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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.

How To Install Themes

I've read the Wiki and still can't find it. How do I install themes on my Wizard?

copy the .tsk files into your windows directory.

you mean .tsk?
Copy them to /my documents, and go to /start menu/settings/today, then choose your theme.

I kept getting a message about disc being write protected. Remove protection or use another disc. Any idea what that means? Also do I save them to the phone or to memory card?

nothin said:
you mean .tsk?
Copy them to /my documents, and go to /start menu/settings/today, then choose your theme.
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an what did i say? And btw, the default theme directory is \windows.

Christogq said:
I kept getting a message about disc being write protected. Remove protection or use another disc. Any idea what that means? Also do I save them to the phone or to memory card?
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Anybody got anything on this?

I said save it to \windows which obviously is on your phone not on the mem card. As for that "write protected" stuff i don't know what to think of it man.
open "my computer", double click on "my mobile device", navigate to windows, copy/paste your themes to windows directory and they will appear in the today theme menu. if you still don't undersatnd then i give up./

You can copy the theme files also to SD card either directly in the main SD card folder or in a folder which does not go deeper than 1 level (meaning: Storage card\Themes\ ) This keeps your precious internal memory free for other things!

I UNDERSTAND what you said and that is what I did. That message is what I got when I did that. I tried it on the phone and the card. Thanks anyway though. Themes are overrated anyway I'm not stopping till I brick this thing!!!!!!

If you copy them on to your SD card, don't put them in any file on there. Put them straight on to "\storage card". The question I have is are you getting the write protected error on your phone or on your computer and if you're getting that error on your computer end can you copy any other files over to your storage card? I was thinking that maybe you accidentally write protected your storage card.

xeno1 said:
If you copy them on to your SD card, don't put them in any file on there. Put them straight on to "\storage card". The question I have is are you getting the write protected error on your phone or on your computer and if you're getting that error on your computer end can you copy any other files over to your storage card? I was thinking that maybe you accidentally write protected your storage card.
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I was getting it on the computer, but for some reason everything's cool with it now. I dunno. Thanks guys.

Cannot delete file with question mark in it

Somehow an installation file became named PocketPuTTY_WM2k3_release_?007-02-28.zip I don't know how the question mark got there, but now it won't let me delete it. What do I do? Won't let me rename it, either. Total Commander doesn't work either.

Sounds like it is corrupt. Have you tried a soft reset?

wassup said:
Sounds like it is corrupt. Have you tried a soft reset?
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If you mean holding down the power button and restarting it, then yes.
When I try to rename it to remove the question mark, it says "A file name cannot contain any of the following characters: \/:*?"<>|"

Can anyone help me with this? The file is named PocketPuTTY_WM2k3_release_?007-02-28.zip

Hi endolith,
Is the file on the device or on the memory card, if it's on the memory card then copy everything onto your PC and format the card then copy it all back.
Just a thought.

dav3ywrx said:
Is the file on the device or on the memory card, if it's on the memory card then copy everything onto your PC and format the card then copy it all back.
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Yeah it's on the device. I downloaded a thing that turns the device memory into a USB storage device, and I can access it in Linux and see the bytes, but can't mount it as a drive. I think it's not formatted with a normal file system.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=803050

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That's a good idea to use WM5torage to try and delete it.
You could try deleting it with Total Commander for Pocket PC but if that fails it may be hard reset time. Perhaps that would be the best thing anyway as I had a problem similar to this on the MiniSD card and never trusted it again until I formatted it but it seems like a drastic measure just to remove one file.
Good luck.

dav3ywrx said:
You could try deleting it with Total Commander for Pocket PC
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Tried that too. I wonder if there's another file manager that can do lower-level things.
but if that fails it may be hard reset time. Perhaps that would be the best thing anyway as I had a problem similar to this on the MiniSD card and never trusted it again until I formatted it but it seems like a drastic measure just to remove one file.
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Maybe I can use WM5torage read/write and use a byte editor? Or maybe there's a low-level memory editor available for WM5.

Yes, indeed, if you can find something that will alter the file allocation table then perhaps you could replace the dodgy character in the file name, leave the hard reset as a last resort.

Use a MiniSD card reader or WM5Storage and use the MSDOS commandline interface to delete the file by using wildcards.
e.g., from start/run/cmd.exe
Code:
z: (or whatever drive your SD card is in)
cd "\directory name\with quotations\if you use spaces"
del PocketPutty*.zip

_Alex_ said:
Use a MiniSD card reader or WM5Storage and use the MSDOS commandline interface to delete the file by using wildcards.
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WM5torage doesn't seem to be able to turn the main memory into a drive, though. It creates 3 partitions, but none of them seem to be mountable.

DHD error Mounted ReadOnly

Hi all, I have seen ths problem cropping up and now it has happened to my little old DHD. I did nothing specific to start this error. I have popped my sd card in an adapter the tried to browse some files via my PC, the only folded which it cannot read due to being corrupt is a folder called Android.
Is there any solutions or will I need a format?
Thanks

Use disk kontrol
In explorer right click on the memory card and select properties.
Under the second tab choose the first button.
Make sure that the first box is selected.
Click start and let it run.
When it's finished, the memory card should be working again.

[Q] newbie can't get cm7 to work

Hi,
Like I said I am a newbie. I am trying to get cm7 to work on my nookcolor but For some reason when I try to burn it to the micro sd card it deosn't show up, just the folder it's in and the folders empty. Can someone give me some advise

chad11 said:
Hi,
Like I said I am a newbie. I am trying to get cm7 to work on my nookcolor but For some reason when I try to burn it to the micro sd card it deosn't show up, just the folder it's in and the folders empty. Can someone give me some advise
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Follow this Guide to the letter and you will be fine!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227

Thanks but isn't that the way to run it of the internal flash. I want to run it of the sd card so I can go back to the regular nook if I want to.

chad11 said:
Thanks but isn't that the way to run it of the internal flash. I want to run it of the sd card so I can go back to the regular nook if I want to.
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Use this for sd install.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957

That's what I started with and When I went to write it to the sd card I couldn't because I couldn't find it in the folder

chad11 said:
That's what I started with and When I went to write it to the sd card I couldn't because I couldn't find it in the folder
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You need to run 7zip and unzip the file to a .img file. The dowload comes through as a .img.gz file. When you have that, write the file you extracted to your usd with win32diskimager or what ever burn program you like.

I am able to get as far as it is downloading it to the sd card. I can see the progress bar and as it is at 80% or 90% it says it can't read the image file. what gives?

What program are you using to copy the image to the sd card?
You may want to use win32diskimager or WinImage85 to copy image to SD card. You cannot simply copy files over to SD card.
Using any of these programs will reformat card in the process and copy image to SD card.
Make sure you're unzipping the installer and copying just single file from size agnostic installer. After the image is on SD card, go ahead and copy CM7 and Google Apps.
Insert SD card on NK and boot it, it will start installation automatically.

I tried using win32diskimager and winimage but neither can do it. With win32diskimager I can't even find the file and with winimage I can find it but when it is downloading it says it can't read the image file

chad11 said:
I tried using win32diskimager and winimage but neither can do it. With win32diskimager I can't even find the file and with winimage I can find it but when it is downloading it says it can't read the image file
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With Win32diskimager ( What I use)--It will NOT see the file you need to burn to usd-Until you unzip the dowloaded file with 7zip. You MUST unzip the .img.gz file you download to get the extracted .img file for burning. Once you have it extracted to your desktop, click on the browse button in win32diskimager(the little folder next to the image line) and select the .img file. Select the drive you have your usd card mounted in (it will be a letter for your usb port), and click write.

what is 7zip

chad11 said:
what is 7zip
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It is an unpacking/unzipping program--read about and download here:
http://www.7-zip.org/

thank you times a billion. I finally thing I got it all ready. now, is there anything I should know before I try it. Stuff like problems tricks or tips.

copy google apps to SD card. The installer should go ahead and install CM7 and google apps.
on mine it worked perfectly. it's not guaranteed that it works every time, but it worked for me so may want to give it a try and it will save you some time.
btw, on my earlier post I named the same program 2x, I meant to say win32diskimager or WinImage85. sorry about that.