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How to repair or bypass write protect switch on an SD card

Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 1:54 pm
by FlyingPenguin
Brilliant! I have no need to ever make an SD card read-only, and sometimes it's absurdly easy to nudge the write protect switch...

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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 3:06 pm
by darcy
ha! another case of live and learn! :)

Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 4:43 pm
by b-man1
reminds me of the good 'ol days and 5.25" floppies. i'd take scissors and cut the tab out on the opposite side to make both sides recordable instead of just the one. it was the inverse of this. dual-sided floppies for half the price. :p

Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:01 pm
by normalicy
And here I had always assumed that it was an internal switch.

Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 10:08 pm
by RubberDuckie
nice find.
I too remember the days of cutting a floppy to get both sides :)