sd card mounted and read only......anyone have any ideas?

unsane · #1 (**permalink**) 10-08-2010, 07:46 PM

So the other night I took out my SD card (8 gig) the o.e.m. one that came with the phone....anyway I put it in my home laptop and swapped some pics from the card to the laptop.....I put it back in and rebooted the evo.......ever since then I have an SD icon with a question mark on it in my task bar and if says SD card mounted read only tap here .......I've tapped it took it out and reinstalled it......rebooted my phone several times.....can anyone help me out on this, as I can't do a whole lot when the phone won't write to the SD card.....thanks in advance......

mac901 · #2 (**permalink**) 10-08-2010, 08:38 PM

next time don't take the sd card out and just use your cable that came with it to hook up to whatever pc and use your phone as a disk drive alot easier. try taking the card back out and then cutting it back on then cut it back off insert card and you should be good to go. hope this helps

unsane · #3 (**permalink**) 10-09-2010, 12:20 AM

yeah man if it were only that easy.....ive tried that many many times, no dice......man I seriously dont wanna have to format my sd card......what i dont understand is the fact that the sd card still works just fine in my computer...

DrUnKeN_TiGeR · #4 (**permalink**) 10-09-2010, 12:53 AM

what works for me is to take out the sd and put it back in and keep doin this till it reads it and now i dont take out my sd i just use my data cable now forget takin the card in and out and trying to get it to read

fenixjn · #5 (**permalink**) 10-09-2010, 01:59 AM

Have you tried running a filesystem check in the sd card using chkdsk on windows? I'm thinking your card might be corrupt.

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**TheBundo** · #6 (**permalink**) 10-09-2010, 04:35 PM

Copy everything off of the card to a directory on your PC. Put the card back in the phone, and format it in the phone. Then copy everything back, preferably using the cable.

tj.iscool · #7 (**permalink**) 10-09-2010, 05:03 PM

My sdcard just started doin this a few days ago

**lkillen** · #8 (**permalink**) 10-09-2010, 06:41 PM

Some SD cards have a tiny RW protection TAB. You might want to check.

**apristel** · #9 (**permalink**) 10-09-2010, 07:58 PM

Follow thebundo on this one... same thing happened to be, i checked the card for errors and windows fixed them and my problem was solved.

unsane · #10 (**permalink**) 10-10-2010, 12:53 AM

Yeah I did all the above last night trying to clear the error.......solution finally was to copy all contents of the card to a folder then re-format the long way through Windows and reinstall my files back to the card......and presto everything is cool again.......looks like I will stick to the cable from here on out, transferring 7.5 gigs back and forth really cuts into my nap time......lol.....thanks for all the advise.....