Damaged SD card

[Guest Dan Mullen]

I got this error for the first time yesterday. Couldn't access both my ext3 and fat32 partitions. I repartitioned the card and started from scratch, which fixed it. However, I just checked my phone and it stopped responsing, then rebooted. On startup, my SD card is damaged again.

Anyone know if there's a fix for this or does it point to physical damage to the card?

Cheers,

Dan

[Guest shenshang]

yeah it happened to me before, while using a class 4 SD, changed to a class 6 and it all worked fine =\ are you on a class 6?

[Guest ptruman]

I got this error for the first time yesterday. Couldn't access both my ext3 and fat32 partitions. I repartitioned the card and started from scratch, which fixed it. However, I just checked my phone and it stopped responsing, then rebooted. On startup, my SD card is damaged again.

Anyone know if there's a fix for this or does it point to physical damage to the card?

Cheers,

Dan

Stupid question, but have you removed the card, cleaned the connector strips (meths on a cotton bud is good) and shot some compressed air around (not directly into) the card slot? It's possibly as simple as a bad connection.

If you've not moved the card recently, it's unlikely physically damaged, but it's possible one of the chips is bad and thus it fails when it hits that spot.

Either way, try http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/eula/ - which is the official SD card formatter...see what it says/does, and try again - failing that, try another card?

[Guest Dan Mullen]

It's a class 6 and I've haven't removed it since I first got my Hero. I'll try that formatting prog, though something tells me I'm going to end up needing a new card :)

[Guest shenshang]

It's a class 6 and I've haven't removed it since I first got my Hero. I'll try that formatting prog, though something tells me I'm going to end up needing a new card :)

have you tried a wipe of the hero and the sd card?

[Guest Fleming]

I used to get this. Formatted my card (class 4) with Amon-RA's recovery image before a full wipe and not seen the error since.

[Guest Dan Mullen]

have you tried a wipe of the hero and the sd card?

Yeah, backed up, wiped, repartitioned card, restored and it was fine. One day later though, it came up damaged again.

[Guest Dan Mullen]

I used to get this. Formatted my card (class 4) with Amon-RA's recovery image before a full wipe and not seen the error since.

That's what I used to repartition the card. Just done it for a second time, so let's see how long it lasts... hopefully it won't happen again!

[Guest shenshang]

That's what I used to repartition the card. Just done it for a second time, so let's see how long it lasts... hopefully it won't happen again!

one more thing, using ext3 or ext4 for a2sd will kill your sd card very quickly, thats the catch :) the performance benefits are outweighed by the shortened sd lifespan.

[Guest Bice]

I got this error for the first time yesterday. Couldn't access both my ext3 and fat32 partitions. I repartitioned the card and started from scratch, which fixed it. However, I just checked my phone and it stopped responsing, then rebooted. On startup, my SD card is damaged again.

Anyone know if there's a fix for this or does it point to physical damage to the card?

Cheers,

Dan

I had the same issue. Didn't you partitioned your whole card to ext?

You should choose: 0Mb for swap, 512 Mb for ext, and FAT32 for the rest of your memory.

[Guest Dan Mullen]

I had the same issue. Didn't you partitioned your whole card to ext?

You should choose: 0Mb for swap, 512 Mb for ext, and FAT32 for the rest of your memory.

Yeah, it was partitioned correctly, just like that. The problem hasn't returned so all seems OK again :)