So i read on droidxforums.com that i can that i could use my internal memory for my music by using root explorer to move it to a music directory within /system. and an app called Astro Player I tried just moving one album to the /system. when i opened Astroplayer it automatically read all the rest of my music. so i figured i would take my music off the SD completely. after deleting it it still showed up within Astro. however the Directory what gone from SD. soi wasnt sure if there were still some reminisce or something left.
So i figured i could copy all my important info to my pc and format the SD and format. I inserted the SD directly to my pc via an adapter and tried to format. It failed to complete. so i tried putting it into my phone and tring that way.
I now get a pop op that says i need to format before i can use it. I click to format and it tells me there is no disc.
did i just kill the sd card? is there any way of formatting and getting it back to normal?
any advice is appreciated. thank you so much.....
What are you trying to format it with on the pc? If you are on linux i would recommend giving gparted a try. It has always worked for me. Make sure you format it to FAT...
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you likely formatted it to NTFS in windows, reformat it again to FAT, and make sure it's fully seated in the slot of your phone.
Formatting an SD card won't break it.
Problem Fixed!
No i was trying to format it Fat32 via windows. But i was trying to do a "quick format"
Formated without "quick format" selected. Took about an hour. but everything is back to normal.
Thanks for the help you guys.
Lucky SOB. I had the same issue, and it was a bad SD card. I had the same problem, basically; started copying my music to SD card on the phone, phone froze and xfer hung in Windows at about 15% of the card filled, did a battery pull and tried doing a full format (fat32 of course, which is the default for memory cards in any version of Windows, by the way; only way you get NTFS is if you manually select it, or the card was already NTFC) and it hung at about 15% of the way through. I pulled the 8GB micro SDHC card from my HTC Touch Pro, did a full format on my laptop no problems, put it in my Droid X and filled it, no problems. I'm waiting for a call from Costco as to when I can get the memory card swapped.
@ixobelle: formatting an SD card when it's bad can definitely "break" it (to be more precise, 'expose the broken parts')
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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)
I have a MyTouch 4G rooted, with Ice Glacier 1.1.6 and I was trying to remove some files from my SD card and when i eject my phone, all the files i deleted appeared back onto the sd card. I tried everything to fix this problem. When i tried to format the card using a card reader, i get an error saying format wasnt able to be complete. i tried error checking as well. i am not able to add files to the sd card too. does anybody know what is going on??
thanks!
Try formatting it thru the phone.
Settings -> Storage -> Format SD Cards
just tried that, did not work. after i click format, the sd card would get mounted again and everything is still on the sd card..
this is what i have noticed, i can delete files using astro and it will stay off until i unmount it and mount it again. thats when the files appear back on the sd card.
Hmm... can you open the files on your PC?
yeah i can open files on my PC. this is weird. when i take pics, itll save onto the sd card but will be gone when i unmount or connect my phone to the computer so i can see the files on the sd card
I've heard of this once before. Solution was to put the sd card into an adapter and format with a camera.
format with a camera? meaning to plug this sd card in a digital camera and plug the camera into the pc then format?
No, format through the cameras menu options.
whenever i tried to turn on my camera with this messed up sd card in there, the camera doesnt even want to boot up....any other suggestions??
Sorry, thats all I got.
Sounds like a bad disk. Run a CHKDSK /f from your pc.
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chkdsk didnt work. at the end of the process, it says "disk error occurred during the writing of the file allocation" ??
It appears you need to go shopping. However, the SD card should be replaceable under warranty, unless our warranties specifically exclude the card. Call your local T-Mobile dealer and see if they'll replace it.
Yeah I think its time for a larger memory card anyway. So all I have to do is copy everything from my old memory card onto the new one that I will get then stick it in my phone right?
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So about a week ago I downloaded new version of icecream tosti's ICS rom (v0.6) and booted into CWM to mount my sd card and move the zip file over. I noticed that it was taking longer time to move the file than it usually does but I let the process finish. I unmounted the card and went to install the zip from sd card but couldn't find it. I tried to move the file again and again but couldn't get it to copy the file onto the sd card. I tried moving files from the sd card onto the computer but that was not possible either. It wouldn't show me errors and complete the moving process but it actually didn't move anything. I thought there was something wrong with the sd card so I tried formatting it... no success!
I have used easues partition manager, mini tool partition manager, hp sd card utility, panasoic sd card formatter, tried formatting it through windows native options, used disk management, even tried formatting it through CWM but i kept on getting the same error, can't format. I was placing the micro sd card in a usb card reader and sd card reader in order to format it through computer. I have also tried using different computers but that didn't solve the issue. The problem is that every time I try to install a rom it reverts back to an older revision of the rom with old settings that I set before. It seems to me some how the sd card is locked in a previous state and it is write protected and won't let me format it.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can solve my problem or does this mean the sd card is gone and I have to buy a new one?
I have exactly the same problem after using NexusHD2-ICS-4.0.3-CM9 V1.3. It seems this sd card was frozen, nothing on it can be changed. If I copy a file to it on computer, it shows copy successful, but that file cannot be read, and if refresh it shows nothing have changed in the SD card.
Anyone have any idea about this?
I have three broken micro sd cards now, two from WP7 and this one from ICS.
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I have exactly the same problem after using NexusHD2-ICS-4.0.3-CM9 V1.3. It seems this sd card was frozen, nothing on it can be changed. If I copy a file to it on computer, it shows copy successful, but that file cannot be read, and if refresh it shows nothing have changed in the SD card.
Anyone have any idea about this?
I have three broken micro sd cards now, two from WP7 and this one from ICS.
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I waited a couple of weeks for someone to answer on this forum and tried all methods possible to format the sd card or revive it somehow but no luck so just recently purchased a new sandisk class 4 sd card hopefully this one doesn't go bad either. I just wish I knew why it was happening so I don't repeat the process again and end up damaging the card.
Have you tried to format with MAGLDR and after it on windows 7 pc ?
I did that, also followed this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1283232
Contents on this sd card just refuse to change.
is there a solution to this coz im having the same problem and cant find a way to fix this
you can do it by this software's :
HDD Low Level Format Tool
MiniTool Partition Wizard
EASEUS Partition Master
Partition Wizard Home Edition
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but i dont know how create swap and ext4 partitions on sd .
This happen because you formatted the card on the phone. I never recommend to format on the phone the cards but on PC. Try the application I posted on computer with FAT32 in 32768 unit size.
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.
Hi,
I want to format a micro sd card initially formatted with the and used on my Axon 7. Using the smartphone "application", the sd card disappears when it reaches the 20%. If I try to remove the sd from the smartphone and format with my computer (I try with gparted on ubuntu and with build-in + EaseUs window applications), my computer returns an error (impossible to complete the operation, etc.).
Anyway, the micro SD works correctly. I can read, write, and delete files on it without any problem.
Did the same thing happen to you too? Have you a solution?
youngz89 said:
Hi,
I want to format a micro sd card initially formatted with the and used on my Axon 7. Using the smartphone "application", the sd card disappears when it reaches the 20%. If I try to remove the sd from the smartphone and format with my computer (I try with gparted on ubuntu and with build-in + EaseUs window applications), my computer returns an error (impossible to complete the operation, etc.).
Anyway, the micro SD works correctly. I can read, write, and delete files on it without any problem.
Did the same thing happen to you too? Have you a solution?
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You sure you can write to all of it? SD cards become read-only after a bunch of write ops. Hapoened to me on 2 SD cards already. When you try to format it, it'll just return an error or stall somewhere