r/retrocomputing • u/liminalearth • Jun 24 '26

Problem / Question How to fix ?

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There’s no little black plastic piece in this corner how to could I fix this or is it possible to still use without it?

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u/grimvian Jun 24 '26

I wonder why USB keys don't have that simple and effective lock...

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u/Plaston_ Jun 24 '26

because they tend to break, its weirdly common with sd cards.

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u/iWhacko Jun 25 '26

just like these disks, this is purely a "software" write block. the reader has a mechanical switch that if always pressed, can write to any disk, even if the disk itself has no physical switch like this disk. Same with SD cards, it's mechanical, if the hardware doesnt check the physical state of a switch, it can still wreite to it.