Need to wipe a writelocked micro SD card.

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I'd just take the loss at that point especially since you will not get past the controller like this. In the future, learn how to encrypt your stuff. I personally don't use any data storage where the lowest layer isn't encryption anymore. It's not only in case "you got something to hide". The most random shit can lead to storage landing in unauthorized peoples' hands.
 
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Hateocracy said:
Lawl wut

What's really on that SD card. Also if you're serious about recovering data on this potentially-damaged medium, you're gonna need to go full meme and install Linux so we can get some actual diagnostic verbosity out of the card + reader.
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Fuck it. I'll try my best not to dox myself.

I worked at a Lithium Ion Battery Plant. I have pictures of cells, Cell model numbers, production numbers, pictures of a document that goes into extreme detail about the trademarked process of the area I worked in, etc.

The SD card was not provided to me by the company. I took these on my personal phone and stored them on my personal SD card. Because I worked 12 hour night shifts I would pirate movies and tv shows to pass the time. Every time I finished watching something I would delete it from the SD card. This is why the card is dead.
 
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Try forcing a defrag on the card, it's a bad idea for solid state cards in general but would at least verify the OS is able to perform write operations to the card.
Heating the card up slightly might work if the write lines/circuit have been damaged. Depending on the smartphone, that might be what has damaged it since a few that I've used had the SD card tray act as the heatsink, which would cook the SD if you were doing something intensive.
 
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Try forcing a defrag on the card, it's a bad idea for solid state cards in general but would at least verify the OS is able to perform write operations to the card.
Heating the card up slightly might work if the write lines/circuit have been damaged. Depending on the smartphone, that might be what has damaged it since a few that I've used had the SD card tray act as the heatsink, which would cook the SD if you were doing something intensive.
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When I try to defrag windows doesn't even list the card. It lists my M.2 internal SSD and my 3 external HDDs. Although thank you for making me check. My 8TB movie/music HDD is 49% fragmented.

I tried error checking and it errors out "The card is write locked"
 
Samsung called me today. I asked, they said because it cannot be repaired they are going to recycle it and as soon as it's recycled I will get a replacement. I talked to my family member who still works at the company. Family member said it shouldn't be a problem, apparently the designs are online anyways. I checked and sure enough everything I found everything I was worried about is already online.

Upper management made it a big deal that we were not allowed to take pictures, not allowed to post anything online, not allowed to even mention what we worked on, or we would face a lawsuit.
 
FYI I had a borked card which was found to be fake, after writing 4GB of data it became read only despite being marked as 32GB.
 
Rozzy said:
FYI I had a borked card which was found to be fake, after writing 4GB of data it became read only despite being marked as 32GB.
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It's a real card. It only corrupted some of my data because I wrote data to the card to many times. That's why it switched to read only. The SD standard has a fail safe where if too many bits fail, the controller will lock the card as read only so you can back up the data, then you have to buy a new one.
 
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LGTV said:
It only corrupted some of my data because I wrote data to the card to many times.
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I thought SD cards were good for 100,000 writes before failure?
The card in my dashcam has seen three years of use and not yet failed.
 
Rozzy said:
I thought SD cards were good for 100,000 writes before failure?
The card in my dashcam has seen three years of use and not yet failed.
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That sounds about right. I used the SD Card as the place for Qobuz to cache streams (So everytime I played a song it would rewrite that section), Amazon Prime Video DLs, Youtube DLs (YT RED), Qobuz downloads, pirated movies, pirated tv shows. I would fill the card as much as I could before going into work every day and during my 12 hour shift I would delete every video I watched.
 
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LGTV said:
I would fill the card as much as I could before going into work every day and during my 12 hour shift I would delete every video I watched.
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I want a job like yours where I can watch videos on my phone all day.
 
Rozzy said:
I want a job like yours where I can watch videos on my phone all day.
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It was fun. After a while watching TV and shit get's boring and hearing the alarms gets annoying. Sometimes when I'm about to fall asleep I can still hear the alarms from the machines.

I have a story about my time at the company.

I had the unfortunate displeasure of working with a blue haired autistic faggot. He got mad I wouldn't participate in the he said she said workplace drama bullshit. I just wanted to be left alone, and not involve myself because I didn't want to make enemies. Well that didn't work out well

He would report me daily to HR for bogus shit. Like he would claim I was late back from the 30minute lunch break, except I only took 10-15 minute lunch breaks because I could eat at my station. Because of that HR started looking into a way to fire me just so he would be happy and stop annoying them. Plus one of his family members was in HR. One day I ended up with COVID like symptoms. Because of that I was told I couldn't enter the building until my fever went down. Got points for it. My badge wouldn't clock me in one day. I had to walk to another time clock that I knew worked. Took 5 minutes. I sent an email to HR and my Boss. They choose this as a way to can me.

What's funny is that autistic fuck was also a tranny but also not. One day he was bi, the next he was straight, the next he was gay, the next he was trans, the next he was nonbinary, you get the point. A couple months after I got fired the autist ended up getting fired for accidentally starting up one of the machines while someone else was inside it. Dude inside got pinned, and almost had his arm ripped off. He immediately had to surrender his badge, and was escorted off premises. He ended up showing up the next day to gather his stuff and return company property. He got inside the building without his badge by going in behind someone. Cops were called on him for trespassing.

Karma is a bitch.
 
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LGTV said:
Dude even I gagged at that thought.

Because of my usage of this website, I've just come to expect the worst out of people. I'm super paranoid. I constantly check to see if the same cars go by because I'm afraid the FBI might be after me for using this website, for pirating movies/tv shows/music/games/etc. Hell every song, movie, and tv show on the SD card is pirated.

I also don't want to get sued by a former employer for leaking proprietary info to a direct competitor. They have sued people for similar things. I had to sign a non-compete that prevents me from working at any other factory regardless of what was being produced. During my training/onboarding the first words out of the CEO's mouth was "The google reviews about us are lies"
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If you are worried about proprietary data being leaked, no amount of digital erasure measures will be sufficient. Just pull everything off the card that you want to keep and and physically destroy it.
 
And then the OP and everyone else all over the world learned that this is why you encrypt your drives and they lived happily ever after, RMAing all their broken storage devices forcing samsung et. al. to make more reliable storage. The End.

Seriously though the guy upthread with the microwave suggestion is correct. A couple seconds should completely destroy the electronics but leave it visually intact.
 
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And then the OP and everyone else all over the world learned that this is why you encrypt your drives and they lived happily ever after, RMAing all their broken storage devices forcing samsung et. al. to make more reliable storage. The End.

Seriously though the guy upthread with the microwave suggestion is correct. A couple seconds should completely destroy the electronics but leave it visually intact.
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I don't think you can encrypt an SD Card and use it on both android and windows 10. The encryption in android turns it into "Internal" storage.
 
LGTV said:
I don't think you can encrypt an SD Card and use it on both android and windows 10. The encryption in android turns it into "Internal" storage.
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You can use cryptosetup in termux on android (the built in "file based encryption" is worthless. They dropped FDE at android 9 iirc) and if you're using windows after windows 7 you get what you fucking deserve. Give me your hats if you must, but I'm right.
 
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