I just restarted my phone and when it boots up I get an sd card icon in the upper left with an exclamation mark on it. When I bring up the notifications it says the sd card may be damaged and might have to format it again. I have removed the card, formatted it and ran chkdsk on it from windows. I put it back in and I am getting the same error message. Any ideas what is happening?
do you have an adapter for it so you can try it in a pc? It might be fried, but if you can get it to work on a pc, there may be another problem.
Yes. That is how I was able to format and perform the chkdsk. I did all of those from windows. I copied the data back to it and did the chkdsk again and no errors were found. Then I put it back in the phone and powered it up and got the same message.
Oops, sorry, I must not have read your entire post.
Have you partitioned it with an ext partition? You could try to repartition the card from Recovery Console, but I have had better luck repartitioning in Windows using Paragon Partition Manager.
this happened on my g1. a fresh wipe fixed it.
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I don't know when did this started happening actually, I flashed a number of roms in the past couple of days, but I can't get rid of this stupid notification and its really driving me crazy!
When I mount my SD card so I can transfer files from PC and the unmount I get the error "Damaged SD Card - SD card damaged you may have to reformat it"
The thing is reformatting does not solve it, and when I have this notification nothing that accesses the card works (music, photos, astro..)
I tried reflashing my rom again which made the error go away for a while but after some mount-unmount I have it again!
I have a non-branded HTC magic (32A) with Cyanogen 4.2.3 and Enoch theme and RA's recovery image and NO apps2sd
Any help?
Thanks
fixed it
Okay I got it to go away, I formatted from the recovery menu (fat32 only)
and I turned off the swap file and uninstalled the swapper app.
No problems so far!
i've found that rebooting the phone makes the sd card damaged error message go away
and that rebooting my pc actually solved the problem of the pc not seeing the sdcard
but that may just be temporary, i dont know
Strange SD Card!
When I mounted my SD Card I was receiving an error and was asked to Scan or Continue. I chose scan and then it looks like it mounted fine. I can view all the folders and files but if I try to copy any files to the card or try to create a folder I get an error saying the Drive is not available and it is no longer mounted. I put the card in a card reader and I received the Scan option again and I scanned it to fix any errors but it doesn't find any. I then can copy, delete and modify anything on the card. I put the card back in the phone and mount the card. No issues until I try to copy, delete or modify and it unmounts and will not work. I have the original T-Mobile Rom and I have not rooted it.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Hi guys. I got a problem with my SD card after I recorded a video on my Nexus One (rom from Paul for very first Froyo over my rooted Nexus). I tried to to mount the SD card to my computer, but after clicking on the mounting button, the card appeared to have something wrong and displayed the warning message "SD Card blank or has unsupported filesystem". I could not access to the data on the card. I cared about my data so I tried to get the card out and used a card reader to read the content of the card from my Windows machine, but it seemed that Windows could not recognized the card. I thought the card was spoiled. I tried to save the card anyhow by trying to format it since I had the backup data on my computer already. Because I could not see the card on my Windows, I could not format it. I tried to format it on my N1, but after clicking on the format button, nothing happened. It seemed that my SD card was really spoiled.
But actually, I found a way that could help to save the SD card for my case. My solution is to try to partition the SD card using the ultility from my Recover section (I am using RA for nexus 1.7.0). The card after partitioning seems to work ok again. So I think the problem for my case is that the recording application already overwrote some data to the partition table on the card and that made my card inaccessible. Partioning the card again will help in this case but about the existing data on the card, I am not quite sure if it is still there. For my case, it's all gone.
Just a little experience to share ...
Hope this solution helps! Am doing the recovery thing now...
hi
i have got the exact same problem... samsung galaxy s with a 32gb micro sd... says unsupported file system and does not format it... windows cant see it in the memory card reader... could u please help me out...
thanks man !!
psychopython said:
i have got the exact same problem... samsung galaxy s with a 32gb micro sd... says unsupported file system and does not format it... windows cant see it in the memory card reader... could u please help me out...
thanks man !!
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You can try to partition your card on an Android phone with RA 1.7.0 (or newer) installed. You can have a look at following page which is about RA for nexus v1.9.0 alpha:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=611829
Good luck.
thanks man !
will give it a try... i first have to figure out how to get my phone into recovery mode. the three button method does not work for me.
psychopython said:
thanks man !
will give it a try... i first have to figure out how to get my phone into recovery mode. the three button method does not work for me.
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whoa whoa if you have a galaxy s, do NOT flash the one he linked to. that is for the nexus one only. if you need to partition in windows, try plugging in the card to a reader and opening disk management (type "disk management" w/o quotes after pressing the windows key)
right click the card and hit format
Check your data before formatting it may not be corrupt
I had the same problem, rather than format the card straight away, I mounted it in ra recovery so that it was accessible over usb, then copied off all my data before formatting the card.
in a sudden my x10 cant detect my SD card, it show a messege saying that " damage SD card".
i cant access to the file in my card reader or my PC, but however, when i check it in MiniTool Partition Wizard, i can see my SD card contect.
how can i restore the card content so that i make a copy to my PC?
Have you reformatted it and tried?
minjiet said:
in a sudden my x10 cant detect my SD card, it show a messege saying that " damage SD card".
i cant access to the file in my card reader or my PC, but however, when i check it in MiniTool Partition Wizard, i can see my SD card contect.
how can i restore the card content so that i make a copy to my PC?
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Windows 7 has a repair disk option that worked for me when I damaged my SD card during rooting.
XperiaX10iUser said:
Have you reformatted it and tried?
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there's no point if i just formatted the disk, all my files inside will be gone.
i want those data to be kept.
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Windows 7 has a repair disk option that worked for me when I damaged my SD card during rooting.
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ok, will get to it when i back home, now at office which uses vista.
Just reboot the phone, it always work for me.
Unmount the sd card from settings, turn off your phone, take out the battery and sd card then put them all back, turn on. It works for me
Alternatively you can try a media card reader and copy all the data off it. It may or may not work depending how damaged it is. If it is damaged that is.
You should make sure the card is unmounted before you turn off USB connectivity. That can cause this.
It will try to repair it however, somtimes it is unsuccessful.
Just take mine as the last option you can think.
Get some partition stuff, Acronis DiskDirector works well, I used a lot with damaged server harddisk.
Just DELETE it. (not wipe!)
and Recover it. If it was about master record fails which it's likely, it should be recovered in a few sec.
If it still not work, then grab some undelete, file recovery to recover your remaining stuff. I don't suggest it anyway though someone claim that it worked well, since those raw-based recovery only work with some general file. (doc,excel, blah blah)
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.
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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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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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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
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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.