Sandisk Memory Card Write Protection - watch out for that lock switch

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Sandisk Memory Card Write Protection - watch out for that lock switch

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Hey,
I'm assuming you've sorted it by now but just in case anybody else stumbles across the problem like I did there's a very simple solution. Having pulled my card apart as you did to work out how lock worked I was stumped as there's no contacts or mechanism. The simple solution is that it's just a sensor that detects where the little plastic thingy is. Just wrap a piece of cellotape around where the plastic thing should be in the unlock position and voila... Card works fine again.

Hope this might help somebody and save some cash!

Cheers,

Andy

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SanDisk lockswitch not working, everything locked
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I'm having the same problem � flicking the lock switch back and forth makes no difference, the computer insists the SanDisk card is still locked � and if you ever got an answer, please drop me a note @verizon.Net I'd be so grateful! :) Ankhorite

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Ha! Well, I found out after trying everything I had thought of, to no avail. The bloody switch does NOTHING inside the SD card package: it's merely a dummy whose position is read by the socket!

I carved out a little piece of plastic from a Scotch tape dispenser and glued it into the place where the missing switch would be if set to the non-writeprotect setting (outboard side of the slot), and voil�! I can write to the chip.

(sheesh! what a wild goose chase!)

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can i format my sd card?
Sandisk Memory Card Write Protection

Hi,

I have purchased a Kodak digital camera with 2 gb sd card. After a few days when I was trying to download the pictures to my computer, I saw there has been a virus in card. I tried to remove it but failed. I don't know that virus came from computer or through card. Can I format my card? somebody told me if I format the card I'll lose its setting. Give me a proper solution.

Thanks

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