<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 November 2010 08:54, Daniel Morgan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:plodski@gmail.com">plodski@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>I will be bringing a 2GB SD card that I have been unable to format or erase data from; I'm hoping there will be someone clever enough to clear the partition coming.</div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div>Sorry to state the obvious but is the write protect clip on the SD card on?</div>
<br></blockquote><div>Of course I've checked the the write protect tag is not on, I have tried all sorts of things using Windows, MacOS and Linux, none of which have managed to erase the files.</div><div><br></div><div>
I tried sdformat in windows and the drive comes up listed as some weird symbol something like this :ɏ but the program just gives "unable to format this card"</div><div><br></div><div>I have tried dd of=/dev/zero if=/dev/sdb which appeared to work but on plugging the card in the files are still there :?</div>
<div><br></div><div>A friend with a Powerbook tried deleting the files using Snow Leopard but was unsuccessful</div></div><div><br></div>cheers<div>Dick<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>free/libre/open, software for the people by the people<br>
<a href="http://www.swlug.org">www.swlug.org</a> is a good place to go ;-)<br>
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