In any case, it's possible to remove write protection from a USB drive. Some USB flash drives and hard drives come with a physical switch that lets you enable or disable write protection as needed.

Struggling with a write-protected USB drive? Learn how to remove write protection and regain full access to your files with these simple steps.

Learn how to format a write-protected USB pen drive or flash drive or SD card on Windows 11/10. Remove Read-only attributes using diskpart.

In this guide, we'll show you the steps to format a USB flash drive on Windows 11 using File Explorer, Settings app, Disk Management tool, Command Prompt, and PowerShell.

Now, you can turn off Bitlocker to remove write protection for the removable drive and fix the error. That’s about how you can remove Media is Write Protected message in Windows 11/10.