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

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Apr 12, 2013 1:54 pm

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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darcy · Post by **darcy** » Fri Apr 12, 2013 3:06 pm

ha! another case of live and learn!

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Fri Apr 12, 2013 4:43 pm

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.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:01 pm

And here I had always assumed that it was an internal switch.

RubberDuckie · Post by **RubberDuckie** » Sun Apr 14, 2013 10:08 pm

nice find.
I too remember the days of cutting a floppy to get both sides