If you own any portable device manufactured in the last two decades, chances are you have had to buy a fair share of the removable flash memory cards. That's the tiny bits of plastic and silicon ...

Check your USB drive or SD card for a lock switch, and ensure it's set to write. Clear the read-only box in a file's properties to remove write protection from individual files. Use the diskpart ...

Enabling write protection on a Universal Serial Bus drive prevents users from adding, copying or deleting data from the device. If you've inserted a USB drive into your Microsoft Windows 7 computer ...

Write protection is an important safeguard that can keep someone from erasing or writing over the information stored on a hard drive, flash drive or other digital storage device you may use with a ...

Copying, moving, or deleting files on a USB drive is usually straightforward. However, this may not be the case if the USB drive you're using is write-protected. As the name suggests, write protection ...

When copying files to a USB drive or SD card, if you receive a— Media is Write Protected —message, then this post will help you resolve the problem. The same problem can occur when deleting a file or ...

Sometimes you may receive a message saying that the Disk is write-protected when dealing with external storage devices. This may mean the registry entry is corrupt, your system administrator has ...

I'd plug it back into the buddy's computer and poke around looking to see if there was special software, or maybe windows has an option to turn on something inside it.