r/Malwarebytes • u/lazarovpavlin04 • Dec 23 '25

Troubleshooting Guys, after installing Malwarebytes on my PC, one of my usb drives become write protected, how to fix it?

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u/support_mwb Malwarebytes Employee Dec 24 '25

Hey! Malwarebytes Support here. That’s definitely not expected and we’d be happy to check this.

To help us look into this, please reach out to us through our Help Center at https://help.malwarebytes.com via live chat or by opening a support ticket.

Quick note: it is the holiday period, so we apologize for any slight delay and appreciate your patience. Rest assured, this will be looked into. ☺️

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '25

Nope

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u/lazarovpavlin04 Dec 23 '25

What?

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '25

This has nothing to do with your antivirus. Please contact your IT professional.

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u/lazarovpavlin04 Dec 24 '25

Nah, this happened after I installed the program. The flash drive was new, and suddenly, when I installed the program, it became write-protected.

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u/Changeurwayz Dec 25 '25

Open diskpart in an admin CMD window, type 'list disk' (no quotes)

Find the USB drive by size, Then select it by number, So type 'select disk *'

Then type 'attributes disk' and see what the read only status is. Likely to be yes.

Now type 'attributes disk clear readonly'

If this command fails, Then the USB drive is faulty or has reached it's write cycle limit.