Remove read only write protection on micro sd 2GB memory card

[Talhaayyan]

When I used my 2GB micro sd card to save my personal data it automaticlly became write protected. I can't make any change in it even it is not formatted due to write protected error and I can't change its attributes also. I have tried many ways like command prompt, registry and format it though disk management but can't. Please give me a simple and authentic way to remove its write protection. Please help me..

 

[edwar]

Turn the Lock switch to off on the card.

 

[Talhaayyan]

There is no any lock on my card. It is without switch or lock. It is a simple micro sd card

 

[mitchell65]

I think you will find the lock is on the adapter that you put your micro card into before inserting it in the card reader!

 

[Talhaayyan]

No i found no lock. When i attach my card to laptop attrib.exe error is occured in which it is written 'disk is write protected. Remove write protection by going to volume of it.

 

[patio]

Is this a new card ? ?
Did anyone else use it ? ?
Is there data on it you need ? ?

 

[Lance1]

All Micro SD card adapters have a lock on them. It'll be a little slider on the left-hand side of the SD card adapter. It's there.

 

[mitchell65]

You haven't said that you have looked at the adapter. You have to use an adapter to put the card into a card reader. It may well be that you leave the adapter in the card reader and have forgotten thatyou can remove it from the reader. please look! If you have no adapter you do not have a Micro SD card!

 

[Talhaayyan]

No it is not a new card. It was going perfect I have problem with it only few days. No any one else has used it. And the data in it i d'nt need. It has no adapter i put it in card reader directly.

 

[edwar]

To my knowledge there is NO Micro SD card reader. They all have to go into a adpater that looks like a Standard SD card.

So you either have an SD card, A Standard SD card, or it is a Micro SD in an Adapter. In either case there is a switch on the upper left hand side that Locks the card from writing to it.

If that lock is not all the UP, closest to the connection point, then it is Lock. If it is all the way up and it is an older card the card has probably failed and need to be replaced.

 

[Talhaayyan]

Ok fine thanks a lot for nice cooperation.

 

[edwar]

Your Welcome.

 

[jumanji]

If your MicroSD card had been working fine all along and suddenly turned write-protected, that means it's in failsafe mode. All reserved sectors for mapping the bad sectors are exhausted and it is not letting you write anything which will only result in corrupt files. Replacement is the only option.

 

[mitchell65]

As a final go at this. I would re iterate what I and others have said. There is no card reader that will take a micro SD without an adapter and that adapter will have the lock facility! So I have no idea what the OP has! Perhaps he could photograph the face of the card and post it here and possibly a photo of his card reader!

 

[Sir George]

As a final go at this. I would re iterate what I and others have said. There is no card reader that will take a micro SD without an adapter and that adapter will have the lock facility! So I have no idea what the OP has! Perhaps he could photograph the face of the card and post it here and possibly a photo of his card reader!

Just a heads up on the reader issue. I purchased a multi-card reader and it does read a Micro SD without an adaptor, see image;



SD's do have a limited life span and the problem for the OP may be the one he's trying to read has come to EOL. I do know that every micro card I have used has no lock.

 

[mitchell65]

Thanks for that. It'll teach me to keep more up to date in future! A bit more research has revealed this:
MicroSD & Nokia 6300 SD, MiniSD Memory Card Copy, Transfer Problems. Mobile unlock.
Might be useful

 

[Talhaayyan]