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xbackup killed my SD card???

Sorry, newbie so sorry if answerd else where
xda II running fine, put in my new kingston 528meg SD card, seems ok. ran xbackup for first time and is slow so left it to run overnight. woke up message says done ok. BUT now xda can't see storage card at all!! :?
tried reset, same. tried 32meg SD card out of wifes Nokia: sees that fine. cant try kingston SD in Nokia cos its a different physical size
Any ideas? or can you reformat these SD cards in the xda?
Thanks

if pocket mechanics cant formet it because it cant see the card then
a sd reader for the pc they are only like 10$ would most likely see it
or you could try and see if your wife's phone could format it
or another device which use SD cards like a camera

just tried CNetX flashformat but it cant see the card damm why are SD cards different sizes ( wont fit in wifes nokia and camera is Compact flash memory) arrgggggg

are you sure that the nokia use sd?
because the nokia's i've seen use mmc flash which look just like sd but thinner and sd devices can use mmc but not the other way around
did you try pocket mechanics?

doh my mistake yup the nokia 6230 is mmc
tried pocket mechanics to no avail. mate popping round with his xda ii in a mo so i can try his card and vice versa. hes going to take my card and try and format it with his pc which has a built in reader
ill keep you posted :idea:

UPDATE
Card is dead! tried it in mates xda ii and his pc and it can't be seen. off to post it back to China! ( ebay rules )

xBackup isn't what killed your card - it was the XDA itself.
I have destroyed a 1GB Toshiba, and a 512MB Toshiba so far.
My 256MB Kingston has been fine.

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Put the card to a card-reader/writer(on a PC) and try to check it for errors(Scandisk/Chkdsk). If it doesn't help,try to format the card with standard FAT32 filesystem... My experience is,that the filesystem can be injured the same way as a floppy when you remove it(cut-off data transfer) before is any file not closed for write yet. I loosed once all my important data from SD. The /Storage is the most secure place for my important documents,that I know.

SD Card will not reformat

Firstly I should say Hi now I have finally registered here after lurking for a while
Please excuse me if you have seen this posted on another site too, I really need help with this
When I put my SD card into my card reader or laptop (I have tried it on both), I get the message "The Disc in drive E: is not formatted, would you like to format it now?" So I press yes and it says... "The Disc in Drive E: Cannot be formatted".
Any ideas?
This is so frustrating, I know I can install things through activesync but I am trying to put TomTom back on which I need to do via the card reader. (BTW, I would never have got TomTom installed the first time around if it wasnt for this site )
Please help.

Are you using a fairly recent USB2 card reader or one you've had for a while. If its not a new one then you're probably going to have problems with a 2G sd card.

I bought it off ebay about a month ago. so it should be fairly modern, it doesnt work in the slot in my laptop either. I know that 2 gig cards are ok on the laptop as I use the camera SD with it no problems.
I have used SK Tools to reformat it, having done this I lost all my programs on the phone so I had to hard reset. After this I can open up the stoarge card on the laptop but when I try to copy my Tomtom over it comes up with a 'write-protection' error, no problems moving cab files over and installing via activesync. Although I cant install TomTom this way because of the file conversion.
Im wondering now if maybe the SK tools format did the job and maybe my problem lays with Tomtom, it worked before though so I just dont understand it.
Thanks for your reply. I shall have to try that program.

I bought it off ebay about a month ago. so it should be fairly modern, it doesnt work in the slot in my laptop either. I know that 2 gig cards are ok on the laptop as I use the camera SD with it no problems.
I have used SK Tools to reformat it, having done this I lost all my programs on the phone so I had to hard reset. After this I can open up the stoarge card on the laptop but when I try to copy my Tomtom over it comes up with a 'write-protection' error, no problems moving cab files over and installing via activesync. Although I cant install TomTom this way because of the file conversion.
Im wondering now if maybe the SK tools format did the job and maybe my problem lays with Tomtom, it worked before though so I just dont understand it.
Thanks for your reply. I shall have to try that program.

I had some problems with a 4gig sd card showing as write protected like yours.
I solved it by putting a folded piece of the thin backing film from a screen protector on top of the sd card when I put it in the reader.
The write protection is a small contact inside the reader and it just needed this extra packing to put a bit of pressure on the contact to make a connection.
after doing that for a week it now does not need the film so I assume that the contacts inside the reader were either a bit dirty or had some sort of coating that has now worn off.
Worth a try ??

Thanks, I really dont think its the card reader though as it doesnt work on my laptops SD slot either, and when I try to take the files for Tomtom over via Activesync it does the same thing. Installing Cab files is fine though. Im starting to think its a TomTom problem, which is odd as it worked before on my old card, both Sandisk Ultra II.

Thanks, I really dont think its the card reader though as it doesnt work on my laptops SD slot either, and when I try to take the files for Tomtom over via Activesync it does the same thing. Installing Cab files is fine though. Im starting to think its a TomTom problem, which is odd as it worked before on my old card, both Sandisk Ultra II.

Wizard suddenly doesn't see miniSD card

Today I noticed that the 2GB SD card in my Wizard is not being detected at all. So I tried re-flashing it, and there was no change.
On the About screen, it says "Expansion slot: In use", I'm not sure if this refers to the SD card slot or not. In the Memory screen, it says that there is no SD card installed. If the backlight is off, and I put the SD card in, the backlight will suddenly turn on.
Unfortunately, I don't have a miniSD card reader to see if my computer can pick it up. But is there anything I could try to get the Wizard to read the SD card, before I go out and buy a new one?

did you figure this out? i have the same issue

miniSD card woes
Fellas,
Since one of you mentioned that you don't have an external miniSD reader for your PC, I would recommend trying out Pocket Mechanic Professional. This PPC software will diagnose/format your miniSD cards in your phone.
One very important notice...make sure that your phone doesn't go to sleep while Pocket Mechanic Pro is formatting your miniSD card. If this happens, then the only way to revive your miniSD card would be to format it using your PC...trust me, I learned the hard way.
By the way...this software is not freeware, but I believe you can use the trial for 30 days or so.
Good luck!
Here is the link:
http://classic.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?associateid=373&id=12178

Same Problem
I had the same problem, my 2gb sandisk would not read on my cingular 8125 OR my computer... So I called Sandisk and told them what was going on. They ask you to do a ton of different things with you computer and your phone... At the end of it all they said they would send me a new one. I was very excited because I did not register it and I did not have any of the paper work. They have a kick butt customer service hot line

Same Prob. part 2
I forgot to add once I got the new card everything worked just fine.

sd card question

ok this is kind of wierd but i bought my wizard from a friend. she formated the card to get all the stuff off. and by the time it gets into my hands it doesnt work anymore. the sd cards in the slot and my phone doesnt know its there, also activesync doesnt know its there. so does any one know if there is anything i can do to fix this myself?????? some program or mod?????
but now that i think about it another question comes to mind. is it that card or my phone just f-ed up have know clue????
ok i just read some before this one and my sd is real and its in a 8125 if that helps

The card probably just needs to be reformatted again. The easiest way would be to put it in a card reader and reformat it with your computer. Formatting it with a digital camera sometimes works too if you don't have a card reader.

great idea but each time i put the sd card in something i doesnt act right, for example in my wii, "cant read sd card" in my camra, without it i loads find but when i put it in the on light just comes on, the screen doesnt even come up lol, i put it in my printer/fax it said "error error" with the light flashing im not giving the up on it 10 bucks for a 2gb come on who else does that. anyway i'm also sry for post in the forum didnt see the accessories link, i got so happy to find this place i forgot forum manners.

Sounds like the only thing you have left to try is the card reader. If you don't have one, the easiest thing you can try is to download and install on your phone WM5 Storage, you can get it here - http://www.freewareppc.com/communication/wm5torage.shtml. Then activate it before you connect your phone to the usb cable and it will detect it as a mass storage device and allow you to format it again, as long as the cards not bad.

Was it formatted on an 'oldish' PC or laptop because it may have been formatted to the wrong spec as anything above 1Gb needs a version 2.0 formatter.
Browse the SD manufacturers sites for an SD format utilty (Toshiba, Sandisk, etc) they can sometimes recover them.

wow thank i dont have one but i was just going to take it to office depot and ask if they can do it for me but that cool

xeno1 said:
Sounds like the only thing you have left to try is the card reader. If you don't have one, the easiest thing you can try is to download and install on your phone WM5 Storage, you can get it here - http://www.freewareppc.com/communication/wm5torage.shtml. Then activate it before you connect your phone to the usb cable and it will detect it as a mass storage device and allow you to format it again, as long as the cards not bad.
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Thanks for the tip! I thought that my sd card slot on my phone was jacked up. It worked for me!

Mini Sd card not recognized in my wizard

hi guys your forum is great cant stop reading.But i have an issue i recently bought an 4gb mini sd card for my phone the card works but is like it works when it feels like if i put it in and wait for a while or just randomly turn the phone off and on it will work i format it using my card reader through windows on fat32 and all the thing is it works but i should not have to be going through all of this for the sd card to work.
My next problem is i recently upgraded to SNN Edition Version 3.0 LITE and i have to say i love it but before my phone could detect my sd card and from i did i upgrade its not detecting my card at all to be on the safe side i took out the card before the upgrade and now its not detceting at all please can any one help me is there a patch i can use or something HELP!!

i think try to format via fat16 option. i had earlier 2gb kingston card sdmini after formatting it works welll

i was doing some reading and i was told that 2gb is the highest for formating with fat16 i have a 4gb card so this cant work for me a even look in properties and the only option is fat32.any body else as any more in puts.

4GB cards are almost exclusively multilayer, and cannot be read by the Wizard's card reader. You are basically limited to 2GB, and it should be formatted as FAT, not FAT32, as was already noted. If there's a 4GB model that's single layer, that's great, but I don't know about it. (...not saying I'm the definitive authority, either...)

which program can i use in windows to format the card in FAT and not FAT32 and as i said before the phone could read the card before i did the upgrade the only thing its takes a while for the phone too detect the SD card and thats in FAT32 format but i will try the FAT format.

from my experience you can't put ANY 4gb minisd card into the wizard and have it work correctly since it uses double buffering which the wizard doesn't support.
you have 2 options.. either buy a 2gb one.. or format only half of the card in FAT ...as myrddin said.. this might use only 1 buffer..
if that doesn't work, you can look for a program which blocks clusters and block half of the clusters on the card. that would certainly work but you won't be able to get 4gb out of that card ever again.
i'd go with the first option.. 2gb cards aren't that expensive nowadays.

well guys i bought the sd card for my phone and i research before buying it and it caused work so there must be a way for this to work even if i have to split it in 2 partitions but i am at work now so when i get home i will work on it (good thing i bought that card reader) lol but i will give you guys an update soon i plan to format the card in fat16 all 4gb if that dont work i am going to split the partition in 2 but i would love a single partition but what ever works.

I have a 2gb SD Card...
Hey guys... i have a 2gb kingston card (micro SD with adaptor to miniSD), but i have the exact same problem... my wizard just stopped reading the card! Sometimes it reads, but suddenly wizard stops, i have to make a soft reset and.... the card is gone... i formated it to fat32 and fat... and it still doesn't work... any idea? thanks

nir36 said:
from my experience you can't put ANY 4gb minisd card into the wizard and have it work correctly since it uses double buffering which the wizard doesn't support.
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Correct-o-mundo.
Another common problem (related more to card readers than just to Wizards) is that the reader contacts (and even the card contacts) can become worn, dirty, or corroded. Try removing the card and battery, and get in there with a VERY bright light, a magnifying glass, and some cotton swabs dipped in isopropyl. Clean the metal contacts on both card and Wizard. Be careful not to soak the chip. Damp, not wet. Soak the chip and you WILL be buying a new one soon.
Let things dry COMPLETELY before trying anything, or you'll be sorry.

sd card is not vissible
hi all i have 1gb memory card it is not visible in all device i tried in a cam mobile and computer can any give me a idea to use