Simple fix
Sandisk Memory Card Write Protection

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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

-reply by Andy Ecks

SanDisk lockswitch not working, everything locked
Sandisk Memory Card Write Protection

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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

-reply by 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!)