SD Card locked
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(06-07-2018, 09:30 PM)pfeerick Wrote:
(06-07-2018, 09:09 PM)icemeister Wrote: I was using Etcher to load other distros to Sd card. Side of adapter not locked. Formating in windows says write protected still trying to load files and it fails in Etcher. Did compleat one card but it failed to load in pinebook. It looks like Etcher locks the card once written.
Let me know if i can give any more info, i am a noob to this
Thanks

That it happened using Etcher is coincidental, because I can assure you Etcher does not 'lock' the card once written. It is possible you have a faulty microSD card, as write protection and write failure errors are common when they have failed and can no longer been written to.

Since you're on windows...

Try using rufus (https://rufus.akeo.ie/) to format the drive, and see if you can reset it back to it's full size.

Then try running h2testw (http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Syst...estw.shtml) in order to see if the microSD is working properly.

You can also try the other tools listed here (https://www.raymond.cc/blog/test-and-det...h-h2testw/), but if rufus and h2test2w don't work, it doesn't sound good.

Thanks, It looks like the card failed and windows reads it as locked. I  could not get linux pinebook to read the 2 cards that this happened to. Could not format them in linux. I will try as  you suggest and see if i can recover the cards.
Thanks for your help.


Messages In This Thread
SD Card locked - by icemeister - 06-07-2018, 07:21 PM
RE: SD Card locked - by pfeerick - 06-07-2018, 08:04 PM
RE: SD Card locked - by icemeister - 06-07-2018, 09:09 PM
RE: SD Card locked - by pfeerick - 06-07-2018, 09:30 PM
RE: SD Card locked - by icemeister - 06-07-2018, 09:48 PM
RE: SD Card locked - by alexenwaston - 05-13-2020, 11:59 PM

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