When connecting an SD card to a Windows computer or even a mobile phone, it shows 'Memory Card write Protected' or 'Microsd card write protected' error and couldn't format it. At that time there's no possibility to copy the MicroSD card files to another device. Moreover, sometimes Android shows a corrupted micro sd card, need to format message. In most cases, it happens external volume file system errors.
Almost all of our valuable photos, favorite music are stored on our smart devices' external memory card. If you are not able to recover them you lost all your valuable memories.
- How to Remove Write Protection Using Lock Switch. If your computer tells you the media is write-protected, look for a write protection switch (also called a lock switch) on the USB or SD card. If the media has this switch, make sure the switch is set to write, not read-only.
- Once your SD card or micro SD card get write protection, you can not save any new data to the SD card, modify files inside like delete or change. You can only read the existed files inside the SD card. Besides, you can not format the write protected SD card either. SD card in this situation is useless for most users.
- This tutorial is designed to give you a basic understanding of SD Cards and how to write different images to the SD card of your choice. SD cards, short for Secure Digital, are everywhere you look now, from digital cameras, to phones and tablets, and even Single Board Computers (SBCs).
- Apr 23, 2016 To develop a Android Application that writes data to the SD Card. Procedure: Creating a New project: Open Android Studio and then click on File - New - New project. Then type the Application name as 'ex.no.9″ and click Next. Then select the Minimum SDK as shown below and click Next. Then select the Empty Activity and click Next.
I dont think you will be able to make it write faster with the additional buffer. You can write continiously. Share files android to pc. Every time you reach a 'new' page the 512 byte buffer is written to SD-card. (you may experience the short delay while this happens).
There're several ways to fix write protected error. In this post, I'm going to use the Windows operating system to solve this issue. You have to log in to your PC using an Administrator account. In this post, I'm using the Windows 10 OS, however you can use any Windows operating system.
Note!
First, make sure that you're not manually trigger SD card write protected state.
Disable Write Protected policy on Windows.
- Open the 'Run' command window. In Windows 10, right-click on the 'Windows' icon and choose 'Run'.
- Type 'regedit' without quotes.
- When the Windows registry editor opens, you can see a list of folders. Navigate to the following entry by double click on that visible folder icon. 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl'
- Search if there's a 'Storage Device Policies' registry key. If you can't find such a key, we have to create a new key. Right-click on the 'Control' registry key and navigate to 'New>Key'.
- Rename the newly created key as 'Storage Device Policies' without quotes.
- Now right click on the right-side panel and choose 'New>DWORD Value'.
- Rename it has 'write protect' without quotes.
- Double click on that write-protect keys and change its value to '0'.
How To Remove Write Protection On Micro SD Card.
- Connect your microSD card to your computer using an adapter. Make sure that the adapter not activated the write-protect switch. Most of the adapters write protection activate by pulling that switch all the way down.
- Type the start menu 'cmd' without quotes and right-click on it and choose 'Run as Administrator' or right-click on the start menu and choose 'Command Prompt (Admin)'.
- Type following command line and hit the enter key.
run 'DISKPART' command.
- Right after that, type the following command.
list disk
- If you have one hard disk and one USB storage device (MicroSD) then it shows your disks as follows.
- In this situation my memory card listed as disk 1. Then 'select disk 1' command.
- After that, run the 'attributes disk clear read' command without quotes.
attributes disk clear read
- Next, eject the USB adapter and reconnect.
Check the disk errors.
Note!
First, make sure that you're not manually trigger SD card write protected state.
Disable Write Protected policy on Windows.
- Open the 'Run' command window. In Windows 10, right-click on the 'Windows' icon and choose 'Run'.
- Type 'regedit' without quotes.
- When the Windows registry editor opens, you can see a list of folders. Navigate to the following entry by double click on that visible folder icon. 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl'
- Search if there's a 'Storage Device Policies' registry key. If you can't find such a key, we have to create a new key. Right-click on the 'Control' registry key and navigate to 'New>Key'.
- Rename the newly created key as 'Storage Device Policies' without quotes.
- Now right click on the right-side panel and choose 'New>DWORD Value'.
- Rename it has 'write protect' without quotes.
- Double click on that write-protect keys and change its value to '0'.
How To Remove Write Protection On Micro SD Card.
- Connect your microSD card to your computer using an adapter. Make sure that the adapter not activated the write-protect switch. Most of the adapters write protection activate by pulling that switch all the way down.
- Type the start menu 'cmd' without quotes and right-click on it and choose 'Run as Administrator' or right-click on the start menu and choose 'Command Prompt (Admin)'.
- Type following command line and hit the enter key.
run 'DISKPART' command.
- Right after that, type the following command.
list disk
- If you have one hard disk and one USB storage device (MicroSD) then it shows your disks as follows.
- In this situation my memory card listed as disk 1. Then 'select disk 1' command.
- After that, run the 'attributes disk clear read' command without quotes.
attributes disk clear read
- Next, eject the USB adapter and reconnect.
Check the disk errors.
Next, we have to check if there are any microSD corrupted errors. Open the command prompt as you opened in the above step.
- First, identify the driver letter assigned to your micro SD card. You can view it by opening Windows 'File Explorer'. In my situation, you can see that it's assigned the letter 'G'.
- Type the following command line and hit the enter key. If your computer assigned a different drive letter for your memory card, then replace that letter with the following command line 'G'.
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- Now it starts the error checking and if it found, it will automatically fix. This will take a couple of minutes.
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Now connect your MicroSD card to a mobile phone and access the SD card using our recommend non-root or root file manager app and check it's working.
