I use this following code to remove the write protection folder so that I can delete that. But It won't work.
File.SetAttributes(@"F:\File", FileAttributes.Normal);
File.Delete(@"F:\File");
How can I remove the write protection?
If I can remove file protection from the disk, so give some codes to do that.
Any help will be appreciated
Thanks in advance
There is a difference between Folder and File. With this you will remove the readonly atribute and delete the folder.
var di = new DirectoryInfo(@"F:\File");
di.Attributes &= ~FileAttributes.ReadOnly;
di.Delete(true);
EDIT:
Formating USB drive. You can read the article.
public static bool FormatDrive(string driveLetter,
string fileSystem = "NTFS", bool quickFormat=true,
int clusterSize = 8192, string label = "", bool enableCompression = false )
{
if (driveLetter.Length != 2 || driveLetter[1] != ':'|| !char.IsLetter(driveLetter[0]))
return false;
//query and format given drive
ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher
(@"select * from Win32_Volume WHERE DriveLetter = '" + driveLetter + "'");
foreach (ManagementObject vi in searcher.Get())
{
vi.InvokeMethod("Format", new object[]
{ fileSystem, quickFormat,clusterSize, label, enableCompression });
}
return true;
}
You should put the driveLetter like this: "F:"