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Grrrrrrr its happend again

No,Its just happend again about the 5th time now where its just completely or partly wiped my 1gig lexar sd card,its a good job i backed up but it shouldent keep doing this,What do u guys think could be the problem?
This is the only thing i dont like about the jam everything else is great this would probably be a reason for mr selling it and getting rid as its happening too often,Do you think it could be imates rom as ive thought about updating to qteks 1.11 or software or hardware fault (sd) any ideas would be great,It just stops this phone from being perfect for me

Same thing is happening with me. also 1 GB A-Data Sd-card
frustrating......
never happened with 128MB card before....
anyone has any cure????

happend to me in my 512MB card... but it happened when i installed a program called RSS Feeder or something like that... everything was gone from the card except for a 2 folders which had many sub-folders....... and found a file which i couldn't delete and the size of that file was about 1.9GB yes GB not MB and had weird characters in the name... it was weird

that's scary as it happened to me once but I thought it was a fluke. This means that I have to fine a place to back it up.

Who Has Pocket Mechanic Installed? i beleieve it might be the reason. check out pleasE!

i don't have it on my jam

Same thing happens to me after transfering large files using my card reader. As soon as I insert my 1Gb SD card back in my s100 the file names juble up and I can't view the contents of the folder.
This happened even before i installed pocket Mechanic.
Transfering the same files through activesync does not seem to make the problem.

I have it installed. It aint the problem.

Happend 3 times on old Rom versions..
never happend on Anasky Patched Qtek FI 1.11 .. .. .. yet..
I use a the Blue SD 1GB SanDisk card.
Keep the SD backed up on the PC have been a must after all wipes.. scary thing.
Hope its gone.. If not.. Ill get another SD card and try that out..
Anyone "Heavy SD User" here, that uses another brand and never experience this??
Please share what card U uses..
Best Regards Carlis

Hmm, I using Lexar SD 1 Gb in my O2 mini, and quite heavy user since have mini (small internal memory). I store my games, video, Mp3 and document files. Before in mini (i bought mini in February), i used in my XDA II, So far no problem.
Tips : analyst and defrag when needed using sd card reader.

I had this problem too
Hi,
I had the same problem using a blue 1GB SD card from Sandisk together with an IPAQ 4150. The problem was hard to track down. I had the feeling that it happened when I tranfered large files with my card reader and when the card is almost full.
I even contacted HP support but they did not have any other reports like this.
I then ordered another card reader (the oval one from Retec) because I suspected thr card reader to be the one to blame. it happened again with the new card reader.
The file names were all scrambled and the explorer showed files larger than the card was. Some of them could not even be deleted.
I finally bought another card reader (Hama USB 2.0 Card Reader 9in1 Part no. 47100). This fixed all problems I had with the IPAQ / 1GB sandisk combination.
I have switched to an MDA compact a few days ago and I hope that the problem that you are experiencing is related to your card reader.
I am almost certain it is.
Is there anyone having this problem who has never used the SD card in a card ready - I think not.

Try this registry patch
I did it & now I no longer suffer any SD card wipping 8)

Great thanks alot ill give it a try,did u make the patch?

No, its just a .reg file, you can run it using Resco Explorer 2003 or any other programs, or even you can enter the registry keys manually..

ezzkht, thanks!!!
what does it actually do?

Referring to what spadb said in the past forums, there is no key referring to FAT file system for the SD Card, which both the XDA I & XDA II have.
So, this registry hack will add the reference to these DLLs (which really reside in the Windows folder, but not referenced by anything!)
Plz refer to this post for more info:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=7230
All the thanks go to spadb, not me!! I just made this registry file out of what he'd discovered. :wink:

thanks man

no problem dude,,, I hope this file will solve the SD wipping problem
If anyone has lost his data, I can help to get this data back again using undelete..

Ive just been having this problem recently and applied the reg fix, only the first key, is this enough and do I also need to format my sd card with the FAT32 instead of FAT16? Many thanks

The most important keys are:
"BlockTransferSize"=dword:00000028
"FSD"="FATFSD.DLL"
But i recommend to add the whole keys.
Use Resco Explorer 2003 (even the trial version works)
With a single clic, you will have this key imported.
CHEEEEEEEEEEEERS 8)

minisd problems after device goes into standby

Anyone else having an issue where after the trinity goes into standby maybe 2-3 times you are no longer able to access the minisd card? It still shows it being there.. but if you try to open any files it comes up with errors or will hang before finally timing out. The only way to resolve it for me has been to eject it and reinsert the media. The card works fine in my Wizard so I know it's not the card. The card is a 1gb Kingston Tech.

This dosen't help you anything, but just for information; it works fine for me... I've got a 2 GB miniSD from Sandisk

export800 said:
Anyone else having an issue where after the trinity goes into standby maybe 2-3 times you are no longer able to access the minisd card? It still shows it being there.. but if you try to open any files it comes up with errors or will hang before finally timing out. The only way to resolve it for me has been to eject it and reinsert the media. The card works fine in my Wizard so I know it's not the card. The card is a 1gb Kingston Tech.
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Maybe you are right and it's not the card, but I have lost count of how many messages I have read in forums about problems with Kingston cards!
I have a 2gb Sandisk card and it works fine I use windows media player with all mp3 files stored in the card so I would have noticed this problem immediately.

thanks for the responses.. I'm going to buy a new card and see if that works better

Problem Solved!
I went ahead and picked up a 2gb transcend card and now my problem went away. Thanks for the suggestion to try another card.

export800 said:
Anyone else having an issue where after the trinity goes into standby maybe 2-3 times you are no longer able to access the minisd card? It still shows it being there.. but if you try to open any files it comes up with errors or will hang before finally timing out. The only way to resolve it for me has been to eject it and reinsert the media. The card works fine in my Wizard so I know it's not the card. The card is a 1gb Kingston Tech.
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I'm also having problems with my SanDisk 2GB card. Didn't exactly check if the problems occur once it's gone on stand-by a couple of times but yes, there have been times I've had to eject and re-insert it to get it working again.
I'm fairly sure it's a bug and not the card because I've also been using the same card in my HTC Wizard and it's worked fine.
Hope there are some ROM updates soon.

same problem with my 2gb 80x from transcend, the card disappear in file explorer , i have to eject and re insert it too.

I did see it happen once and that was on the first day of use.

hmm.. wierd my transcend 2gb card has been working flawless for the past 4 days.. whereas my kingston 1gb would disappear within a few minutes. Guess it's all in the luck of the draw at this point until we get a rom fix. At least the good news is that Trinity forced me into upgrading to a 2gb card which I wanted to do anyway. So I'll give the phone credit for at least that

Initially I had the simmilar problems with my Sandisk 2GB card.
Then I discovered that PocketMax Phonealarm 1.57.00 caused problems. After I went back to Phonealarm 1.56.10 everything worked fine again. The most recent version of Phonealarm is 1.58.00 but I did not try that version yet as 1.56.10 works fine for me.
To see if your Phonealarm is causing problems just try to uninstall, softreset and use your device for a while without Phonealarm.

Since I have never used Phonealarm I'd go for a bug.
I have a Trinity and I noticed this problem with every program or data stored on my 2gb card.
Here is my conversation with the HTC support team :
Q : "I have a serious problemn with my new p3600 : each time it resumes from stand-by mode, the micro sd card is not recognized anymore. The result is I can't use my GPS software or any program installed on the card, nor any program can access to system files or music.
WHat can I do to fix this rather bothering issue?"
A : "Dear Mr. Simon,
Thank you for contacting HTC Europe support.
With regards to your query, there are no known issues with this device and storage cards. I would however advise you that these devices though they may work with 4GB cards are only tested with 2GB cards. If your SD card is over 2GB i would advise trying a smaller one.
If the card is 2GB or smaller,you may wish to try a hard reset or a different make of card.
Failing that the contact details below are for your relevant repair center."
If anyone has a hint on this issue, please let us know because it's rather disappointing for such an expensive device.

cadarn said:
If anyone has a hint on this issue, please let us know because it's rather disappointing for such an expensive device.
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That sure was a disappointing reply from them. I'm pretty sure their tech department is aware of this and its just their support staff that aren't informed of these things.
Anyway, time to play the waiting game.

Had this issue with my 1gb kingston card but the problems occured more often when i was installing and uninstalling apps, with the 2gb from Sandisk at the moment no problems.

fluke said:
Had this issue with my 1gb kingston card but the problems occured more often when i was installing and uninstalling apps, with the 2gb from Sandisk at the moment no problems.
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No problems with my sandisk 1GB card.

I have used a kingston 2gb card for about two weeks now and I do not have any problems whatsoever with standby and this brand of miniSD

I had the same problem initially with a unbranded 2gb mini-sd purchased from ebay. I purchased a new 2gb Transcend and no problems yet.

Be Cereful with HighSpeed New SDHC Transcend
Good Morning,
It appears that the transcend card you refer to does not work in our p3600 device. Therefore it seems that the P3600 does not support SDHC cards.
Thank you for your enquiry, Should you have any other problem, please do not hesitate to call us. Your Local number can be found at http://www.europe.htc.com/support/cs_by_phone.html
Best regards,
HTC Support
[email protected]
http://www.htc.com

I just bought a sandisk 1gb and haven't noticed any bug since. Therefore it means the Trinity doesn't like no name cheap memory cards.
At last, I can make the most of my little wonder!

Has anyone tried with the sandisk ultra cards?

I have an Ultra Sandisk 2 GB and it works like a charm on my Trinity. However, I recently used the Pocket Mechanic 2,23 and it screwed up my mini sd and warrented a format from my laptop following the defragmentation of the card through Pocket Mechanic. It is reported that Pocket Mechanic screws the sds if you use them to mess/ format or defragment the cards. I reinstalled everything with the exception of PM and now I have no problems.
Regards,
Gilbert

An issue with WMP PPC v.10 can't see storage card...

Ok, I don't know what is going on but my device pics up and uses my storage card fine. However, my WMP wont' read the card and when I try to "update" the library with update library function it goes almost the whole way and gets stuck when it says adding files.
Anyone have this problem??/
errrrrrr
do you guys use a better player with sync capabilities and what have you? thanks in advance.

Go to your storage card. delete the folder MSMETADATA and then load WMP and try to update the library again. It should work now.

wow, you are my genius for the day... THANKS...
whoahooo... I have another question but I am going to post the thread over here. I know the rules are a bit different but I love my music and I am trying to set up the sync for this phone... could I pm you or link you to the other thread I am starting...

@rene_canlas: this one is bugging me as well! i'll give it a shot the next time WMP10 doesn't see my card again [just did a hard reset and formatted my microSD cause of this].

bnycastro said:
@rene_canlas: this one is bugging me as well! i'll give it a shot the next time WMP10 doesn't see my card again [just did a hard reset and formatted my microSD cause of this].
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yea, why does it do this... how does this happen?

I've owned 3 WM5 PPCs before the TyTN and didn't encounter this problem
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dopod 838 + 1Gb SanDisk miniSD = no problem
hp iPAQ rw6828 + 1Gb SanDisk miniSD = no problem
O2 XDA Exec + 4Gb Transcend SD = no problem
HTC TyTN + 1Gb Transcend microSD = problem
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I was starting to think that maybe my microSD card was defective but I guess I'm not the only one.

bnycastro said:
I was starting to think that maybe my microSD card was defective but I guess I'm not the only one.
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This is microSD card issue.
I had HTC Apache (PPC6700) with miniSD - no problem
I had Hermes with microSD 1GB SanDisk - problem
I have Hermes with microSD 2GB SanDisk - problem
AFAIR problem is with microSD card and it's Digital Rights Management.
My problem happens when I switch SimCards, new SIM card and WMP does not see nothing on microSD.
Similar problem I had with coping data (GPS maps) via card reader/writer - problems accured, via ActiveSync - no problem. Difference was in speed.

I have this problem quite frequently every week or so, really annoying. Using 2GB Sandisk card.

my TyTN had this problem, after browsing the memory card, the "MSMETADATA " folder was 32gb big...on a 2GB card? WTF????
the files inside the folder had foreign symbols on and stuff...and wouldnt delete with the normal "press the "delete" key button.."
i couldnt delete it, so i have to copy everyhting to computer, and then format the card! and after then its worked fine
bit crazy! also other media players struggled to add media files and the phone locked up...

So is it something wrong with the TyTN or is there something wrong with microSD cards in general

I had a similar problem; I put the MicroSD card in Windows and ran chkdsk /r on the MicroSD card which then said it found files, converted the lost chains to files. I then was able to delete the new "lost chains" and the original folder. I also have the SanDisk 1gb/2gb cards. I guess sometimes the card gets sort of dislodged maybe and that is what wacks it out?

christian15213 said:
Ok, I don't know what is going on but my device pics up and uses my storage card fine. However, my WMP wont' read the card and when I try to "update" the library with update library function it goes almost the whole way and gets stuck when it says adding files.
Anyone have this problem??/
errrrrrr
do you guys use a better player with sync capabilities and what have you? thanks in advance.
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I have had the same problem on my TyTN since June. The work about is only a temporary solution.
I contacted HTC Europe and they advised me that they were are aware of the problem and that it would be corrected in a future update. Have updated but still have the problem.
I have noticed that the file MSMETADATA is not present on the storage cards on the latest phones. So I will take mine in to be repaired.
I suggest you do the same.

I don't know this for a fact but i have read that it is a problem with sandisk cards only...anyone know if this is true. I had it and i have a 1gb sandisk.

Problems with cards over 1GB... what's the cause?

Hi All,
I have had numerous problems with my 2GB card such as files and directories disappearing; files showing up on Windows when I plug my SD card in, but not on the PPC.
Anyone know the cause of these issues? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? I don't think it's the new high speed format card either. It's a corsair brand.
Thanks

Raeldor said:
Hi All,
I have had numerous problems with my 2GB card such as files and directories disappearing; files showing up on Windows when I plug my SD card in, but not on the PPC.
Anyone know the cause of these issues? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? I don't think it's the new high speed format card either. It's a corsair brand.
Thanks
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I have the same problem. its a known issue in the trinity. no solution yet.
waiting for a rom to fix that..

I have no problems with files and directories disappearing and I'm using sandisk 2GB mini sd. It seems like sandisk 2gb doesnt have any problems in TomTom either.

Also using a 2GB Sandisk and no problems whatsoever with any rom version.

No problem with my Sandisk 2G MiniSD too!
Sometimes my phone do not detect the card when it was inserted, but no problem when I insert again. It won't "mssing" or lost data as long as it was regonized.
I think it may related to the brand.

my 2gb minisd corsair card became unreadable yesterday and my phone asked to format it. ( after the phone format i only have 1Gb free space. does anyone knows how to format this card with my phone as a 2gb card, because it seems that my phone format it as a 1gb card?

My 2GB sandisk is working OK too. I think make sure the mini sd card is not a high speed one. Mine is x66

yaz00us said:
my 2gb minisd corsair card became unreadable yesterday and my phone asked to format it. ( after the phone format i only have 1Gb free space. does anyone knows how to format this card with my phone as a 2gb card, because it seems that my phone format it as a 1gb card?
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Try reformatting with your desktop PC using a card reader.

Have no problem with my 4GB miniSD card at all - everything present and running

dabs1 said:
Have no problem with my 4GB miniSD card at all - everything present and running
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Which Brand do you have?

I have a Kingston 2GB card, and it works great, except Media Player seems to screw things up. There are about 1GB of songs on it, and when Media Player creates the library, it creates a hidden folder on the card called MSMETADATA. Inside the folder it creates some kind of MediaLibrary file, which appears to get corrupted. When it does, trying to play anything from the storage card's library results in a media player error. But deleting that folder and running an Update Library works fine. Selecting a song to play directly also works.
The first time this happened, I couldn't figure out what was going on, and a hard reset didn't fix it. Sticking the card into my PC's media card reader showed me the hidden folder, since I didn't have "Show All Files" turned on on the device. It's happened a couple of times since then. But now that I know what's going on, it's a quick fix. I think removing the card might be what messes it up.
-John

Well, my Sandisk Ultra 2GB was fine until sometime in last couple of weeks.
Now it does not appear at all desipte multiple reinsertions. Need to but another adaptor before I can test in reader. But nothing changed on Trinity - now new apps installed, card never removed from slot - just vanished (not unrecognised - no prompts to format it - it just isn't there).
Any thoughts?
running Dopod ROM on HTC BTW

Mark One said:
Well, my Sandisk Ultra 2GB was fine until sometime in last couple of weeks.
Now it does not appear at all desipte multiple reinsertions. Need to but another adaptor before I can test in reader. But nothing changed on Trinity - now new apps installed, card never removed from slot - just vanished (not unrecognised - no prompts to format it - it just isn't there).
Any thoughts?
running Dopod ROM on HTC BTW
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Hmmm, very strange, I'm sure you tried soft reset. If it works in card reader, I guess you can copy everyting off of it and reformat it, maybe that will help. All this card disappearing stuff with the Trinity is very strange, it never happended with my 4gb SD in my Prophet in over a year. Mind you, I haven't had any problems with my current 4gb mini SD either but it hasn't been that long yet.
Good luck.

mavisdavis said:
Which Brand do you have?
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OEM card from MobyMemory.com

standard sandisk 2gb seem very reliable, maybe its the high speed ones that cause problems, i ordered 2gb ultra2 & had major problems, ie not detecting & when did it wanted to format then giving me only 968mb,
my 2gb (standard) sandisk works flawlessly

SD CARD Problem: Which brand and type is working on TD2 ????

Hello
Maybe someone can help me:
I use my diamond 2 to listen music. My micro sd card is transcend 8 go class 6.
The problem stills the same with many rom, WM 61 or 65...
I never knew that problem with my diamond 1.
So the problem is that the SD Card "disappear" after few second of music playing. Its like there's no card in the phone. To recover it, I have to open the battery cover, extract and input the card (or soft reset).
I ll try another sd card tomorrow, but I’m pretty sure of the quality of my transcend (which was formatted before first use of course).
Do you think I have to send back to seller ?
thanks a lot !
rom tess V13
radio 3462518

Hello
The problem was due to a defective micro sd ( counterfeit ?) (except the TD2 doesnt support class6 sd ?)
ciao

i have an 8 gb trancend cass 6 and it works fine on my diamond 2 but dosnt work on my fuze. i think its a software issue

i have the same problem as you.
i solved it by buying a new micro sd card
(changed from eagletech class 6 to toshiba class 4
would u pls tell me how u fixed the problem? thanks!
nooms said:
Hello
Maybe someone can help me:
I use my diamond 2 to listen music. My micro sd card is transcend 8 go class 6.
The problem stills the same with many rom, WM 61 or 65...
I never knew that problem with my diamond 1.
So the problem is that the SD Card "disappear" after few second of music playing. Its like there's no card in the phone. To recover it, I have to open the battery cover, extract and input the card (or soft reset).
I ll try another sd card tomorrow, but I’m pretty sure of the quality of my transcend (which was formatted before first use of course).
Do you think I have to send back to seller ?
thanks a lot !
rom tess V13
radio 3462518
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I have the same problem too.
I have the transcend 8 Go Class6. So I will try to change my sdcard and inform you if my problem is solved.

you may also try installing Advanced config tool that can be found here on the xda forum.
Use this program to increase the PNP wait I/O delay
This may help with your dissaperaing SD card

nooms said:
Hello
The problem was due to a defective micro sd ( counterfeit ?) (except the TD2 doesnt support class6 sd ?)
ciao
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NO NO NO
it wasnt a counterfeit.
I bought a new micro sd silicon power 8 Go class 6, and the problem still the same. The card dissapears 30 sec after the beginning of mp3 playing.
I can only use my kingston 4 Go class 4 to work.
I tried to increase the PNP delay to 2500 but nothing change.
I think again of the class of the card to be responsible ...
rom essential 1.5

I have a similar problem - only that it happens on occasions. Can't say what exactly triggers this. I contacted HTC tech support, I suggest you do the same.
If I get an answer i'll post back.

Which size of MicroSd does the TD2 support?
Until 8Gb or 16Gb?
Is there even a limit of speed-class?
If all you guys have problems with that card it would be interesting to try the same card of the same brand and size but of class 4 so we could check if the problem is actually that one (I think it could be solved through some software fixing/updating)!

I have an 8GB Sandisk MicroSD card, and it starting acting wonky a few weeks ago. I just upgraded to HTCs new official WWE ROM that was posted last week, and I'm still having the problem, but more often now. after retsart or removing and reinserting the SD card, it appears, then, more often than not, it disappears and I can't access it. Has anyone figured out a fix for this?

luca T said:
Which size of MicroSd does the TD2 support?
Until 8Gb or 16Gb?
Is there even a limit of speed-class?
If all you guys have problems with that card it would be interesting to try the same card of the same brand and size but of class 4 so we could check if the problem is actually that one (I think it could be solved through some software fixing/updating)!
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sandisk 16 GB class 2 here...and it work without any troubles....

unfortunately we didn't find fix for the moment....
which class is ur sd please ? 2 ? 4 ? 6 ?

I have a class 4 Kingstone and has always worked well with all the ROMs that I've installed

Mine is SanDisk 4 GB Class 2. Today after copying of a new TOPAIMG to the card, it disappeared. It is impossible to see it even on my PC card reader. I have had no problems until today. I think my problem is faulty cd card. Ordered a new one Transcend 8 GB Class 6. But after I read this thread I'm so confused.

nooms said:
unfortunately we didn't find fix for the moment....
which class is ur sd please ? 2 ? 4 ? 6 ?
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Is there a way to see the speed-class through the software?

I have a similar problem only it dessapears on random times. I use an 8GB class4 sd card

8GB Sandisk Mobile Ultra (class 6) here - no problems at all.

4gb Sandisk 2class - no problems, but i can't use rom flashing from SD card - bootloader doesn't see the image

Tim4 said:
4gb Sandisk 2class - no problems, but i can't use rom flashing from SD card - bootloader doesn't see the image
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toshiba class 4 , 8g , works fine

This week my second Sandisk 16Gb class 2 SDHC started behaving erroneously. I sent the first one back to SanDisk to have it replaced, but as the second disk shows the same problem I'm thinking something in the Diamond2 must be the cause of the problem.
The problem: the storage card would suddenly disappear from the file explorer. Any applications using the disk would stop and the WM6 system would create another 'Storage card' directory on the internal memory.
With the first disk the DCIM directory was the problem. Opening that directory with the file explorer would crash the disk every time. With the second disk the problem seems to be in the music directory. I can't browse into that directory without seeing the card disappear again. The same thing happens in Vista when I insert the card using the USB adapter.
I somehow suspect that TF3D has something to do with it, because the album tab uses the first directory and the music tab the second one. TF3D is the link between them.
TF3D runs all the time and I can imagine that at some point it was accessing the card while I disconnected the Diamond2 from Activesync, or when the battery ran flat. Anyhow, something went wrong with the file system integrity on both cards.
While at first the disks would mount on restarts, and would be readable using the USB adapter, after a couple of reformatting attempts the first disk turned out to be 100% unreadable from mobile as well as PC. The second one is still mounting but none of the approaches seem to get it back on track. No matter what I try I can't delete the faulty music directory, and as soon as any formatting tool starts indexing before format the disk disappears again. I'm afraid it's on the same route to demise as the first one.