MMC CARDS -"locked attributes" & "write protected"
- From: 2Shane <2Shane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:06:01 -0700
Hi, I have a U beaute MMC based mp3 player. I have a Sandisk 512MB MMC in it
and yes the card is unlocked. One of my fathers sent it over from Canada -
brand new, in the pack, about 2 months ago.
The last MP3 player I had, had defective earphone jacks, and so I removed
the Sandisk card, put that on the shelves and sent the player back for
replacement.
The replacement came back, and when I stuck the card into it, I tried to
overwrite / delete the old tracks, and also to copy new tracks onto it.
However, the bloody thing spat back at me "Cannot delete / overwrite /
format / etc. because the drive is now write protected.
And after trying everything I can think of, etc., I searched through about
120 posts on 120 websites on the subject, there are lots of people and sites
saying "remove the write protection" but none of them actually say how to do
it....
There is NO clear "turn write protection off" anywhere in XP and there is as
far as I can tell, no DOS commands etc., to force the disk to be overwritten
/ brought back into service.
It seems to be enough of a common problem with flash disks in cameras and
USB drives and such like to produce many posts, but no clear, concise and
working solutions.
And I can't find anyone who actually knows how to crack the
"write-protected" function for a flash drive? (online or elsewhere).
This is some of the stuff I have done to crack the "write protected" issue.
It won't format, delete, overwrite, cut, paste, or respond to any the XP GUI
commands or DOS commands.
There may be an issue with the card it's self, it may be a matter of having
formatted the card as a FAT32 instead of a FAT filing system (we live and
learn???) cause the former MP3 player was playing up and or a whole heap of
causes...
But it's a 512M Kingston MMC card, reading as 483 Meg FAT32....
And I have tried.... XP, computer management, disk management, properties.
No "read only" attribute in PROPERTIES, only "Share this folder on Network"
+ "Allow network users to change my files" - both checked.
Jump into "Command Prompt" CD D: attrib -r, a pop up says: "THE DISK CANNOT
BE WRITTEN TO BECAUSE IT IS WRITE PROTECTED. PLEASE REMOVE WRITE PROTECTION
FROM THE VOLUME IN DRIVE D:." [cancel / try again / continue]
I hit any of the three commands and it comes back in dos:
D:\attrib -r
Unable to change attribute - D:\001 (file name).mp3
Unable to change attribute - D:\002 (file name).mp3
Unable to change attribute - D:\003 (file name).mp3
etc.
So I have tried all this and similar before... in the XP GIU and in XP DOS
and I am honestly STUCK.
It player plays just fine tho.....
I had a crack at hooking the MP3 player into a different computer - same
problem.
Windows XP has a nasty habit of locking MMC cards up and rendering them
unuseable...all without any help from the user.... NOT GOOD.
Any ideas on the subject?
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