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XDArit tells me SD card not formatted

I backed up my ROM from my XDA onto an SD card.
When I run XDArit, it reports that card is not formatted, do I want to format it? I just noticed that trying to read the card in file manager, I get the same message.
I remember when I did the ROM backup I chose CE + BOOT.
What is wrong?

Try using XDArit version 1.0 which can be download from the software section at: http://www.yorch.net

Qman
This version seemed better but was a bit confusing.
When run it asks me to chose read from or write to SD card.
I chose "read from"
Then it brings up window to choose files to read for
Bootloader and
Windows CE
There is a directory button labelled ".." to the right of these.
When I click on them it brings up a box that asks me to "save as"
If I add *.nb0 for boot and *.nb1 for CE, I get a device failed message.
However, when I try to read the SD card through file manager on my PC, I get the same "device not formatted" error.
HELP!

i seem to remember reading somewhere on these forums that the pc cannot read the sd card once the image has been written, so you will receive 'device not formatted errors' although it is likely that the data is on the card.

Confirming you're using XDArit 1.0 version?
Also your saved ROM is not saved in a standard windows FAT format so Windows Explorer wants to format it so it can read/write it
As far as "Read from SD card" goes just use a name something like xda.nb1 for Windows CE and xda.nb0 for the bootloader.

Qman
Noted about saved ROM format. That must be why file manager does not recognize card.
Yes I'm using XDArit 1.0
There are 5 different disks to read from in the drop down menu. All have the same name and report the same error, "Failed Device"
"failed to open and read device ()"
when I tried using the names you suggested.

Joe_PDA said:
There are 5 different disks to read from in the drop down menu. All have the same name and report the same error, "Failed Device"
"failed to open and read device ()"
when I tried using the names you suggested.
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Now thats strange, because you should at least be able to read your hard drive! What of PC SD card reader are you using?

I had the same problem with "format the card" message and guessed that wasn't really the problem.
I couldn't get "write to SD" to work, it kept saying "failed to write" or somthing like that, so following this thread I tried the same thing with the older version of XDArit and it worked!!
My xda is back from the dead.
Thanks guys.

Same for me, and everything's OK , using XDArit old version
Thanks a lot guys for all the wonderful job you're doing on this site and forum !!!! You're GREAT :!:

The old version of XDArit did get me farther along in the process.
However I still end up not able to read from the SD card with my ROM.
Qman,
I'm using a Dazzle 6 in 1 card reader, which works well for all other reading /writing I do.
Although there are 5 disks in the drop down menu, they all have the same name, although the program recognizes them as 1-5.
I know that after the backup process I saw the "completed" message.

Here is another trick with xdarit:
Situation: Win2000 Advanced Server / Win2003 Enterprise Server, two different motherboards.
PQI TravelFlash "5in1" or PQI TravelFlash "6in1" (behaves similar).
No USB hosts
New or "old" XDARit version are the same.
Problem: Unable to read image from SD with "reading success" message after 1 second but resulting file size is 1k instead of 32Mb
Solution (at least it 100% works for me): just write something to XD with XDARit. After this all read/write operation are really success until xdaRit not restarted.

Using the XDA rom image tool with a USB SM card reader

I am attempting to use the XDA Rom image Tool to write a rom on to my SD card but I keep getting the error message "Failed to open device \\.\physicaldrive11.
My sd card reader is a dazzle high speed usb reader & writer.

Don't do it with XDARit until the new version is released. It looks like you have several logical drives on single physical hard disks. Am I correct? If you use XDARit, you might end up writing over a partition table of a Harddrive.
Best to use XDARit when you have a single Drive C, 1 or more CDRoms, and no other devices except your SD reader.
Wade

you may try it now actually, just haven't officially released it yet, and it may get more documentation.
tell me what you think of it:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~itsme/projects/xda/OsImageTool.html
it does less than xdarit, but does it faster, and probably safer, with less risk of destroying other disks.

I am trying it. I am trying to use the Device Memory as the source and then for the Destination, I am trying to use the File Selector to select Test.nb1 as the Destination. It says, Test.nb1 , File Not Found. Please verify that the correct Filename was given.
I then created an empty text file and renamed it to Test.nb1. Then I retried. It liked it since the File existed.
Then I had a sense of foreboding and I canceled everything, fearing that I might be trying to flash my device with an empty file if things went wrong. :shock:
So I am hoping to get a warmer fuzzy before trying it.
PS. I did try and flash my SD with an NK.nbf and it worked great.
Wade

Did it!
I used the USB reader on a machine with a single hard drive and cd rom and it worked great.
Thanks for the advice wbalzer.

I think it suffers the same shortcoming as pnewbootloader, that it needs
pput.exe.
I added it to the archive now.

if you select 'device memory' as a destination, it will start "programme a"
so you will have plenty of opportunities to click cancel, if you didn't mean
to do so.

XDARit 1.02 does not want to WRITE my SD-Card

Hi there,
I wanted to burn a 5.15 bootloader along with a cooked nbf ROM on a 128 MB SD-Card, but when I select
- Bootloader: C:\XDA1\boot515.nb0
- Windows CE: C:\XDA1\nk.nbf
I get "Failed to open device \\.\PhysicalDrive11
I tried with the SD either just formatted or with a 5.14 bootloader + wince backuped from XDA1 device. :evil:
I deactivated my eTrust antivirus, still no luck. :evil: :roll:
Any :idea: ? Thanks,

Use XDAtools instead of XDArit. XDArit is old and not very intuitive, XDAtools is not perfect, but certainly much better.

Hmmm - Thanks for the hint Peter, but I have no luck either with XDA Tools.What I want to do is simply replace my 5.14 bootloader with 5.15.
When pointing to my boot515.nb0, XDAtools says "unsupported file format"; don't know how to read sourcefile C:\XDA1\boot515.nb0
Fix Broken Bootloader stops with:
C:\XDATOOLS>pnewbootloader bootloader_v5_15.nb0
'C:\XDATOOLS\pput.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
ERROR: ITReadProcessMemory - Unspecified error
Unable to find flash info offset, cannot disable bootloader writeprotect.
>> Any workaround? Is it just me?
thanks,

WM5torage error: "the path is too deep"

This error message appears when I try to copy a file from my computer to a miniSD card in my Wizard running WM5torage.
Is there a way to fix it?
Thank you.

yeh !
I had the same problem.
First of all I removed the check marks in Menu>Troubleshooting.
I did that and it got better. but still I can't copy the larg files to the miniSD card.

Re6400 said:
This error message appears when I try to copy a file from my computer to a miniSD card in my Wizard running WM5torage.
Is there a way to fix it?
Thank you.
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Use a card reader on your computer to load the files to the SD.
Your computer's OS doesn't care what depth of file structure you're trying to dump something into, and once it's already there, neither will your phone.

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