Help! Empty battery - now memory card unusable!

[Guest Xpressive]

Strange! As I woke up this morning I noticed that my phone's battery was completely empty and the phone was dead. I put it into the cradle, recharged the battery and booted up. Now I realized that all the programs on the storage card don't work anymore (error: can't found...) I explored the Storage Card folder (it's still the original shipped 8MB card) and noticed that ALL data has gone! It's completely empty now!

If that wasn't enough, I am not able to copy any data to the card anymore -it always pops up an error message like 'not enough memory to complete this operation'.

What to hell happened here??? Is this a known bug or what? What can I do to revitalze my memory card?

Mike

[Guest adam]

You could format the card as a last resort, I believe Task Manager could do that.

Although, it sounds like the data is still there, because of your error message. If you have or know anyone with a card reader it may help. Just depends whether you have anything you don't want to delete on the card.

[Guest Xpressive]

Deleting the data on the card isn't a problem since I backed up all that files on my PC. How can I reformat the card? I can't use Task Manager since it was also stored on the card.

Will a hard reset help here? And is this a known bug or should I give my phone back now? :cry:

WAIT! I rebootet the phone and everything seems to be ok again. The files are still on the card and all the programs work again. Strange :)

[Guest fozzie]

This has happened to me a couple of times with the Storage Card not being read. Ususally ejecting it and re-inserting it gets it going again.

[Guest Xpressive]

Does it hurt the phone or card if I eject and insert it while the phone is ON or should I set the phone to OFF before?

[Guest fozzie]

I don't see why it should cause any damage. I do take the precaution of going to my Homescreen first, before removing and inserting memory cards. I do this when I'm moving files around between cards (and hence the reason I suggest to people that a file explorer program is installed to IPSM and not the Storage Card - so that it always works, no matter what card is inserted)