On 30/04/2019 10:30, Tauno Voipio wrote:
> On 30.4.19 10:36, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 30/04/2019 08:28, Tauno Voipio wrote:
>>> On 30.4.19 08:25, fugee ohu wrote:
>>>> On Monday, April 29, 2019 at 6:45:11 AM UTC-4, fugee ohu wrote:
>>>>> I extracted Noobs to a micro sd card put it in my pi zero and
>>>>> installed After, rebooting takes me back to the install screen
>>>>
>>>> Tried Raspbian, kept getting the message unable to expand filesystem
>>>> Tried burning my micro sd card with etcher Same thing
>>>
>>>
>>> Get a new card and copy Raspbian on it.
>>>
>>> Noobs may have write-protected the partition
>>> that needs to be changed.
>>>
>> dd ought to smack the partitions as well as te data.
>
>
> No.
>
> There is a bit in the SD card which can be turned on to
> write-protect an area, but it cannot ever be turned off.

No.


>
> There are tools for handling the low-level properties on
> SD cards. I'm using SD Formatter on OS X.

It appears after a little research taht some SDC rcrds go readonly and
need binning.

It alos appears that this is the best chance to save them


>
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/how-to-remove-write-protection-in-my-mi
cro-sd-card.655335/



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