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Offline vincegun

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sd/sdhc lockdown
« on: September 18, 2010, 06:30:02 PM »
Kind of stumped on this one and have been working on it for a few hours.

I hacked my Wii a while ago, we all know this. Just recently I decided to put all my Genesis, NES, SNES and N64 roms onto my 8gig sdhc card so I could just fire up the emulators and have dozens of games running off of something the size of my thumbnail. Problem is, Win7 isn't letting me write to or format any of my flash cards. I have (1) 512meg card that's been a mainstay in the Wii since I hacked it, (1) 8gig sdhc and (1) 16gig sdhc.

I have the write protection tab on all 3 in the "up" position so they're not write-protected and yet Windows, in all it's great glory, doesn't let me write to them. At first I thought it was my card reader, which I've since disassembled and probably screwed up, but even the card reader in my usb Canon MP600 isn't letting me do anything to the cards... not even format them with the standard windows format option. All I get is "Disk is write protected."

I've seen various "fixes" on the web ranging from different SD formatting programs, to registry adds/edits, to working with the pins in the physical readers so windows thinks write-protection is always off.... but I've only had mediocre success. I've been able to format the 16gig and the 8gig to Fat32 via the other programs, but when I try to access and write to/format them via standard windows options, I'm not allowed.

Has anyone experienced this problem and fixed it for themselves? How did you do it? Am I going to have to order a new card reader? Why the hell didn't I get pancake mix today?  :chair:

Edit for additional information: I also hooked the usb card reader that I always use to my other machine, which is WinXP with all windows updates applied, and that didn't make any difference. It saw the card (didn't matter which one) for the capacity that it's supposed to have, but wouldn't format worth a crap.
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Re: sd/sdhc lockdown
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2010, 04:07:53 PM »
Today I put my 8 and 16gig cards into my netbook which is running Jolicloud (a Ubuntu variant, as far as I know) and that formatted them into fat32 just fine. So uh.... yeah, stumped.

Good times transferring the files from the server, over the wireless G and onto the card via the netbook's built-in sd reader.
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Re: sd/sdhc lockdown
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2010, 08:06:02 PM »
cypher just had an issue just like this... although with this, the sd card was normally like an 8gb or something, but would only show up as a capacity of 15MB.  Like you said, we tried everything from using special format utilities from various companies, trying the reg trick, etc and nothing worked.  I think cypher ended up RMA'ing the card.
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Re: sd/sdhc lockdown
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2010, 05:58:41 PM »
Yeah, I dunno what happened. Linux fixed everything, go figure. Although I did find out that the Wii (or maybe the homebrew channel) doesn't like the "PNY optima 8gb SDHC" card, but it likes my A-Data 16gb card just fine. On top of all that, I need a new card reader for my main machine so it can see sd cards again. Damn screwdrivers, always breaking stuff! :-D
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Re: sd/sdhc lockdown
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2010, 12:35:17 PM »
I thought anything stuck in a wii gets encrypted to keep one from pirating stuff.
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Re: sd/sdhc lockdown
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2010, 07:21:35 PM »
If it does, then the HBC people figured something out.

What helps keeps people from pirating stuff without breaking into the Wii is that the actual size of the game data varies wildly. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a smidgen under 400megs big. That's on a standard dvd. Know what else takes up all that space? Nothing but 0's. Luckily, there are ripping programs for the Wii that can dump straight to a usb device, sd card or even over wireless via a web browser. OR you can use (which is what I do) a game launching program like Configurable Usb Launcher and that can directly copy said game to whatever device and be ready to play it right away. I did it with my games and it doesn't take long at all. Well, long for the Wii..... given the hardware.
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