[GTALUG] Write-protect on a MicroSD card?

Stewart C. Russell scruss at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 19:29:26 EDT 2016


On 2016-09-13 05:30 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
> 
> Any suggestions? Both Windows (sdcard.org <http://sdcard.org> formatting
> tool) and Linux (dd) refuse to write to it, and the "dirty bit" can't be
> cleared from the boot partition.

Try in a digital camera, and use its low-level format option. If it
won't format, the flash controller's toast and it won't be worth salvaging.

cheers,
 Stewart


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