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Impossible to remove SD card write protection

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October 7, 2014 4:28:58 PM

Hey all
My 16 GB micro SD card for my Galaxy S3 started to act up a few days ago while I was out of town. I got the "Damaged SD card SD card is damaged. Try reformatting it:" error

I have tried to reboot the phone, remove the card, clean the contacts but no go.
I put another SD card into the phone and it worked great so I don't think it is a phone issue.

I put the SD card into my laptop and everything is there just fine. I would have never known there was an issue. I can see all of my pictures, books etc.

I copied my files to my laptop.

I tried to run checkdisk...it says the SD card is write protected.

I tried to go to the cmd and do chkdsk. It says it is a FAT file that is write protected.

I went to the cmd and did the DISKPART thing and did the changes to the disk and the volume and it says that neither of them read only (said no)
I tried to do a fix in the registry but that still leads to a DISK IS WRITE PROTECTED ERROR.

I taped the sides of my reader (which works fine for other cards that are not read as write protected)
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Mike in St. louis

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October 7, 2014 11:51:22 PM

Hey Mike. From what I understand you've tried the best solutions (to remove it through the CMD and regedit) and it still doesn't work. You should also make sure that the adapter which you use to connect the micro SD card to your laptop doesn't have a write protection switch, or if it does, make sure it's not ON. Otherwise if you've tried all of that and nothing works, I think that your card might be failing, so it's a good thing that you were able to backup your data. You should also try the card with a different adapter and with a different card reader.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
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October 8, 2014 6:37:54 AM

Thanks
I still don't see how that would explain not being able to remove the write protection though. Would I still be able to reformat the card and start again?

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October 8, 2014 6:56:31 AM

Well try reformatting it through the CMD, but if you had no success earlier, I think that you won't be able to do it, again because of the write protection.
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October 9, 2014 3:22:55 PM

Like I said, I tried that already
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