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 ...

Businesses are growing increasingly aware of the risks associated with using portable flash media to store confidential information, and many companies are turning to various methods of encrypting or ...

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.

Moreover it has to button on it for write protected. I'm going to assume you meant "no button on it". What manufacturer/model of USB drive is it? Some manufacturers do have utilities that interact on ...

Rufus: While primarily known as a tool for creating bootable USB drives, Rufus also provides options for dealing with write protection on SD cards. ChipGenius: With its focus on identifying flash ...