Remove Write Protection on Windows 11

Situatie

Removing write protection involves clearing the read-only attribute, and it’s completely possible to do this for files, folders, and entire storage devices. How this is done is different depending on what you’re dealing with, since there’s both hardware and software write protection techniques.

The clearest way to confirm a file is write-protected and not just experiencing an unrelated issue, is if you get a read-only error when trying to overwrite it.

<file name> This file is set to read-only. Try again with a different file name.

If an entire disk is write-protected, you’ll see The media is write protected, if you’re trying to make changes from Command Prompt. File Explorer displays this:

The disk is write-protected. Remove the write-protection or use another disk.

Solutie

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Right-click the file and choose Properties. You can also get there by left-clicking once and opening the three-dot menu from the top of File Explorer.

Select Read-only to clear the box.

Select OK to save the changes.

Read-only file attribute check box

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