Micro SD Reader with write protect?

spleenharvester · 9 Sep 2015 at 16:58

Does anyone know of a USB SD (or better still micro SD) reader with a write protect function?

Reason I ask is because the SD card adapter's built in lock switch can only be appreciated by the card reader (the card has no awareness of its position), and my USB reader appears to be unable to do so. I need it for dealing with malware-infected PCs.

Cheers

Boogieman_WD · 15 Sep 2015 at 14:55

Hey there, spleenharvester.

Your options are to either get an SD card with a write protection switch on it, or to enable the write protection yourself. Here's how to do that:
Start -> Run -> type "regedit" and then press "Enter"
Find the following key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
Create a new key and rename it as "StorageDevicePolicies".
Select "StorageDevicePolicies" key, right-click -> New -> DWORD value and rename the later "WriteProtect".
Set its value to "1" to enable the write protection.
To revert the that, set the value to "0"

Note that it is not really recommended that you mess with regedit if you don't know what you are doing, so do that at your own risk.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD