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Fix Micro SD Card After Failure In Windows 7 Free

After trying a Sandisk Class 6 Micro SD card in my Focus and having it fail after the first reset I decided to look for some software to fix the card and use it in my laptop. I did a Google for partition software and found "EASEUS" and they offer their 'Partition Master Home Addition" Free to home users. I downloaded it to try and I was absoloutely amazed. This is the best software I have ever saw for working with Windows partitions and it supports all known types of removeable storage. It wiped the Micro SD card clean and repartitioned it in a very short time including formatting it in FAT32.

I downloaded this but not sure how to use it. How can I find the failed MicroSD if the computer cannot read it?

After my card failed in the Focus I put it back in the reader on my desktop and it showed the card as a 200 Meg card but it did see it. I tried to format it with windows but it couldn't do it. Try putting the card in you reader and open the EASUS software and let me know if it can see the card. I guess the reason my computer could see the card might be because I have modified my register to load files and look at the storage on the Focus. The mod I used on the registry is the one that has been posted to several of the forums and it does work.

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Formatting an SD Card from a Windows Phone requires the card to be sent the "Force Erase" command (SD Card Simplified spec (pdf) Section 4.3.7.3). This would require support at the driver level and support by the SD reader as well - so it is unlikely that this software will work.
If you need to erase an Windows Phone 7 SD Card, hard reset the phone (although this will create a new lock on the card) or find a friend with a Nokia

Not saying it would work in this case, but I recently built a new Game PC and had lots of permmisions issues with several HDs, they were not even visible in Explorer, but you could see them in the Storage Manager, allowing me to do some format work and making them visible to the entire system.

The software has no problem deleting a pass word protected partition. When I put the card in the reader it was showing a 200 Meg partition that it could see and a hidden partition that It didn't show. It told me the hidden partition was pass word protected and then gave me the choice of formatting the 200 Meg partition or the entire card. I chose the entire card and then chose FAT 32 and it deleted every thing on the card and when it finished the card had 31.2 GB of space, the same thing it had before it was put in the Focus. Not sure how it done it but it did.

capman231 said:
After my card failed in the Focus I put it back in the reader on my desktop and it showed the card as a 200 Meg card but it did see it. I tried to format it with windows but it couldn't do it. Try putting the card in you reader and open the EASUS software and let me know if it can see the card. I guess the reason my computer could see the card might be because I have modified my register to load files and look at the storage on the Focus. The mod I used on the registry is the one that has been posted to several of the forums and it does work.
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Can you post up where I can download the mod for the registry?
Edit: Nevermind, got it thanks

Unless I found the wrong registry hack (I used the one listed at MobileTechWorld for using the phone as a mass storage device), this whole process was garbage. Didn't make the card readable, and this "best software" couldn't see it.

EASEUS did not work for me
Downloaded the partition manager software. After the format, it displayed an error message and exited. My microSD card is still not formatted right.

Nokia did it for me
I have an old E71 that revived my card..

steeldragonnyc said:
I have an old E71 that revived my card..
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Wow! Funny thing is, that's not even full-on Symbian, it's S60. Because of your post, I dug my old Nokia N75 flip phone (which, similarly, runs S60) out of the retired phones drawer. It reads the Sandisk 16c4 from my Focus, and prompts to format it.
So, yeah, confirmed that any old phone running S60 can format a card from WP7. Awesome!

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confirmed that any old phone running S60 can format a card from WP7. Awesome!
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Lucky you!

I just downloaded this software and it does NOT see my microSD card. I have a Kingston 8GB C4 I want to reformat and ck speeds for posting.
If this software really works, then provide actual instructions in this thread to make it work.

[Q] Dumb CM7 Rooting problem

Hi, I have a nook color and an 8gb SD card. I've followed the posts to get winimage to write the generic-sdcard-v1.3.img written to my card and installed on my nook. However, when I shutdown the nook and put the SD back in my PC, there is no \Boot partition, and windows(xp) says the card is not formatted. What on earth am I doing wrong??
Thanks.
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Put it back in the Nook after you have booted into CM7 and format it with the Nook. If you have a camera that takes micro SDHC cards you can probably format it with that as well but will probably want to delete any folders the camera creates later.

Well of course! How stupid am I?? Jeesh! THanks.

OK maybe I'm just missing something big.
After I install the SD card in the Nook with the CM7 upadate on it, the SDCard is modified such that when I remove it, the PC no longer recognizes the format. I get the card in my list of drives, but when selected it says "not formatted" If I choose format, it wipes the card and I can't boot to CM7 from it any more. I can't find a format option on the Bare CM7 image - just erase SD card -which still leaves it in a format that the PC can'd read to put the gapps on.
help??

Logical thinking, dr. wambo.
you have drive C which you install Windows OS on it, and then you format it, what do you expect?
In your case, "boot" MUST be there in order to work, if you format the card, it's gone for good. Question is why you format it after creating it?

votinh said:
Logical thinking, dr. wambo.
you have drive C which you install Windows OS on it, and then you format it, what do you expect?
In your case, "boot" MUST be there in order to work, if you format the card, it's gone for good. Question is why you format it after creating it?
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Understood. My issue is that after I put the SD card into the Nook and boot the nook, it apparently reformats the SD card such that when I put it back in the PC, I can SEE that the card exists, but no files on it. If I check properties, it shows no free space on the disk (and none used for that matter.) So, I am unable to copy the gapps-gb-20110613-signed.zip file to the SD and restart the nook.
See?

A simple question, do you see the "boot" when your plug the card into your PC (running Windows)?

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A simple question, do you see the "boot" when your plug the card into your PC (running Windows)?
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I do not. Windows explorer shows an SD card in the list, but when selected, it says the card is not formatted.
Card seems to boot fine in the Nook. I must be doing something really dumb. I was able to install honyecomb successfully using this card, but wanted the functionality of CM7. Darn, this just shouldn't be that hard.

Wait, if the card still "seems to boot fine in the Nook" then it means the "boot" is still there, it just Windows not seeing it.
On PC side, try to insertion and removal a few times and see what happens.
If completely nothing, switch to other Windows PC OR if you have the USB-SD adapter, use it.

votinh said:
Wait, if the card still "seems to boot fine in the Nook" then it means the "boot" is still there, it just Windows not seeing it.
On PC side, try to insertion and removal a few times and see what happens.
If completely nothing, switch to other Windows PC OR if you have the USB-SD adapter, use it.
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I should mention that the nook boots fine off the card provided I don't Format it in the Windows box.
Have removed and reinserted the card multiple times into the Win (xp) box. No Joy. Tried a different machine and got exactly the same results.
This just can't be that hard!!

Are you using Windows PC or Linux?
Worst case, reinstall

Windows PC running. XP sp2. ADDITIONAL NOTE. After I winimage the SD card with the generic image, I do indeed have a \root partition. Once I insert it in the Nook and let it boot, shutdown, and I reboot, CM7 is installed and running from the card, but when I put it in the PC, the \root partition is no longer there.

Additional info. I've now tried this on 2 different SD cards and they both do the same thing.

Not sure if you're still having problems, but it's normal for Windows not to be able read the entire SD card after it's been imaged for CM7. There are I believe 4 partitions and it will generally only see the 1st (/boot). Additionally, it will sometimes only read correctly when using a USB card reader, rather than putting the uSD card into a built-in card reader in your PC (not sure why). Hope this helps.

Interesting...perhaps that's the problem. I'm using the internal SD reader on my laptop. I'll run out and get a USB reader and see if that helps.
THanks.
D

Problematic MicroSD Card

Been experiencing issues with an SD card. this is an 8GB that I was using. I normally remove the SD card from my phone and attach it to the adapter toread from the laptop's SD card reader. one of the times I did this, Windows popped up saying I needed to format the device. I put the card back into my phone, and saw that the SD card came up blank.
I put the card back into my computer and ran PhotoRec to see if I could pull any data off of it...it spit out 3000 something text files all with 2 lines each of garbled characters. I tried using TestDisk (program that comes with PhotoRec), and it says there are no Partitions on the card. I tried to format using the command line formatter, but the filesystem now shows up as RAW. I tried using the official SD Formatter tool, and it says my device is Write Protected (when it is clearly not).
I'm about lost on what to do next, as nothing seems to be working. is there something I'm missing, or am I dealing with a completely dead card?

Try the thread in the stickies right above this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1355528

I already tried this, but thanks for the suggestion. The problem isn't with syncing data, but moreso with not being able to properly repartition the card
At least, that's what I believe the problem would be.

toastyc12 said:
I already tried this, but thanks for the suggestion. The problem isn't with syncing data, but moreso with not being able to properly repartition the card
At least, that's what I believe the problem would be.
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Thought you might try his methods on recovering your data.

I understand. Recovering also wasn't a big issue, as I keep backups of my data every so often. My main major loss is the use of this card.

[Q] S5 Says Blank SD Card After Partitioning on Mac

The other day I partitioned my 32gb SD card on a Mac and formatted it as ntfs I believe so I could put OS X on it. I got home, wiped and reformatted it to FAT32 and transferred all my files back onto it so I could use it with my phone again. Except when I inserted it, it said that the card is blank or has an unsupported filesystem. So I reformatted it again using windows with no success, then using the official sd card formatter v 4.0. Still getting the blank sd card error. After many more wipes/reformats using exFAT and FAT32, still nothing. I even tried erasing and reformatting in a mac again, but nothing seems to work. However every computer I've tried recognizes both the card and all the data stored on it, my phone just doesn't seem to be able to read it. Any suggestions? Am I missing something very obvious? I've also tried both quick and full formats to no avail.

ocean's_1 said:
The other day I partitioned my 32gb SD card on a Mac and formatted it as ntfs I believe so I could put OS X on it. I got home, wiped and reformatted it to FAT32 and transferred all my files back onto it so I could use it with my phone again. Except when I inserted it, it said that the card is blank or has an unsupported filesystem. So I reformatted it again using windows with no success, then using the official sd card formatter v 4.0. Still getting the blank sd card error. After many more wipes/reformats using exFAT and FAT32, still nothing. I even tried erasing and reformatting in a mac again, but nothing seems to work. However every computer I've tried recognizes both the card and all the data stored on it, my phone just doesn't seem to be able to read it. Any suggestions? Am I missing something very obvious? I've also tried both quick and full formats to no avail.
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Please use paragraphs. That is too hard to read and I had to quit halfway through your post.
You want a Fat32 filesystem. Did you check in the settings menu to confirm that the card was mounted? Try a different card in the phone? Try formatting this card in the phone?
Just a matter of spotting a pattern in the differemt combinations.
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fffft said:
Please use paragraphs. That is too hard to read and I had to quit halfway through your post.
You want a Fat32 filesystem. Did you check in the settings menu to confirm that the card was mounted? Try a different card in the phone? Try formatting this card in the phone?
Just a matter of spotting a pattern in the differemt combinations.
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Yep. I would insert the card, get the error, then format it in my phone, still nothing. I tried restarting with card in, out, put the card in while the phone is off, etc. I know the full format on windows should erase everything from the card including partitions, but I'm wondering if some little bit of data from the Mac somehow stays stuck on the card through that.
Oh and I can click on "mount sd card" an infinite amount of times, it just gives me the error and unmounts.

We don't have enough information. Post the exact error you see, verbatim. And it would help immensely if you try the steps I suggested in my last post.

I've tried all that stuff repeatedly I guess I'm getting a bit frustrated with this thing and wasn't clear. And the exact error is "Blank SD Card - SD Card is Blank or has Unsupported Filesystem". I'm worried that my inexperience with macs killed my card

ocean's_1 said:
I've tried all that stuff repeatedly I guess I'm getting a bit frustrated with this thing and wasn't clear. And the exact error is "Blank SD Card - SD Card is Blank or has Unsupported Filesystem". I'm worried that my inexperience with macs killed my card
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I'm sure that it is frustrating.
However you won't get closer to a solution unless you troubleshoot it in a methodical manner. Find out if another S5 recognizes the card. Then format it in your phone, reboot and see if that makea a difference.
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The Partition Problem
Maybe the Phone just detects the Blank Partition!
Try saving some Files through your Phone to the SD Card.
Android KitKat does not stop any Reading Access!
After that -- Tell me what happened.
Try the same thing with Another Phone like the Galaxy Note 3.
If it just makes issues on the S5, then it is an Internal Galaxy S5 Problem.

SD Card...

I have had a 64Gb sd card from the beginning with my Note 3 but for some strange reason now it says it's only a 64Mb card and won't let me save anymore to it. I tried to clean it up and copy all to my laptop but it wouldn't let me copy the twrp.img file. I was going to re-format it on my laptop but didn't because it only offered me a 15Mb formatting. Anyone else have issues with their SD Card? Any advice would be helpful.
Thanks,
GoNavyMike

Native Windows formatting seems to be fussy when it finds pre-existing formatting information on SD cards especially if they are not recognized as having a Windows heritage; in many of those cases it will simply honor the information it finds, offering to format only the first partition rather than re-writing the partition table.
If I have a SDcard which has previously been partitioned, has a non-Windows MBR on it, or any strange partition ID values, I typically will write zeros to the beginning of the raw device before letting windows take a whack at formatting it.
e.g. in Linux/Unix (in a root shell)
# dd bs=512 count=16384 if=/dev/zero of=your-raw-device-name
You need to be extremely careful verifying the raw device name is really and truly the SD card and not (say) your primary boot media. You don't want to write zeros to your boot media!
For example, after plugging in an SD Card to a Linux machine (or transferring control of the USB device to a Linux guest Virtual Machine), I will usually do something like:
# dmesg | tail -20
to find out that the recently attached raw devices is /dev/sdc or /dev/hdb or similar.
On your phone, the SD Card raw device is probably /dev/block/mmcblk1 (note "1", NOT ZERO) BE CAREFUL!
It goes without saying that you should back up whatever you want saved off your SD card to begin with.
Now, in terms of *why* this happened, that's a bit of a mystery. Did you use this card with the "samsung_unlock_n3" method? If so, that would have written a more advanced partitioning format onto the card called "UEFI GPT". There is still a MBR in this case, but it is called a "protective MBR" as it has information in it that would prevent primitive OSes ( like Windows, ) from smashing the GPT table that follows.
But even that would have put information on the card that indicated a total size of 32GB, not 64 MB.
If you want to figure out what happened, you can look at the SD card (raw device) under linux using "fdisk" - if you see a partition type such as 'ee' (EFI GPT), then somehow a GPT partition table got written to the device. If that is the case, using a more modern tool that knows about GPT is necessary. Something like (Linux) "parted" or "gparted".
All of these sorts of things can in principle be accomplished under windows, but mostly by finding 3rd party utility programs . The open source GParted project uses a bootable mini-linux distro to do this.
good luck

GoNavyMike said:
I have had a 64Gb sd card from the beginning with my Note 3 but for some strange reason now it says it's only a 64Mb card and won't let me save anymore to it. I tried to clean it up and copy all to my laptop but it wouldn't let me copy the twrp.img file. I was going to re-format it on my laptop but didn't because it only offered me a 15Mb formatting. Anyone else have issues with their SD Card? Any advice would be helpful.
Thanks,
GoNavyMike
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It happened to me also. Two times, with brand new SD cards. I took them back to where I bought them and exchanged them.
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GoNavyMike said:
I have had a 64Gb sd card from the beginning with my Note 3 but for some strange reason now it says it's only a 64Mb card and won't let me save anymore to it. I tried to clean it up and copy all to my laptop but it wouldn't let me copy the twrp.img file. I was going to re-format it on my laptop but didn't because it only offered me a 15Mb formatting. Anyone else have issues with their SD Card? Any advice would be helpful.
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Almost the exact thing happened to me. My 32gb card registered as 59mb. I believe this happened when unlocking the boot loader or letting my first run of TWRP do as it asked. The solution for me was to reformat the sd card from my vzw note 2. I lost all my previously stored contents, but reclaimed my sd card's storage. I only hope your solution is as simple. Good luck. (edit: meant to type VZW Note 3)

xenoxphse said:
Almost the exact thing happened to me. My 32gb card registered as 59mb. I believe this happened when unlocking the boot loader or letting my first run of TWRP do as it asked. The solution for me was to reformat the sd card from my vzw note 2. I lost all my previously stored contents, but reclaimed my sd card's storage. I only hope your solution is as simple. Good luck.
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The same thing happened to me. I had to reformat on my computer. It was a simple fix thankfully.
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I tried that too but it didn't work. I had a 16 gig memory card and it formatted it down to 16 megabytes, 18 megabytes I'm not sure.. But the computer wouldn't not reformat it.
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I have the same problem. In the last 2 weeks I have lost 2 sd cards. Without using them, I get a pop up saying DAMAGED SD CARD. Reformat and lost all data. I have not had this problem before but started after I unlocked the the boot loader.
Wonder if those unlock files are active in the root directory.