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The SD Cards' 'Write Protection' issue is not a software issue or any computer related problem. Your information has saved me from several days without my notebook, and possibly from a replacement of my known-good rock-solid motherboard (if it ain't broke, don't fix it). Thanks a lot, everyone, for posting your comments about the tape-over trick, and especially about the 'sensor finger'. Who cares about the write-protection anyway Guess what, the SD card isn't write protected anymore, even if I toggle the tab on the card to the 'locked' position. I merely needed to cross a narrow gap between the sensor trace and a nearby ground plane, and I zapped my piece of wire to the right pins of two suitable SMT devices, which provided uncovered tin, easy to solder. Put a very sharp tip on my soldering iron, got about 1 cm of hairline wire (a single strand from a piece of left-over stranded wire), and did the micro-surgery. Then I finally I got the idea that I could just short the pin to ground 'out of band'. And indeed, if I inserted an actual card, the sensor kept trying to close, but remained open most of the time. I quickly found the sensor pin, it was the left-most pin on the socket. Without voiding any warranty sticker, I managed to find the right hood on the bottom of the notebook, which revealed access to the CPU, RAM and basically the whole motherboard, including the SMT pins of the SD reader socket. On my Fujitsu Siemens notebook, otherwise an excellent reliable machine, I managed to find out that the metallic finger in the slot is free-floating when the slot is empty, but gets grounded if the finger is pressed. Taping over the write-protect tab on the SD card may indeed help, if the mechanical switch inside the reader is flawed in exactly the right way. Whereas with the ultra-modern SD media, it seems to be a popular flaw :-/

Oh my, even the venerable floppy drives used to have an optical sensor for the write-protect tab, and I don't remember ever meeting a flawed write-protect sensor in a floppy drive. Instead, it toggles (or fails to toggle) an electro-mechanical switch in the SD card reader. Not true - the tab is a purely mechanical flipper, with no electric connection inside the card.

I used to think that the write-protect tab operated a switch inside the card.

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These opinions are mine, all mine HP might not want them anyway.ДЇeel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH.

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Portable adj, code that compiles under more than one compiler Standard.' There are all sorts of versions/options in stuff like SCSI I'm also not sure if there may be different versions of the 'SD Some mechanical tolerance issues involved. Switch on the card, or something more like the old 3.5' hard floppy My Photosmart 812 camera is at home right now, (which is where I haveДЄn SD card) so I cannot look to see if write protect is an electical Same size if you can borrow one, and then perhaps one of the same sizeДЄs your co-worker's Palm One SD card.

That is a plausible hypothesis (I might put it in the other order ,Д«ut first I'd also try another example of a SanDisk SD card of the > reader is INCOMPATIBLE with SanDisk's SD card. > So I am left with the conclusion that HP zt3000 Notebook's SD card > XP SP2, so I did, but that didn't make my problem go away.

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> 2) And then he told me to download this HP Enhancement Software for At least it is now known that the reader in the laptop isn'tДoes your SanDisk card work in your co-workers equipment? (Sorry if > co-worker's Palm One SD card and that worked FINE! > 1) he told me the same thing you suggested, so I tried with my Rebooted and tried again, theД¤) I have already downloaded and updated the ROM and BIOS to latestД«tw, I am trying to use the SD card to transfer files from my laptop toДЄrchived from groups: .hardware ( More wrote: Problem only exists with the SD Card reader embedded in the notebook.ДЈ) I have downloaded the SD Card Reader program (SP24430.exe) from HP Via USB, copying to/from the card works just fine. I double-checked it numerous times.Дў) I have already isolated the problem exists with the SD card readerДЄnd not the SD Card itself. So far these are the troubleshootings I have done.ДЎ) SD Card is not locked. Remove the write-protection or use another I cannot copy any files to the SanDisk SD Card (1GB) using the SD Card

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I have an HP Pavillion zt3000, running Microsoft Windows XP Pro. I am hoping someone can help me with a very frustrating problem. Archived from groups: .hardware ( More info?)

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