But before you head to solutions, here are a few common reasons that enable write-protection on a hard drive: Thus, if an external hard drive or internal drive volume becomes write-protected, you need to rely on Windows troubleshooting steps to remove the write-protection. However, unlike SD cards, there is no such switch to enable or disable write-protection in a hard drive.
Write-protection on SD card and some thumb drives can be turned ON or OFF by using an attached physical switch.
