Olympus SmartMedia Card Write Protect Firmware

Discussion in 'Digital Photography' started by Charles Koberg, Jul 21, 2003.

  1. Charles Koberg

    Charles Koberg Guest

    Using the 64MB card which came with my Olympus D-520 Zoom, I took some
    valuiable pictures at a one-time family event. When I was working with
    the images on my computer, using Camedia Master software and a SCSI bus
    card reader, the software froze my machine before I had downloaded
    them.

    Upon rebooting, I found that the card had write protected itself and I
    can access the images (using Windows 98 and USB cable) as read-only or
    (using Macintosh and card reader) not at all - the card refuses to
    mount.

    In the camera, I can look at the images, but I can't take any more
    photos.

    Can anyone supply the procedure required to penetrate this write
    protection so I can download the images before re-formatting?
     
    Charles Koberg, Jul 21, 2003
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    John Hawkins Guest

    Have you tried from Windows Explorer to un check the read only
    attribute? Right click>properties. Don't know if this will work but
    it is worth a try.
     
    John Hawkins, Jul 21, 2003
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