How Do I Turn off Write Protection on SD Card?

The "disk is write-protected" error indicates a safeguard that prevents you from modifying or deleting important data on your SD card or any other storage device. When your SD card is in this write-protected state, it functions in a read-only mode, preventing you from adding new data, removing existing files, or formatting the card.

However, it's important to note that this doesn't render your SD card permanently unusable. There are steps you can follow to disable the write protection, format the card, and prepare it for reuse. Below, we've provided a concise guide with quick and effective solutions to address this issue.

For Write Protection SD card, first, you can do some check:

Unplug and replug the SD card.

Switch the USB port, and change an SD card adapter.

Reconnect the SD Card to a new computer.

Check if the SD card is accessible.

If it's still write-protected, you can run CMD commands to remove the protection.

Step 1. Connect your SD card to the computer first.

Step 2. Press Win + R keys, type cmd in the Run dialog and click "OK".

Step 3. Type diskpart and hit Enter.

Step 4. Type the following command and hit Enter each time:

list disk

select disk # (# is the number of your write-protected SD card.)

attributes disk clear readonly

Wait for the process to complete and close Diskpart. After this, you will be able to access your data again.

And after you remove the write-protection from your SD card, you need to reformat it.

Step 1. Go to "My Computer," and select your SD card device.

Step 2. Right-click on your SD card, you will see the "Format" option.

Step 3. Click "Format" it will pop up a window. You can select some format option like the file system or quick format option.

Step 4. Click "Start," the computer system will start scanning and formatting your SD card.

Of course, after formatting, all data on the SD card will be removed. If there are quite important files, you can try data recovery tool to retrieve lost files on your SD card.

Also you can choose third-party tool to format your drive to other file systems if you need.