okay, I'm almost too embarrassed to even post this...
I was flashing my XDA last night with the Developers Edition Rom, and that went smoothly. however, it was really late, and I wasn't paying any attention (lol) to what SD card was in my fone when it askedme if I wanted to format. Stupidly, I said yes I want to format, and then realized that the card inside was the nifty little 32 MB card that came with the phone from At&t that had all the cool games on it.
so my questions are:
1) does anyone know of any utils that can unformat a SD card?
2) does anyone happen to have that at&t card with the games/etc on it that they'd consider making a copy of?
3)does anyone have any other ideas of how I can get another copy of that data??
yeah, it's a petty problem, and I'm a dumbass for flashing my fone at 3:00am, but I'd still appreciate any help
It is possible to unformat a hard drive I believe as the data isnt overwritten, not sure how you would go about it with an sd card, I think its just the header that is changed so if you havent written to the card since format all the data will be there. You could try a disc doctor program such as norton and see which files you can salvage through your card reader.
nope...haven't written anythign to the card yet at all. I've got a copy of Norton utils someplace....I gues sI'll try and see if installing that on my desktop somehow lets me unformat on my SD card though the card reader, lol.
My phone did that to my little games flash, all by itself. I downloaded tons of utilities, but was not able to retrieve anything
Yes you can retrieve your formated data back !!
you need a program and a card reader !!
yeah, I tried that, Norton Utils, and a card reader
no joy on that
Oh well, too late now
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ive got a sandisk 256mb card which one day decided to corrupt all my data on it and now i got boxes and symbols for the folders and i cant seem to delete these files from the sd disk from the xda or from windows, it is complaining about the data being write protected or that im unable to perform the request!
any idea on how i format this bugger?
i dont need the data on it i just need to
format it or get rid of the files on it!
any :shock: :shock: help appreciated
thanx!
Silly question maybe, but it isn't the little switch on the card, is it?
yes m8 thats the 1st thing i checked!
can a sdreader format the card ?
Weird, I just noticed I have this same problem today.
Although I have an SD card reader on my PC, so as soon as I find the drivers, I should be able to format it. Don't know any other way though
my card did the same thing
i'm not sure if it happent because i took it out while some of the programs on it were running in the background
or if the sdreader killed it
i could not format it using the sdreader or anything
solved it with this tool
it format'd the card in 10sec and it's been ok ever since
http://www.softwinter.com/storagetools.html
Hey, I tryed to install the XDA-OS and it did not work during the upgrade. Now my phone is STUCK. I turn it on and there are just a bunch of random lines. I would like to reinstall but I can't use Active Sync seeing that my P/PC has nothing on it I guess. Is there a way to recover from this disaster? Please help. Val
Yes there is, you will need an sd or mmc memory card, and a card reader/writer for your pc, you will need to cook a rom, possibly from www.yorch.net, when it is ready for download choose "sd card flashing" at the bottom of screen on yorch net. You will need xdatools to program your memory card while in card reader/writer. Basically you choose the .nbf file that you downloaded as source and your card reader/writer as destination. Once this is accomplished you place the card in the xda, enter bootloader mode, when asked to press action, do so. Your xda should then be alive once again.
Now my 256 card is F*&^ed
I did everything, I finally understand these new concepts. I used the XDAtools to convert my NB1 files to my 256MB SD card and started the P/PC up. I forget why but, although I though it would have worked, it did not. Anyhow I then accidently backed up my corupted OS onto the card and said "oh no, why did I back up that crap on to my card!!!" I then inserted the card into the card reader and it said "Card access error." Now it doesn't work. A point of fact is that it does work in the XDA, but not in the PC. This XDA world is CRAZY but wonderful. Maybe I could get a heads up, let me know if anyone else has heard of this problem. VAL
Try putting it back into the card reader/writer, right click on the card and choose format. Sometimes the pc will do a delayed write to the card, if you remove it before the data is written it becomes corrupt, I always right click and choose eject before removing the card.
This morning, my PDA suddenly showing many missing programs, all that I installed on SD Card disappeared!!. When I use File Explorer, it only shows that I have only 2 folders, Mail Attachment and Temp.. where are the rest??
The weird thing is that when I look at the capacity (using card reader)... it shows that I only have 300MB Free space, 700MB in use, which is about right. But why can't I see them? These two folders are only less than 1MB. Can anyone give me suggestion what to do? I'd like to retrieve all that are in my SD Card.
All comments would be greatly appreciated. Thx
it happened to me when i used my moto.. n i simply used a file recovery software n got all my data back.. it happens when u lose the mft...
Does it mean I have to start thinking of buying new SD Card? Why is this happening? corrupted SD Card?...
might be caused by a memory hole.. but... cant say specifically till u test all the MUXed bits of the card...
yeah.... Sometime My all of Data also lost...
too bad...
Same happened to me, but i go t to my data thru a card reader.... Had to hardreset for the prophet to see the data again...
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Same happened to me, but i go t to my data thru a card reader.... Had to hardreset for the prophet to see the data again...
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this happens in case the refernce bit from the fat table is lost.. not in case when MFT IS GONE
this guy had his mft dropped
it happened to me to!
It's happpened to me last week. When I inserted back SD card, card couldn't be read and asked me to format. I check with Pc it's also same. What I frustated most, My 2GB SD card becomes 1GB after reformating. What's wrong and how to gain back my previous 1GB?
This is really weird.. I think my SD card needs to retire.
After playing with it, I just couldn't bring back all the files and folders in my SD card, so I decided to reformat it and reinstall everything back again. After I finished reinstalling everything.. I was happy and I soft reset the SD Card again and boom, everything disappeared again, only Mail Attachment and Temp folders that were there..
This SD card is going to waste bin.
Well last night I had android build on my card and it wouldnt install new programs and games from the android market place so i decided to re format my sd card through my card reader through my computer.
Big Mistake!~ Everything is wiped off but now its taking longer to load programs onto the card and windows keeps giving me an error when trying to load android .Cab onto my card :-( i really dont want to buy a new one lol
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Well last night I had android build on my card and it wouldnt install new programs and games from the android market place so i decided to re format my sd card through my card reader through my computer.
Big Mistake!~ Everything is wiped off but now its taking longer to load programs onto the card and windows keeps giving me an error when trying to load android .Cab onto my card :-( i really dont want to buy a new one lol
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The .cab is dead. Have you tried the zip version? See my thread here.
But the .Cab worked before and it doesnt now?
Is there another re formatting program that i can use
to make it back to normal?? or is my SD card just ****ed up?
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But the .Cab worked before and it doesnt now?
Is there another re formatting program that i can use
to make it back to normal?? or is my SD card just ****ed up?
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Reef updated the cab, and it's broken. cab takes for-freakin-ever as well, plus it doesn't really let you see how the system is arranged.
As for your SD card, you can try formatting it using the HP tool. Not sure if your card is messed up permanently or not... Can't say I've ever seen a card completely fail before, but I always buy name-brand SD cards...
I used the Hp Tool i put your android bundle on my card everything was great and then i when i was in android it would not confirm that i had a sd card in there... idk man i ****ed this **** up lol
krewblink said:
I used the Hp Tool i put your android bundle on my card everything was great and then i when i was in android it would not confirm that i had a sd card in there... idk man i ****ed this **** up lol
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First off, Could you please ease up on dropping the curse words? That would be appreciated greatly.
Now, when you formatted your SD card did you format it FAT 32? Also did you use quick format?
The recommended setup is: FAT 32 & Full Format (NOT QUICK).
Thanks
krewblink said:
I used the Hp Tool i put your android bundle on my card everything was great and then i when i was in android it would not confirm that i had a sd card in there... idk man i ****ed this **** up lol
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Yea, curse words are not appreciated... Lots of kids in the forums, let's be respectful.
At any rate, what do you mean "when i was in android it would not confirm that i had a sd card in there" <--- I'm assuming you mean some app said there was no SD card inserted? Try dcmedic's suggestions.
Sorry for the bad habit
I got it to work. that Hp tool actually did help me thank you!
I had to reformat it 3 times but it works like a charm now
I had android installed on the card and android was not reading that i had a card inserted but now its does so everything is good
thanks for your help!
I installed MIUI on my girlfriend's fascinate last night and this morning she's just told me her phone has a notification for a damaged SD card... I told her to try unmounting/removing it and the problem persists making me believe it's the internal card.
Can anyone point me in the correct direction to fix this? I'd like to recover as many of the files from the phone before wiping it if possible.
Thanks!
First thing you should do to confirm whether it's internal or not is to just try swapping the MicroSD with another. I really don't know for sure, but I don't think it would tell you that you have a damaged SD card if it's talking about the internal storage.
Do you have a card reader for your PC? Plug it into that and see if it works. If it detects it, try running a chkdsk on it. If something got corrupted on it somehow, that should take care of it. You shouldn't have to format it.
She's currently at her family's house (we're in college... don't live on our own ) but I'll try that later. She tried putting her microSD in her brother's phone and both phones displayed a damaged memory card notification, which makes me think it may be both.
Also, she's got cwm red, not orange. Could that be the issue? If so, how do I switch to orange?
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She's currently at her family's house (we're in college... don't live on our own ) but I'll try that later. She tried putting her microSD in her brother's phone and both phones displayed a damaged memory card notification, which makes me think it may be both.
Also, she's got cwm red, not orange. Could that be the issue? If so, how do I switch to orange?
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If the same MicroSD gave a damaged message in another phone, it's almost certainly the MicroSD.
I know there's some issue with Gingerbread ROMs corrupting SD cards. I thought it didn't apply to CM7 or MIUI, but I'm not totally sure. CWM shouldn't have anything to do with it, though. It's odd that she has red CWM, though. How does she enter recovery?
I'd expect chkdsk to handle it. Once you've got access to it and a PC, open the command prompt, and try "chkdsk x: /f /x", where x is the drive letter for the card.
I would think you could just look at the SD card & phone storage section in Settings. Damaged memory card usually appears as not present.
The SD doesn't show up in the mounts and storage, yes. Any idea how to recover those files?
Does the internal memory show up?
From my experience, once it's corrupted it can't be used again. There are several programs that may help you recover files on the card but you probably will not be able to use the card again unless you can get it formatted on something else, ie camera.
Does the internal memory show up?
From my experience, once it's corrupted it can't be used again. There are several programs that may help you recover files on the card but you probably will not be able to use the card again unless you can get it formatted on something else, ie camera.
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The SD doesn't show up in the mounts and storage, yes. Any idea how to recover those files?
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If you have a card reader on a PC there's a program called Recuva that may be able to recover pics, video, etc.
try formatting it