SD card problem

[RexJacobus]

Daughter needs new SD card in her phone. Bought 8gb, formatted it. Fine.

But when I put her old card in my PC to get her music and apps transferred over it says it is write protected.

I also put the card into my vidcam and tried connecting via a usb connector cable. The camera pops up as drive G (like it always does if I use a cord) but then tells me to insert a card?

I've already put tape over the write protect notch. What else can I try?

 

[popatim]

You don't care if her old card is write protected or not - you are only going to read from the card.
Just copy the contents over to the new card or to an intermediary device like you hard drive first.

 

[RexJacobus]

I can't do that. Whenever I try to see what is on the card by putting it in to the PC and clicking on the drive I am told it is write protected. I know that I only want to copy but it won't even let me view.

 

[popatim]

Ahh. Now I see.
Can you try from safe mode?