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#1 Micro SD card write protection help
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 10:15 pm
by scole of TSBT
Bought a new 32GB micro SD card yesterday and after maybe 2 cycles of laying down an OS image it's now write protected. It's not the switch on the side, tried in a different SD card R/W and computer. Tried to clear using diskpart. Nothing has worked. Any ideas how to fix it?
#2 Re: Micro SD card write protection help
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 10:20 pm
by davidbam
Send it back for a refund.
The way it was explained to me is that the card does that, if something is wrong, in order to protect the contents. I don't know how to clear it, sorry
#3 Re: Micro SD card write protection help
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:56 am
by Alez
You could try option 2
https://www.wikihow.com/Remove-Write-Pr ... an-SD-Card
if option 2 fails you can then try and format it.
#4 Re: Micro SD card write protection help
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:38 pm
by davidbam
Have you a different adapter to try it in?
#5 Re: Micro SD card write protection help
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 2:25 am
by scole of TSBT
@Alez and @davidBAM Tried all of those. I even changed the blinker fluid. Still didn't work.
#6 Re: Micro SD card write protection help
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:42 am
by Dirk Broer
Do you have a camera? Try to load the card there. The camera might be able to re-format the card to a useable form.
I have several of these, GParted doesn't help, nor the famous Linux CLI commands.