soandos – 2011-07-04T20:07:06.810