Enabling write protection on a USB drive is one excellent way to prevent accidental changes and deletions of files, the other being password-protecting your USB drive.

Read: Can’t format USB Drive. 2] Enable or disable USB Write Protection via Local Group Policy Editor To enable or disable USB Write Protection via Local Group Policy Editor, do the following ...

How to Unlock Write Protection on My USB Drive in Windows 7. Enabling write protection on a Universal Serial Bus drive prevents users from adding, copying or deleting data from the device.

Now I can't do anything with it -- I can browse files, but can't delete anything, add anything, or format the drive. At this point it's useless.

If you need a USB drive that's widely compatible with different devices, you may want to format it to FAT32. Here's how to do so on Mac and PC.

I just got my Autodesk Inventor 2012 update on a really nice 16Gb usb key. Conveniently I just lost the key I carry so this would make an excellent replacement. The only problem is that it is ...

This article will walk you through how to format your USB key on a Mac, Windows, or Linux PC. USB keys will sometimes display less memory than is actually available, even after the drive has been ...

If you need a USB drive that's widely compatible with different devices, you may want to format it to FAT32. Here's how to do so on Mac and PC.