Please help me

[isaamthegreat]

Hey I need help urgently to format my read only SanDisk micro SD HC I 32 GB

I used regedit storagedevicepolicies and set writeprotect value to zero.

I used disk part to clear the attributes.

I used the sd card formatter from sd association.

I also tried using partition wizard tool to format the partition.

I tried using win32diskimager to write an image file but failed.

I even changed my card readers.

There are no physical switches an card.

Please help :-(

 

[Uptivuptiz]

you could try booting up Hirens BootCD and see if it's still write protected. This will bypass all windows policies. If that doesn't work then it has been software locked from something like a phone.

[Alexsheff93]

right click the SD stick and format it to FAT32 

[Bombastinator]

You need to find out how the card is write protected.  It used to be done with a small switch that exposed a hole in older designs.  With that one the work around was to place a piece of tape over the hole.  I don’t know the system used to write protect that kind of card but the answer could be in the morphology.  If it’s not it could be a software system.  Write protect is designed to be hard to get around.

[isaamthegreat]

2 hours ago, Alexsheff93 said:

right click the SD stick and format it to FAT32 

It shows write protected

[isaamthegreat]

1 hour ago, Bombastinator said:

You need to find out how the card is write protected.  It used to be done with a small switch that exposed a hole in older designs.  With that one the work around was to place a piece of tape over the hole.  I don’t know the system used to write protect that kind of card but the answer could be in the morphology.  If it’s not it could be a software system.  Write protect is designed to be hard to get around.

I checked my card but it's not physically write protected(couldn't find any button, slider or hole).

It has something to do with software....

[isaamthegreat]

2 hours ago, Uptivuptiz said:

you could try booting up Hirens BootCD and see if it's still write protected. This will bypass all windows policies. If that doesn't work then it has been software locked from something like a phone.

It still shows write protected......

Is there any way to remove this protection??

(Using any other device or OS)

[isaamthegreat]

I ALSO TRIED USING ANOTHER CARD READER.

MY TASK MANAGER NOW RECOGNISES IT AS A MXT USB STORAGE DEVICE.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN (couldn't find  on internet).

 

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, isaamthegreat said:

I checked my card but it's not physically write protected(couldn't find any button, slider or hole).

It has something to do with software....

It might.  It might also have to do with how the case is shaped.  There will be data.  That’s a a particular kind of card.  I don’t know which kind.  It’s more modern than stuff I know about.  There have been various types of SD cards over the years.  I can see them abandoning actual physical systems because of the ability of users to fairly easily get around them, so you may well be right

It will likely be very specific to that particular type of SD card. 

[AbydosOne]

5 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

You need to find out how the card is write protected

MicroSD cards don't have a physical lock switch, unlike full-size SD cards.

Spoiler

Which, on a side note, is not an electrical switch of any kind. It actually relies on the reader to detect the presence/absence of the switch to determine if a card is locked. There are a lot of readers that flat-out ignore it.

 

4 hours ago, isaamthegreat said:

Is there any way to remove this protection??

If you haven't tried it already, try something like GParted.

 

If that still shows as read-only, then the card probably set itself as read-only as a fail-safe state. I've heard of cards doing this instead of completely dying so that any data on it is still recoverable. It's probably dead, or at least, not worth resuscitating.

[isaamthegreat]

4 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

It might.  It might also have to do with how the case is shaped.  There will be data.  That’s a a particular kind of card.  I don’t know which kind.  It’s more modern than stuff I know about.  There have been various types of SD cards over the years.  I can see them abandoning actual physical systems because of the ability of users to fairly easily get around them, so you may well be right

It will likely be very specific to that particular type of SD card. 

Well I think I need to get a new card....lol

Thanks for help

[isaamthegreat]

3 hours ago, AbydosOne said:

MicroSD cards don't have a physical lock switch, unlike full-size SD cards.

  Reveal hidden contents

Which, on a side note, is not an electrical switch of any kind. It actually relies on the reader to detect the presence/absence of the switch to determine if a card is locked. There are a lot of readers that flat-out ignore it.

 

If you haven't tried it already, try something like GParted.

 

If that still shows as read-only, then the card probably set itself as read-only as a fail-safe state. I've heard of cards doing this instead of completely dying so that any data on it is still recoverable. It's probably dead, or at least, not worth resuscitating.

Yep I am getting a new one.

Thanks....

[Bombastinator]

2 hours ago, isaamthegreat said:

Yep I am getting a new one.

Thanks....

Luckily they’re cheap.  That one is pretty slow anyway I think.  I recall a year or more ago the minimum standard was x10 speed and that one is x4