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How do i format Storage card

Like title say id like to find out how do i format my MicroSD card on my phone and/or computer while connected to phone.
thanks for help

i want to bring this topic to front once more and for the last time. the deal is my card is corrupted so i have to format it- deleting broken files dont help.
any ideas?

Get a program that does it for you like Resco Explorer. An alternative (which you don't seem to want) is to insert the card into a card reader connected to a computer and format that way in "My Computer."

i dont have a card reader and resco explorer is payable isnt it? thanks for your answer

bbezja1 said:
i dont have a card reader and resco explorer is payable isnt it? thanks for your answer
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"cant format selected storage card. check if card is unlocked." in Resco when i press format. everything is unloaded, i tried to format the moment i put the card in... any ideas?

I have the same problem, i can still use the files on my card, but cant remove/format them or add any new files. for some reason my card is write protected, though it doesnt have a physical switch. For some reason there is a software lock that is activated by unkown reasons, it happend to mine by disrupting file synchronising by pulling the cable out of the phone... (or at least that is what i think.
I have searched the internet for many hours, i have read about people with the same problem. only solution is: return it to the point where you bought it and use your warrenty, I believe it is like 3 years. I cant do it because i threw away the receipt. So only option left for me is buy a new card... they arent that expensive anyway these days....
So if someone does know a solution please let me know, but I dont think there is any...
Teun
PS. i have sandisk 8gb

You two have 2 options:
1. Use trial verison of Resco
2. Or, take the MicroSD card out and use a USB card reader and mount it in the PC and format it thru Windows.
I used the 2nd one.

first option doesnt work cause (if you read my and teunl's post) resco cant format it
second option doesnt work if you dont have a card reader. cause i only have one 8GB card and i dont see any reason to have a usb card reader when i have a usb connection to my phone.
so.. any other options please? thanks!

bbezja1 said:
first option doesnt work cause (if you read my and teunl's post) resco cant format it
second option doesnt work if you dont have a card reader. cause i only have one 8GB card and i dont see any reason to have a usb card reader when i have a usb connection to my phone.
so.. any other options please? thanks!
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Yeah, well now you have a reason. Go down to Best Buy and pick up a card reader they're only $19.95.

teunl said:
I have the same problem, i can still use the files on my card, but cant remove/format them or add any new files. for some reason my card is write protected, though it doesnt have a physical switch. For some reason there is a software lock that is activated by unkown reasons, it happend to mine by disrupting file synchronising by pulling the cable out of the phone... (or at least that is what i think.
I have searched the internet for many hours, i have read about people with the same problem. only solution is: return it to the point where you bought it and use your warrenty, I believe it is like 3 years. I cant do it because i threw away the receipt. So only option left for me is buy a new card... they arent that expensive anyway these days....
So if someone does know a solution please let me know, but I dont think there is any...
Teun
PS. i have sandisk 8gb
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Yeah, I have that same problem. Can't format, neither using Resco Explorer nor a card reader, can't copy files, delete files, move files, anything... but my files are still there! Any changes I apply to the card, if I soft reset my Cruise they are gone, but I can still see my files.
Seems to me that the card's FAT is corrupt or stuck, and can't be modified. Mine still has warranty, so I'll have to use it.
BTW, it's a Sandisk too, SDHC 6gb.

i dont have a warranty anymore so i can throw all 8GB away? come on stop acting stupid and let someone who has any clue about this to say something

bbezja1 said:
i dont have a warranty anymore so i can throw all 8GB away? come on stop acting stupid and let someone who has any clue about this to say something
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Not to be rude, but with your time wasted here you can pick up a new 8gb microSD card with a reader on Ebay for $15.75 US dollars. Look up auction item 320324507199.

Hello, I also had the same problem but only until I have put on my phone the latest official HTC Rom. I was curios what happened and I have seen that with the new ROM when I insert the storage card into the phone automatically it's created on it a file named "EncFiltLog.menc" (it dose not matter if you install the new ROM with the card inside or not). I believe this file is the cause why we can not format the storage card (I can see this file on the PC when I place the storage card in the card reader). I have search the web for a solution but I had found nothing, so for me the solution was to buy a card reader and now I can format the storage card and copy files on it much more faster than via activesync. I hope I was helpful.

tacginc said:
Not to be rude, but with your time wasted here you can pick up a new 8gb microSD card with a reader on Ebay for $15.75 US dollars. Look up auction item 320324507199.
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do i have to repeat myself? -.- i aint buying new card or card reader to read one single card in its lifetime. i dont have big daddy to budget me. i rather sell my TC
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now that i see cicads answer it seems that i aint getting any usefull help here. thanks everyone for your kind of help, tho i cant call "throw away 25 euros and waste another, and if you get lucky in a year or so you will have to waste yet another 25 euros etc" help to be helpfull
DEEP regards

Like i said before, there isnt any solution available... I have searched the internet, forums etc etc etc....
If your problems are the same as i discribed, then your just ****ed.. card is corupted. if it happened because of the official htc rom that would suck
though i have a card reader, but it still doesnt work for me.
corrupted card=no solution as of yet. Well unless you include warranty and throwing it away and buying a new one.
Sorry but as far as I know there isn't anyone who can help you (and me) if you ever find a solution, let me know.
Good luck
Teun

bbezja1 said:
i dont have a warranty anymore so i can throw all 8GB away? come on stop acting stupid and let someone who has any clue about this to say something
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Ok, let's cut to the chase: your card is corrupt, and there's nothing you can do about it. You won't be able to format it in any way. Well, you can always try tools like HP USB disk storage format tool, but you have to buy a cheap $5 USB card reader first.Anyway, I doubt it'll work.
You don't have warranty? Pitty. Yeah, throw away your 8gb card, and buy another one.
Are you angry about that? I would be too. Well... s%|t happens, live with it.

Phantom1275 said:
Are you angry about that? I would be too. Well... s%|t happens, live with it.
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ROFL ok someone sticky this please, really useful material in here
and btw Einstein, its not the card that is corrupt its the data

Help! Memory card undetectable!

Very confused, I minute I was listening to music and the next minute my memory card became unreadable. I have resetted the phone several times and have taken the memory card out and reinserted it and still it will not read that card and when booting as majority of my programs is on the card error messages on boot gallore. Also tried my sd card on my friends HTC and also same problem.
Any way to fix this problem as it still shows that the SD card has 1gig of information on it but it cannot see.
Hope someone can shed some light on this. THanks

USB?
I understand that it's highly unlikely ..........But, you're not connected via the usb cable to a PC are you? this will hide the starage card (unless by activesync)

Nope not connected to anything.. In Fact when I connect it to the computer, the computer won't recognize it either ..

Simply read these threads. Not that it will fix your card, but it will help you accept you simply need to buy a new one (given that you claim your PC also does not recognize it)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=476229
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=470184
Personally, I consider myself lucky that it is the card that broke, not the phone.

Check out the StorageTools app mentioned in the Thread above.
This has a verify option for SD cards. I used it on my 16gig card when it started behaving strange (due to some weird app I used and terminated).
Later I used the format option to fix the card - worked fine !!

Storage card "Error 13 changing to dir"

I got a new 8GB MicroSDHC (kingston),
and I received this error several times, on several occations,
even after re-formatting the card in the HD2.
Most of the time, it occured after writing to the StorageCard while connected with "ActiveSync" and using windows (XP) explorer to write to the card.
Another occation was when I tried moving files (with the device's file explorer) from one directory to another on the storage card.
I have tested the card - "Search for bad sectors" (with the HD2 connected as a storage device) - and the report came out clean.
Did anyone else encountered this ?
Does the hotfix for the storage card has anything to do with this ?

Som30ne said:
Does the hotfix for the storage card has anything to do with this ?
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The hotfix for the storage card was to address the issue with 8gig+ cards when the camera application miscalculated the amount of storage space left for photos or video capture.

morpheus1982 said:
The hotfix for the storage card was to address the issue with 8gig+ cards when the camera application miscalculated the amount of storage space left for photos or video capture.
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Ok, So I guess the hot-fix would not fix this.
Thanks for the reply.
Anyone else had this problem ?

Oh, another thing -
it hapened mostly (maybe only) after the card had more than (or close to) 2GB in use.
(Up to ~ 2 GB, everything seemed to work just fine)

That sounds like a dodgy card. You can reprogram the cards to say they have more memory on them than they actually do.
Where did you get it from? (Please don't say eBay )
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Try this - with the HD2 connected as a storage device, fill the card with 8GB worth of files (or near enough), and make sure you can copy all those files back off. If that doesn't work then it's the card and it will need to be replaced.

johncmolyneux said:
That sounds like a dodgy card. You can reprogram the cards to say they have more memory on them than they actually do.
Where did you get it from? (Please don't say eBay )
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Try this - with the HD2 connected as a storage device, fill the card with 8GB worth of files (or near enough), and make sure you can copy all those files back off. If that doesn't work then it's the card and it will need to be replaced.
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That's a nice Idea.
I'd try it.
No, I did not buy it from eBay.
I bought it in a store that I buy computer stuff from for several years . . .

Som30ne said:
No, I did not buy it from eBay.
I bought it in a store that I buy computer stuff from for several years . . .
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That's good then. At least if there is a fault in the card then you can take it back. If you trust the store though, I'd doubt they'd be selling spoofed cards.

johncmolyneux said:
That's good then. At least if there is a fault in the card then you can take it back. If you trust the store though, I'd doubt they'd be selling spoofed cards.
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Well, I did just that.
I went there, and requested a replacement.
We (the store's lab guy and me) checked the card, in the device, and in a card reader - in both it acted the same.
The interesting thing is - we tried 2 more cards (of the same brand and type) - the other two acted just the same.
I still have to check this with a different brand card and see how things turn out . . .

[Q] HD2 - Internal Memory 0 Free Space

I apologize if this has been stated before; however, I have been searching for the past 2 days and could not find anything. I would greatly appreciate any help.
The problem is that I do not have an SD card and installed WP7 onto the internal memory of my HD2. Every time I connect it to zune, zune tells me I have 0 free space left; however, my phone is currently telling me that I have 70+MB left. I try to sync a picture to my phone and it does not work. I tried messing with the reserved space, restarting WP7, re-installing it, etc. But the problem still persists. Am I doing something wrong? Do you need to have an SD card to copy stuff onto the HD2? If there is a way to fix this problem, please let me know or direct me to a thread that contains the fix, either way, I would greatly appreciate it.

You've answered the question yourself.
A sd card is required to let WP7 function properly as it will be part of the OS.
WP7 can be picky on sd cards though, not all are supported. It can cause wifi malfunction, bootloop or WP7 can't recognize SD error message.
It's a gamble, but SanDisk Class 2 and 4 seem to work for most people. (I use a 16gb Class2 SanDisk with no problem)
Hope this helps.

Have the same Problem, installed fresh, sinced my contacts and Email from GoogleMail and now no Space
insert the SD Card from my Android before, but nothing. Think i must format it

Gmic1000 said:
You've answered the question yourself.
A sd card is required to let WP7 function properly as it will be part of the OS.
WP7 can be picky on sd cards though, not all are supported. It can cause wifi malfunction, bootloop or WP7 can't recognize SD error message.
It's a gamble, but SanDisk Class 2 and 4 seem to work for most people. (I use a 16gb Class2 SanDisk with no problem)
Hope this helps.
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Sorry sire, but you are placing wrong facts on the table.
The problem mentioned in OP is because WP7 reserves some place which is around ~10% on the device for cache use and to serve as storage of emails, msgs, call logs etc.
GStar01 said:
Have the same Problem, installed fresh, sinced my contacts and Email from GoogleMail and now no Space
insert the SD Card from my Android before, but nothing. Think i must format it
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Your problem could be that WP7 does not work well with your SD. make sure it is class 4 or greater.

So, you need an SD card to add content to the HD2?

Micro SD Card performance issues

I have recently purchased a Nokia 6 with the intention of using a "previously bought/used" SD card. It's an Emtec SD Card with the following specifications:
Class 10 UHS-I
Read Speed: up to 85MB/s
Write Speed: up to 16MB/s
Compatible with all devices supporting microSDHC and microSDXC standards!!
I Googled which was the best SD cards to use in these phones & the below came up as an option....
"How to choose a MicroSD card for Nokia 3, 5, 6, 8 Android Phones
nokiapoweruser/choose-microsd-card-nokia-android-phones
Nov 28, 2017 - You can get a Class 10 UHS-1 MicroSD cards with great transfer speeds. Nokia 3, 5, 6 support SD card up to 128 GB storage capacity while Nokia 8 supports up to 256 GB. Click on the links below for your market to check available UHS-1 cards on Amazon and choose one for your Nokia smartphone."
The problem I have is that if I format it as "internal" it says the SD card is slow......however, if I format it as "portable" there are no issues!!
I'd like it to be formatted as "internal" because it then allows ALL apps to be moved to the SD card.
So if anyone has an idea as to why this is happening & how it can be prevented.....I'd certainly love to hear your replies
Thank you in advance

This is may caused by encryption of the SD card but I am no expert on this field... microSD cards are really bad at writing very small files so that could be a reason too :silly:

ZeroPointMax said:
This is may caused by encryption of the SD card but I am no expert on this field... microSD cards are really bad at writing very small files so that could be a reason too :silly:
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Thank you so much for your response!!
Trust me, I'm no expert either!! But this is happening while I'm trying to format the card.....there's nothing on it & it works fine once formatted as portable?
I'm sooo confused :silly:

same here bro..
I have the same issue with the Nokia 6, but with a Lexar UHS-II card. Was told by Nokia support to send it back to the retailer. I did. Got it back within two weeks, saying they didn't find any problems with the device.
Next I sent it directly to a Nokia service point, got it back within two weeks, saying they didn't find any problems with the device.
So I sent it in a third time (including the SD card this time) and I'm still waiting to get it back. (which I hope to be a good sign, since they received it on Dec. 11 and it's Jan. 02 as I'm writing this. I guess they're ACTUALLY looking into it this time.)
I will update here as soon as I get it back. IF I get the same phone, not a replacement.

I think this is a software related issue, I doubt that there are so many faulty devices without Nokia noticing. If an SD card gets formatted as internal, Android reformats it with the Linux Filesystem Ext4 and encrypts it. In order to write and read data from the SD card, it has to encrypt / decrypt that data every time. I suspect that the Nokia devices struggles somewhere in this process.

so many devices?
ZeroPointMax said:
I think this is a software related issue, I doubt that there are so many faulty devices without Nokia noticing. If an SD card gets formatted as internal, Android reformats it with the Linux Filesystem Ext4 and encrypts it. In order to write and read data from the SD card, it has to encrypt / decrypt that data every time. I suspect that the Nokia devices struggles somewhere in this process.
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I don't know if it's really that many devices, since every time I made contact with Nokia Support they told me (after throughout questioning) it seems to be a very rare problem, so they couldn't tell me any further other than that I should send it in for repairs. Same goes for the retailer I bought it off.

xsp33dx said:
I don't know if it's really that many devices, since every time I made contact with Nokia Support they told me (after throughout questioning) it seems to be a very rare problem, so they couldn't tell me any further other than that I should send it in for repairs. Same goes for the retailer I bought it off.
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hmmmmm..... I have a spare mSD card, i gonna test it. I will also look for a benchmark program...
It is a SanDisk Extreme 16G Class10 3-in-a-little-U microSDHC1. I do not have the packing anymore but Google says it has 60MBPS Read and 40MBPS Write speed.

I finished my testing: Although there is noticeable difference in the overall lag, it is not that heavy and the phone is still useable... i also tested Scout with an offline map installed and internet access disabled: with everything on internal storage: 5s start time; with everything moved via App2SD, it takes 13s to load.
I did not notice any huge performance drop though

So I got the phone back a few days ago, saying this is a software problem which should be fixed as soon as the Oreo update is installed. Hopefully they're right.

Huh... Weird indeed...

Thanx Heaps
Firstly, I'd like to thank you all for replying.....it's VERY much appreciated & great to know I'm not the only one with this issue!!
2ndly, a couple of things I failed to mention in my original post as I didn't want it to be too long.
Directly before posting my original question, I had actually been live chatting with Nokia support for well over an hour in relation to this problem & I had also tried a 2nd SD card (also Sandisk but had the same issue as my Emtec SD card) while live chatting......in the end I was told they would raise my issue with a higher department & someone would get back to me (still haven't heard back) & due to my frustration I'd forgotten a specific phrase that was coming up on my phone when trying to format it & was reminded by Meuselwitz's post..........after "both" SD card attempts the phrase "This SD card appears to be slow. You can continue, but apps moved to this location may stutter & data transfers may take a long time. Consider using a faster SD card for better performance"!!
I'm using what Nokia recommend!!!
Also, Karlsruhe......were you informed of when that Oreo update was going to be?? Or has it happened???

Hmm... What a shame that Support did not answer. Did you buy your SD cards online? I once bought a "SanDisk" on ebay but it was a (pretty good tho) scam which had significant speed issues and only ~2GB storage (I bought it as 16GB)
As a side note: Meuselwitz and Karlsruhe are (German) cities, not usernames
(well Meuselwitz is more like a village but no one cares anyway)

So... finally the support (via chat) gave me the solution to this problem: you need a card with at least 80mb/s write speed. Got myself a Samsung pro plus card, and it's fine.

That was it? Wow... Okay, I am glad that your problem is solved now :good:

ZeroPointMax said:
Hmm... What a shame that Support did not answer. Did you buy your SD cards online? I once bought a "SanDisk" on ebay but it was a (pretty good tho) scam which had significant speed issues and only ~2GB storage (I bought it as 16GB)
As a side note: Meuselwitz and Karlsruhe are (German) cities, not usernames
(well Meuselwitz is more like a village but no one cares anyway)
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My apologies....I've only just noticed the names at the top of the box.....I'm soooo sorry
I actually can't remember where I bought it.....looks like I'll have to buy another!! It does have 64GB thankfully I'll put this one in my work phone & the new one in the Nokia

You're all awesome
Thank you all again so very much I would not have been able to deal with support again!!
It is so good to know that "I'm not the only one" with issues with a new phone & to be able to get fantastic advice & feed back is even better
& the fact that I'm pretty unskilled when it comes to technology doesn't help my cause lol I'd rather build something
Also.....how bad would it be of me to finish this huge "Thank You".....with another question???
OK....so here goes, I'm trying to work out why, when I'm sent an MMS message that it automatically puts it into a group message with the person who sent it & "my phone"?? Then when I send a message back to the person who sent the original MMS I receive the exact same message :crying:
Any advice would be truly welcomed
Thank you in advance

xsp33dx said:
So... finally the support (via chat) gave me the solution to this problem: you need a card with at least 80mb/s write speed. Got myself a Samsung pro plus card, and it's fine.
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Thank you "YOU" are a legend

Notechy said:
My apologies....I've only just noticed the names at the top of the box.....I'm soooo sorry
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That can happen, no worries

I was having the same issue with an older Sandisk Ultra card.
Switched to a Samsung EVO select, issue resolved.

I have a similar problem with a verbatim premium of 256gb with my Nokia
Hello I bought a verbatim card of 256gb class 10, at first my phone recognized the card with 260gb, when I tried to use it as portable device, but when I tried to format as internal storage, the device start to popup a message unsupported SD card. This device doesn't support this card. After that I TRIED to format in setting and then with a computer with the app SD memory card formatter , and the computer recognized the card and I can transfer files, but when I put the card in the Nokia 6, it's show the message unsupported card, what I have to do in this case. I want to use the SD card in the Nokia 6