My camera says write protect and won't let me take pics

The key indicates that the photo is protected. To unprotect the photo, while viewing the photo press the MENU button, select the key icon, then select "OFF". Full details are on page 35 of the manual.

The key indicates that the photo is protected. To unprotect the photo, while viewing the photo press the MENU button, select the key icon, then select "OFF". Full details are on page 35 of the manual.

Sounds like the card has died. unfortunatly this can happen. and could be caused by a number of things including static.

you can maybe try a disk repair in windows.
hit your windows key and press r at the same time. in the command line type CMD and hit enter, it will open up a DOS window. type CHKDSK ?: /f where teh question mark is, is the drive letter that windows has assigned the card when you insert it. if it is an error that is repairible this might work.

Sounds like you are keeping way too many pictures on the card. That's not safe. Download them to your computer using a separate card reader if necessary. Then format the card in the camera and start fresh.

Page 29 of your manual refers how to protect images (lock them and unlock them).

Sounds like you will need to format the memory card. This will permanently erase all the data from the card and then you will be able to use it again. To format the card: Press the Menu button - right arrow to Mode Menu - down arrow to Card tab - right arrow to memory/format- right arrow to format option. You will see format yes or no. Choose Yes and press ok. This will clear all the images from the card and then it can be used again.

Protected pictures cannot be erased using [ERASE],
[SEL. IMAGE] or [ALL ERASE], but they are all erased by
formatting.
• Go to Playback mode in the camera. Select the picture to be unlocked with the left or right arrow buttons, and to remove the protection select OFF with the up or down arrow button.

If your pic is in the locked mode (Green Key Icon). Bring up picture. Press menu. Press (Playback Menu) and hit OK. Press OK again and it should bring up the pic with option of off or on. Hit off to unlock and you should be able to delete the pic.

try taking the xd card out and take a pic if the camera works i would try a new xd card faulty cards are pretty comon allthough i havnt seen that message before

thos pictures are lost... u ken fix the problem by format...menu- setup- format...they are problems with the pictures because the camera was shaken allot...dont worry this will do it... or u ken get a card reader to get thos photos back, but the format is required