Hello, i have a short question
Last night I was trying to copy my holiday pictures from my Galaxy S3 to my computer when it gave an error. After reconnection there seemes to be data corruption on the micro sd (external memory) and the partition does not show up. Windows asks me to repartition the drive.
All the other data I don't really care about, but I want to recover the holiday pictures. I downloaded the software photorec but it asks me what partition the micro sd was partioned in to properly recover it.
I googled a bit but I couldn't find an answer, does anyone of you know what the standard partion is? Fat or Ext?
Thanks in advance
Depends upon what you formatted as or who ever fitted the card ..
At a guess FAT 32 .
jje
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can anyone please tell me how to format mmc card for xda...there's 3 options in win xp ...fat32....fat...ntfs....i cant format it from the xda , keep getting error code 31.....an error occurred while formatting the storage card folder...........thanks
Try formatting to Fat or Fat 32, however if the xda wont format it there may be a problem, make sure the "lock" switch is in the off position. I have had a problem with sd cards before, what I did was a sd backup from the xda, it then seemed to work ok, just deleted the backup and it worked ever after.
theres no lock switch on the mmc card...i've tried storage tools and flash format...the card must be buggered
i have a different problem, but im sure its connected to the formatting somehow! my card only fills up HALF way!
there is 40% more room availble, all scans prooves this, yet i cant add anything to it, im thinking, its the way its formated, was there a 'directory' limit to how many files that can exist in root?
and wasnt it related to the type of formatting? so my question is...
which format/cluster/ect... is best to fully use a 256 card? and 512/1G.?
Hello,
I actually started a topic last week concerning the same thing. i'm copying bits and pieces of it here; it also helps address your concern about which format to use and the sd card limitations. the first point below address which format you should use for the sd card; in this case use FAT. by the way, i use an sd-card reader (usb plugged) to format the card; it shows up as "removable disk e" in my laptop's window's explorer.
1) i'm using a 512 mb card; i was having some difficulty because the memory of the card would only go up to around 300. at first i thought there was a problem with the card itself so i had to constantly erase the contents to make mp3s, files, pics, mpegs, etc fit. then i stumbled upon the pc command for formatting disks; there were 3 options to format the sd card: FAT, NTFS and FAT32. when i used fat32; the behavior was the same and the memory usage would only go up to 300 max. when using ntfs; my xda2 refused to recognie the card (it wouldn't show up in the explorer app). when i formatted using FAT, everything was great. i can now use the sd card to it's limits and am no longer restricted to the 300-mb trouble i was having.
question: what's the difference in the 3 formats? i don't really know but obviously using FAT format was the best thing to do, but what's with the other formats?
2 cents worth.
cheers mates
robson
thanks Robson...but i have sent to back for a replacement....i tried it in my reader but the pc could not see the sd card...so i went out and bought a 128mb card while i wait for the new one to come....had no problems with the 128 worked straight away
thanks for the tip - from now on FAT is to be my solution
one more thing to add, I do have 256MB SD card on my XDA I and WM2003, ver 4.0.21
I can use my 256MB card to the full limit, the card has been formatted with CnetX format utility (www.cnetx.com) with FAT16 and FAT32 and apart from the fact that content has been missing from time to time, so I had to re-load the files ... when I locked the card, everything is fine now
regards,
monika
today I have tested sandisk 512MB SD card ....
I am allowed to fill it up to the full limit of roughly 484MB
I am curious about the other thing .... buying 512MB SD card for its prce it's almost a rip-off and you get only 484MB in return, I remember old times back with IPAQ + PCMCIA sleeve with inserted flash card 1280MB of sandisk - the size written on the back of the card WAS EXACTLY matching what PPC2002 was showing .... 1280MB
to me it seems like either different "disk geometry" or disk format - can anyone explain it to me pls
regards,
monika
Hi, i have my HTC hero rooted with the last Villainrom 12.0.0, i recently bought a new micro sd card 32gb and i dont know why but after i transfer data to my sd card i can see it, taste it, use it with no problems, but when i put the sd card into my phone some files get missing, i dont know why, but they just dissapear, may get into some kind of trash folder hidden into the card, but they are just gone...
i tried eather mounting the sd from my phone trough USB and retrieving the card from the phone and pluging it into the sd card reader in my pc, it doesnt matter, the problem stays.
i thougt may be it was some problem with the partition, i had the partition to use apps2sd, ext3 and all the crap, but the issue was still there, then i formatted in my pc fat32, still the problem, and finally formatted trough my phone fat32 and the problem persists, i dont know if maybe some software on my phone is making this happen or anything...
i dont know what to think, i know my sd card is ok becouse i used it filled with data and had no problems before...
please help me.... im gonna cry
I have exactly the same problem with my HD2... trying to upgrade from 8bg micro SD to 2gb micro SD.... everything copies across (or so it seems) however all the files in the 'program files' folder haven't come across, nor has my TOMTOM gps folder files..... ?
I've tried everything I can think of, why can I not copy card to card via my PC.... I'm sure it was simple when I changed from 2gb to 8gb cards.
Any help very much appreciated.
I went to use my phone last night after swapping the battery and it came up with a message saying:
"SD Card is damaged. Try reformatting it"
Its a Lexar Class 10 32GB card so obviously has a lot of stuff on it that I want to try and recover. I've tried sticking it in my laptop but it also complains that it is corrupt and unreadable.
Is there anything I can do to try and recover some of the files before I reformat it?
Also while Googling this issue I came across a topic saying that the S3 uses exFAT that causes an SD card to become corrupt over time and that its best to format the card using FAT32, is this true and if so if I format the card on my PC will this be FAT32?
Any help greatly appreciated!
look for undelete pro or similar wording on Play .
jje
Hello. When trying to flash my mini X android box, I used sd card from my sgs2. After that, I inserted the card to sgs2 and rebooted.
The telephone said "Corrupted card" and asked to format. However, it formatted internal sd card!! And it doesn't see the external one.
I've tried formatting external sd to fat32. No luck.
What should I do?
Kondra007 said:
Hello. When trying to flash my mini X android box, I used sd card from my sgs2. After that, I inserted the card to sgs2 and rebooted.
The telephone said "Corrupted card" and asked to format. However, it formatted internal sd card!! And it doesn't see the external one.
I've tried formatting external sd to fat32. No luck.
What should I do?
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check the link below ma8, hope it will be of some help with ur issue
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1734826
Well, this may sound stupid or strange, but what I couldn't do with gParted or Windows partition was easily done by putting sd-card to my Note 10.1
My problem is solved by now. The only thing that bothers me is that my internal sd is formatted and everything's lost. If anyone knows how to recover all data, please pm me
Kondra007 said:
Well, this may sound stupid or strange, but what I couldn't do with gParted or Windows partition was easily done by putting sd-card to my Note 10.1
My problem is solved by now. The only thing that bothers me is that my internal sd is formatted and everything's lost. If anyone knows how to recover all data, please pm me
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for ur internal sdcard data lost issue, check the link below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2351896
Recently I decided to root and install LiquidSmooth on my Samsung Galaxy S3 9305T for the first time. It's great and I'm wondering why I didn't do it sooner. Although since rooting I've developed an issue with my Sandisk 64GB micro sd card not mounting and appearing as Unallocated in Windows Disk Management. I've tried a few things recommended on here including:
SDFormatter as per advice in this thread which didn't work as my SD card wouldn't detect within the program.
Mini tool partition wizard following this method it seemed to format ok but once I put the sd card in the phone it would bring up an error of 'sd card blank or has unsupported filesystem after partition'. Once I loaded the card back into the computer, the partition would appear as Unallocated under disk management to which I'd try format it again to no luck.
Mounting and formatting the drive in ubuntu following this method. The drive mounted however ubuntu was unable to format it
Mounting and formatting the drive in CWM. The card was unable to be mounted within CWM
Tried formatting the card in a camera at home to no luck
I'm leaning towards the card being dead but before I go out and buy a new one I just wanted to check whether anyone had any advice on if there was anything I may have missed?
Thanks
At what filesystem are u formating card?
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
This might help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2197548
Sandisk admits to faults with Mobile ultra SD cards
Ver3go said:
At what filesystem are u formating card?
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Sorry should have mentioned that 1GB was allocated to EXT4 and the rest FAT32.
You are in the wrong forum .
jje