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	Switch_	2011-01-25 , 10:32
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@Dan sorry mate, didn't have time to log in again last night. Using XP mount your card so that PC can see it.

Then right click "My Computer" and go to "Manage". Once the console opens load the Disk Management service. You will see your card listed in there under whatever drive letter the system assigned to it. Should be easy to locate.

Right click onthe drive and go to "Properties". Click on the "Security" tab at the top, and check that you have a group or user name that is "Everyone". Highlight it and then go "Edit" - check that "Full Control" is highlighted and all other permissions are highlighted except "Special Permissions". Apply the changes and exit out through "OK".

Drive should no longer be write protected.

Let me know if this fixes it or not. Alternatively you could attempt to format whilst still in Disk Management by right clicking and selecting "Format". Use the FAT32 file format. Failing that we can try to run the same thing in DOS Command Prompt;

Go Start > Run and type cmd. This opens command prompt (can't recall to be honest but I believe that Administrator access is a given in XP, been working on 7 for a while now so everything is "Run as Administrator"). We want to get into the disk partition manager service within DOS so type;

Code:

diskpart
list disk

This will show you the currently connected storage devices - locate your card and note what disk number it is- for arguments sake we'll call it "Disk 1". Now we will run a DOS format of the disk so type;

Code:

select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=FAT32
assign
exit

Done this myself to create bootable W7 from USB a number of times so used the NTFS filesystem rather than FAT32 but it worked a treat. Only try the DOS based format if Disk Management can't / won't do it.

Let me know how you get on fella..... Cheers

Last edited by Switch_; 2011-01-25 at 10:45. Reason: added DOS commands

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