I wanted to upgrade my SD card which was 8GB to a 64 GB one.
Issue was there were too many apps installed on the 8GB card hence a normal copy in windows din't do the trick, even when I did show hidden files.
The solution was to use robocopy from command line.
In this example, E: is the card.
First, put the old SD card in the card reader.
1. Open cmd (Win Key + R, then type cmd, Press Enter).
2. type "robocopy E:\ C:\MyBackupFolder /MIR"
3. Remove old card and put new SD card in the card reader.
4. type "robocopy C:\MyBackupFolder E:\ /MIR"
Done
Good to know!
Awesome Tip...
This is scary fast!
Especially when upgrading from a 64gb to 128gb card...
Thanks!
be careful
someone may be stupid enough to begin from the 4th step.
anyway , any undelete software you suggest ?
I just did this, almost everything was ok except for some apps that references the SD-card with the address "emulated/[serial NO#?]" so might want to watch that out
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I bought A Sandisk 1GB Mini SD Card off of ebay for $10
-just the the card no card reader, or adaptor of any sort.
I insert it into my wizard, and it fits it with the spring loaded mechnism fine, but when I go to memory managment, im not sure if it knows it's there or not
Memory management will say that, that "external storage": "Not Installed"?
But when I go to take pictures, I go to the utilities/options menu, then general tab, and it doesnt even acknowledge that theres their a card in the slot, only seeing system memory.
So my question is, are their any programs that can/will format my card, or implement something to make it work?
I have Total Commander(not installed), and thinking about downloading this program called "SKTools". Would these programs work.
Cause not only is this a brand new card, but i have pictures and programs that I want to get installed on this device.
-Ive already amazed myself by using the Lockiwiz, to unlock my phone(having only 2-days worth of exp with a smartphone device)
-taken a few pictures, which i have to downloading off my wizard through activesync
-An some other freeware programs that want to install themselves on the system memory
Please help, all/ and any post greatly appreciated
Thanks!
EDIT: I downloaded SKTools onto my device, and its a cool program( I think its a alternate version of total commander but you pay for it?), but it doesnt recognize my Mini SD card either!!
-I also found this program called "WM5Storage", in the description it say that it's specialty is dealing with "external storage", downloading/ and uploading without the need of activesync?
Last edited by projectdarkside(1) : Today at 09:06 AM. Reason: Found new program
I had the same problem.
The only thing that worked on my sd-card was to clean it with an sd-card reader that was pluges in too my computer.
PS. I hope you understand, my english is not so good.
http://pocket-mechanic.en.softonic.com/pocket
got some tricks up it's sleve
jus using card reader to format it to fat 32 format then is ok.
your only option is, which has already be said,is to format the card with a card reader. WM5Storage when activated allows your phone to become a usb storage device that can be plugged into any pc without the need for active sync to be installed. you can then see the contents of the sd card, but as your wizard cant even see the sd card that wont work either,nor will any other program you install.
Either the card is incompatable or it needs to be formatted
The best option to format any SD or MiniSD is into Digital Camera.
Couple weeks ago, I bought a 8gb external sd card for my vibrant. Its been working fine except for a couple of times when it wasn’t mountable for somereason. I had to restart the phone few times to get it to work. Yesterday, I turned my phone on and realized phone wasn’t recognizing external sd card. Instead I had a message in notification bar saying “Damaged external SD card. SD card is damaged. You may have to format sd card. ” I tried numerous times to take out the external sd card from the phone and putting it back in, with the phone being both turned off and turned on. I connected the phone to computer and it wasn’t readable and was only giving an option to reformat the sd card. Used a sd card adopter to try to read the card’s contents but with the same results.
I remember once I connected the phone to my pc and disconnected it without pressing the turn off sd card storage on the phone. This might have caused the problem.
What am I doing wrong? What is wrong with the sd card? Is there anyway I can retrieve my data stored on the card. How can it be fixed?
Thakns.
I was able to fix this issue with chkdsk command in dos command prompt screen from this thread . I couldn't find the answer in vibrant forum so im posting here in the hope it will help others in the future and will work as reference.
Open command prompt on your pc.
then type chkdsk followed by drive letter followed by /r - so if your card is detected as E then do: chkdsk e: /r
hit enter.
Windows will check your card and its file system along with files folders, used and unused space.
I got this issue multiple times .... I had to format the external sd multiple times but eventually it worked but the guy above seems to know what he's talking about, try what he said out and use my way as a last resort because you will lose all things stored on the sd my way
this is prime example of why i make backups of everything
vabeachfc3s said:
this is prime example of why i make backups of everything
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This is part of the learning process, its a tough process or we could be prepared like you
Today I got the same message as before when SD card didnt work.
"Damaged external SD card. SD card is damaged. You may have to format sd card.”
I was able to fix it again using the method described above. But im wondering why does the SD card keep giving me problems. Is there anything I could do to fix it?
Micro SD card are real sensitive. If you look at them wrong they'll take a ****. Any minor static discharge on them and they will be useless. You're just gonna have to get a new one. I know it sucks but I've been through 2 of them till purchased a Samsung one that has lasted. You're just gonna have to remember to back everything up like homie vabeachfc3s says. An old man told me once "he who doesn't have at least two backups of his files is someone who doesn't care to loose them".
sLiKK said:
I was able to fix this issue with chkdsk command in dos command prompt screen from this thread . I couldn't find the answer in vibrant forum so im posting here in the hope it will help others in the future and will work as reference.
Open command prompt on your pc.
then type chkdsk followed by drive letter followed by /r - so if your card is detected as E then do: chkdsk e: /r
hit enter.
Windows will check your card and its file system along with files folders, used and unused space.
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This worked to recover my SD on my AT&T Skyrocket. Thank you!
I believe I encountered the problem because I was trying to transfer too much data at once from my internal SD to the external SD (my entire Titanium Backup!).
This happened to me today on my Mmx A110.
Unfortunately the SD card is not mounting either by USB cable or memory card reader.
What can I do?
clude rrnothis
Same problem as me either... buy new sd
Damaged external sd card a110
I have tried chkdsk <diskname>: /r
I have tried chkdsk /X /F <diskname>:
I also cleaned and activated using diskpart
but nothing is working its still giving damaged external SD card. Any solution ???
sLiKK said:
I was able to fix this issue with chkdsk command in dos command prompt screen from this thread . I couldn't find the answer in vibrant forum so im posting here in the hope it will help others in the future and will work as reference.
Open command prompt on your pc.
then type chkdsk followed by drive letter followed by /r - so if your card is detected as E then do: chkdsk e: /r
hit enter.
Windows will check your card and its file system along with files folders, used and unused space.
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I have tried formatting, wiping etc,.
I have tried chkdsk <diskname>: /r
I have tried chkdsk /X /F <diskname>:
It shows 45% completed then it stops. Any solution ???
I want to replace the stock microSD card with a 16GB one I bought. Can someone tell me the correct process for doing this? Is it as simple as copy and pasting everything on the old card to the new card and popping the new one in?
Yes, this will be enough. But I advice to reformat Your new card in PC using FAT32 2kb or 4kb cluster size, this can save lot of space, if card was formatted with 32kb clusters.
That's what I did with my new card. Format fat32, copy and paste all old files, you should be good to go.
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1) First you need card reader for easy copy_paste ....insert new card in your device go to setting > unmount sd card and erase/format...it will format your card in default and correct format...
then connect your old card to pc and copy data from old to new
if you have no card reader then ..copy your mobile data from device to pc via usb connection..then remove old card and insert new card ....format new card in mobile ...then copy your data from pc to your new sd card
Thank Me If I Helped You :good:
S-trace said:
Yes, this will be enough. But I advice to reformat Your new card in PC using FAT32 2kb or 4kb cluster size, this can save lot of space, if card was formatted with 32kb clusters.
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Is there a downside to formatting with smaller cluster sizes?
ipsuvedi said:
1) First you need card reader for easy copy_paste ....insert new card in your device go to setting > unmount sd card and erase/format...it will format your card in default and correct format...
then connect your old card to pc and copy data from old to new
if you have no card reader then ..copy your mobile data from device to pc via usb connection..then remove old card and insert new card ....format new card in mobile ...then copy your data from pc to your new sd card
Thank Me If I Helped You :good:
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Is it better to format the card with my phone rather than with my PC?
Hello, what I would do is before formatting the MicroSD. I would put it into your device and let your device set it up. If it doesn't mount right away, go into your settings and then to Storage and find the MicroSD card then format it that way if you are not experienced. Then it would be safe to copy and paste all the data from the old MicroSD card.
OK, so these are the steps I plan on following. Please let me know if I'm missing anything or doing something wrong.
1) Copy contents of old sd card onto my PC via USB
2) Insert new sd card into my PC card reader and format using FAT32 2kb or 4kb cluster size
3) Insert new sd card into Evo and format
4) Transfer contents of old sd card from PC to new card via USB
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Is there a downside to formatting with smaller cluster sizes?
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There is no downside on flash memory, because it has very fast seek time. The only downside may be is performance drop in very low-end devices because FAT tables become larger and may not fit in memory completely.
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There is no downside on flash memory, because it has very fast seek time. The only downside may be is performance drop in very low-end devices because FAT tables become larger and may not fit in memory completely.
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So when you say "very low-end devices", that doesn't apply to our Evos right?
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So when you say "very low-end devices", that doesn't apply to our Evos right?
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Yes, our Evo's is hi-end device with 800mb of RAM. This is more than enough to serve even 0.5kb clusters, but because SD operates 2k sectors it will be not optimal.
But make sure that Your new sdcard have sector-aligned partitions, using for example 4EXT Recovery touch.
clankfu said:
Is it better to format the card with my phone rather than with my PC?
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Obiously....if you are going to use this card in mobile device then it is best to format the card with that mobile device...better security and fast speed :laugh:
I have a 32 GB card in my device. I copied the data from the old card into a new folder on my desktop on PC.
- After this, I formatted the new card in my phone using the option in 4ext recovery.
- Then i putted the new card in my card reader (PC) and copied the data from my old card (stored in new folder on my desktop) back to my new card
- After all this steps, i putted the new card back to my phone.
Voila, all works well as before...:good:
Hello, since yesterday I have a serious and strange problem to your sd card. Let's start that I have a moto g lte first generation. So since yesterday I can't format my sd card, I can't erase the things that are above, I tried to find errors with pc but nothing, I did scan but nothing, though I can move files from sd card to your pc, I can hear the music with the songs placed on the sd, but the strangest thing is that if I update an application , and then with link2sd the move on the sd, gives me an error and if I reboot the phone, the application is no longer updated and is moved to the internal memory, 2.7 gb free space out of 8. If I try to copy some apps on the sd using link2sd I get says "install failed container error", while if I try to use solid explorer and press for information for both the sd card to the inner one, I get says "attempt to invoke a virtual method on a null object reference". I tried to format the sd card with sd formatter however tells me the card is protected. You know me, I'm going crazy ps apps that were wrapped with link2sd on the sd card, they work. :crying:
Not sure if this is the correct place, but I have a 256 GB Samsung Evo micro-sd card. Since newer versions of Android automatically encrypt everything, including the internal/external sd cards, I cannot use this card on any other device. I've tried Linux methods, I've tried Windows methods. I've tried the official sd card formatter. Nothing will allow me to use this sd card outside of an Android device. And I find that very enraging. I've spent HOURS today on several different computers, several different operating systems, etc., to get this damn sd card usable outside of an Android device, and I have not had any luck.
Is there a way to format this micro-sd card to be used on other devices like Windows, or is it locked to Android forever now that it has touched an Android phone?
same in here... i have encrypted my 128G samsung evo plus sdcard on my former s7edge, however I forgot to decrypt the card before swapping the phone.
now I have an encryted card; which is full of files, I can see the file structure, file properties but none of the files can be opened.
I tried to format by diskpart/cleanall command; no success, I tried traditional formatting methods, no success.
I want to use my card by formatting it. please help...
STEP 1. Use Diskpart utility to wipe SD Card encryption
1) Press "Windows-R" and type "cmd" in the Run box (without the quotation mark);
2) Press "Enter" key to open a new command prompt window;
3) Click inside the command prompt window, and type "diskpart", then press "Enter" key to display volume information for all of the hard drives installed in the system;
4) Enter "select disk g" at the prompt (g is the disk number of the encrypted SD card);
5) Type "clean all" and then press "Enter" key.
After some minutes, Diskpart utility will finish wiping all data on the encrypted SD card. Now you can move on to the next step to format the card.
Please.
Has anyone managed to solve the problem?