Guest Revhead Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 I realised the other night that something was wrong with my phone. Things had stopped working and those things were all located on my storage card. I realised then that my phone could no longer see or recognise the card and despite a soft reset, removing and reseating the card - it is still not able to recognise it. Has anyone else had the same thing happen? Is there anything I can do or will I just have to replace it?
Guest Gibeon Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 Same here! Even with different cards and roms....
Guest yahsaves Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 I have had this happen a couple of times. Something on the card gets corrupted and the phone can no longer use the card. You have to take the card out of the phone and reformat it on your pc. After that reload it and it should work fine.
Guest Revhead Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 Must have something to do with disconnecting it from the PC incorrectly? I've never treated it as a USB device, just yanked the cord out when I'm finished. In future, I'm going to install my essential programs to My Storage. This has left me without SatNav when I can least afford it. Same fantastic sense of timing as my wife :-(
Guest Gibeon Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 I have had this happen a couple of times. Something on the card gets corrupted and the phone can no longer use the card. You have to take the card out of the phone and reformat it on your pc. After that reload it and it should work fine. How do I have to format it? What kind of fileformat?
Guest thekevster Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 How do I have to format it? What kind of fileformat? connect your phone to your pc as a mass storage device through storage card. go to my computer and right click on removable storage device and click format. you have an option to do a quick format or a full format. a full format is more thorough and will make the card like it was the day you got it. be sure to do it as a FAT32 drive.
Guest Gibeon Posted October 26, 2009 Report Posted October 26, 2009 connect your phone to your pc as a mass storage device through storage card. go to my computer and right click on removable storage device and click format. you have an option to do a quick format or a full format. a full format is more thorough and will make the card like it was the day you got it. be sure to do it as a FAT32 drive. I cant, because there is no storage card option at the mass storage USB setting. However, Ill try my cardreader.
Guest Revhead Posted November 1, 2009 Report Posted November 1, 2009 I have been unable to reformat my card so far. I managed to pull pics etc off it using my laptop's card reader and PhotoRec (it runs Linux). But I cannot get Windows to recognise it. I need to reformat it in Fat32 using Linux but I don't know how (running PCLinux2009).
Guest Revhead Posted November 1, 2009 Report Posted November 1, 2009 I have been unable to reformat my card so far. I managed to pull pics etc off it using my laptop's card reader and PhotoRec (it runs Linux). But I cannot get Windows to recognise it. I need to reformat it in Fat32 using Linux but I don't know how (running PCLinux2009).
Guest Revhead Posted November 3, 2009 Report Posted November 3, 2009 This is driving me nuts. I got my Linux laptop to recognise card, then I was able to put it in my Canon camera and reformat the card - but my PC will still not recognise it. Autoplay starts and bombs out. Tried to run Chkdsk from command line and do a repair, but it returns the error message that it can't get direct access. Anyone got any bright ideas? Is there a program that I can download for PC Linux 2009 that will allow me to reformat it using FAT32?
Guest marco007 Posted November 4, 2009 Report Posted November 4, 2009 I had the same problem with the card two weeks ago... A pc with Windows, also, didn't recognize it, so I formatted it using Linux (Ubuntu). I used GParted; first I remove the partition, second I defined a new partition and, then, I formatted it again. You can use, also, the command "dd" to force the writing of 0s in the card... this can assure that all of it is rewritten; search on google "wipe dd" for the instructions on this command.
Guest Revhead Posted November 5, 2009 Report Posted November 5, 2009 Don't you just hate posts that never finish with a resolution. Well, I fixed it. I took it to work and used one of the machines there to try to read it but still no luck. Then I gave it to one of the other guys to try and it worked (using his card reader). Moral of the story. It could possibly have been the card reader? Then I tried to change the storage option for my camera to the card but it was greyed out. Checking further I discovered the system thought there were two storage cards - Storage Card and Storage Card 2 (the latter the one in question). It became apparent that one of the programs had created a virtual card which I was able to delete and then all was and is good. Now, the only things I plan on storing to the card are pictures, music, movies etc. It's a pain when you find things installed to the card no longer work (like navigation). I have installed all my apps to My Storage which in hindsight was virtually unused before.
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