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First post, by AndalusianRG

Posted on 2022-03-23, 11:40

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Hi everyone!
I'm having an issue with a CF card that I've recently bought, and I don't know how to fix it 😅
When I first formatted it, I made four FAT16 partitions, and I could write on them on my Win10 PC, using a card reader. Later on, I don't how I did, but I made the card read-only. After formatting it a few times on FAT32 file system, and fixing some "issues" with a couple of partition managers, the card turns to read-only mode.
The "weird" thing is that the card seems to be fully functional on the Pentium MMX PC that I intended to use the card with, but it is in read-only mode on my modern PC when I put it on a card reader.

Thank you for any help that you can give!

Reply 1 of 2, by wiretap

Posted on 2022-03-23, 12:25

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Run diskpart as administrator and use the clean all command. That should wipe out all the partitions and give you a fresh start.

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Reply 2 of 2, by AndalusianRG

Posted on 2022-03-23, 12:35

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wiretap wrote on 2022-03-23, 12:25:

Run diskpart as administrator and use the clean all command. That should wipe out all the partitions and give you a fresh start.

When I runned Diskpart and looked for the disk attributes, the "Read-only mode" didn't appear as active.
I don't know if I messed up something inside the disk functioning or whatever...

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