Posted February 15, 201410 yr I have a Sandisk Cruzer Glide that's only a few months old. I just found that it became "write protected" on it's own, and I don't know why. Yes, I already contacted Sandisk and am scheduled to send it back for replacement. My question is: I have found a few "how to's" on the internet and both of the ones I checked out talk about in the Registry Editor HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key, SYSTEM, CurrentControlSet, Control; there is supposed to be a folder named: StorageDevicePolicies. I have 2 HP notebook computers, 1 with Windows 7 Professional and the other with Windows 8. I've been in both Regedits and can't find this folder. Why is this? And where can I find the WriteProtect REG_DWORD? My understanding is I need to change the DWORD value from 1 to 0 to change the write protection on this Sandisk USB device. I understand that neither any of you nor Microsoft would recommend me doing anything to the registry AND I plan on sending the USB back to Sandisk because I'm not sure it's working correctly but I have a lot of files on it (Yes, I already saved them to another storage device) and I'd like to delete them. No, they're nothing bad, but the people at Sandisk don't need to see them. Can and WILL anyone help me? Continue reading...
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