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Sd usb flashreader kill xda data ?

I wanted to put some music on my sd card and i turned off my xda and took the sdcard and put it in my usb1.1 6-1 flash reader. Then I noticed that it was filled with odd corrupt files. It looked as if my valid programs on the SD card, mainly those installed using 'choose SD' in activesync, were dead
the sd is 256MB and 3 of the corrupted files in the root of the sd card
claim to be 1.3GB
I didn't format the sdcard when i got it the xda could read it just fine and i copied files from my mem to the SDflash and later on used activesync to install on it. So since this all happen after I put the sdflash in the flash reader. Could it be that causing it ?
This is not on a 2003 ROM so it's not related to any of those issues.

I make sure that before I remove my sd card from the card reader that I right click on the drive in "my computer" and click "eject", this seems to flush any cached or delayed write files and close any open files, give it a try and see if it prevent it happening again.

well i doubt thats the problem because i noticed those corrupted files when i plug'd the sdcard into the PC not when i put it back into the xda
i dident eject the card before taking out the sdcard of the pc
but i did turn off the pc which should result in pretty much the same thing

how do you guys take out the Micro SD card from the phone....do u guys just push the card and it eject or how? I can't seem to find a way to do it? Could my unit/device be bad?? please help thanks

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Hi ... i want to know if is posible how to dump a rom from my htc polaris.
and if some one know why mi SHDC 8Gb Trascend give me some problems about write or read between the PDA and the PC by de USB cable, or also with the TotalCommander inside the PDA, with a 2Gb i was the some problem, but with the Windows Explorer in the PDA i not have these problem.
Thanks a lot every all.

When transferring data from FAT32 (I think you can transfer up to about a gig when formatted in FAT 32, correct me if i'm wwrong though ...) formatted devices there is a data limit that NTFS does not suffer from, i don't know if the cruise can accept a NTFS formmated card, but it may be worth a try.

Ok .. i formated the microSD on FAT32 in my Windows Vista ... and .. the problem is when i want to transfer any file of any size from the PC to the PDA across the USB and Active Sync or the new Active Sync on Vista.
Also if i copy a file from the microSD to the main memory with the totalcommander it give a error, just if i use the Windows Explorer that came on the PDA to move or copy file inside the PDA beteween the microSD and e main memory i not have an error.
This problem i have also with a 2Gb microSD.
If i put the microSD on the laptop or desktop, with the adapter i can move, copy, etc.etc. with not problem.
Some one know about dump a room from the PDA to can have a backup to reflash to can execute de warranty on the telco ?.
Thanks alot against

i tried formatin on NTFS but in this file system the phone do not see the card

why not just format the sd from the touch cruise?

Goldcard creation bricked my Laptop SD

I created a gold card a few days ago to root my MyTouch and all went well. Phone got rooted, had Hero rom installed.. but now I cannot read any other SD card in the system aside from the Goldcard. Any device I plug in that is considered "Drive 1" is unreadable.
Is it now fubar or is there a way to un-do this crap?

razorz said:
I created a gold card a few days ago to root my MyTouch and all went well. Phone got rooted, had Hero rom installed.. but now I cannot read any other SD card in the system aside from the Goldcard. Any device I plug in that is considered "Drive 1" is unreadable.
Is it now fubar or is there a way to un-do this crap?
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could you elaborate more? is this a built in memory card reader? USB Reader? phone plugged in over usb?

have you try to reformat your card ?

I created the gold card with an external USB card reader.
XP cannot read the drive anymore, let alone format it. I have tried with multiple cards, card readers, etc.
I plug in my new Hero via USB and I get the "Please insert a disk" popup.
If I load up the HeX editor used in the gold card creation, it shows the Hero phone as Disk 1, which was the disk I did the Hex editing to.
As stated though, if I plug in any USB card reader and place the gold card inside, it reads that SD card just fine. Any other card says please insert disk. I have tried with 5 different SD cards.

it sounds to me like you need to uninstall drivers and reinstall. are you using windows xp or vista or what?

XP, but it looks like it's any device that ends up becoming "Drive 1" I have tried uninstalling drivers.
What does the HeX program actually do when you paste the goldcard.img values in?

Try booting your machine up with an Ubuntu livecd to see if it can read it

I had a similar issue to this and i solved it by inserting the card you want to format in the Mytouch, Mount the SD card through USB mode on the phone, and if it mounts as a drive through the phone, go ahead and format it there from windows.

Did that fix your other issues? I did the goldcard through an external flash reader, not through the MyTouch.. and as it would be, I do not have the MyTouch anymore, I have a Hero.
If I try and format the card on the hero it says please insert a disk.
The reason this is an issue is I cannot use HTC Sync nor the CoPilot Central software because it cant mount the phones SD card.

i created the goldcard through a reader and not the mytouch. once i realized that it stopped reading my micro sd cards, it tried to get it mounted on the mytouch running a hero rom which it was able to and i formatted it on windows while it was mounted. I think the issue now is that your micro sd adapter might be corrupted from the goldcard creation. do you have a spare micro sd adapter and reader available? try and see if you can see the card from there.

I should be able to mount the SD card from my Hero in windows correct? If so, this is a brand new device, brand new USB cable, brand new SD card plugged into a totally different USB port. Still doesn't work.

Lost data on storage card after upgrading

Hi people I have a big issue...
...After I flashed a new ROM on my Polaris, if I browse to my storage card for unbackup my data the storage card results with no file but the it's no empty but no files are shown... Even on my computer the Memory Card is half full but there's no file inside... Using recovery data software the problem cannot be solved...
Please help me
Thank you guys

put the card in a sdcard reader and use any undelete tool for windows (this is where you find one using google) it works on sdcards just like it does on harddisks

I did It with several software and with microSD-SD adapter or microSd-USB adapter but only few useless file are displayed... it says that there's 2gb of free space but no files are displayed...

im pretty sure that leaving the sd card in while flashng isnt recommended
unless ur flashing from card and i didnt think that that was possiible

Interesting sd card problem

I have an 8GB micor Sd card. In a card reader on my computer it is not recognized. In android devices it is recognized, but says that there is an error. Formatting does not fix the issue, and the phone will not mount it. Any thoughts?

Did you already tried another computer ? There may be a driver issue.
You could go to the website or your brand computer and download the newest drivers (Chipset)

There are some possible reasons
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<li>drivers for sd card host adapters not installed</li>
<li>sd card or sdcard mounter on phone/pc is broken</li>
</OL>
Best solution: buy a new sd card...there may be several detailed methods to fix this too
Hit thnx pls
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Not the drivers, other sd cards work fine. Not the phone, my 32gb micro works fine in that. So, I mean, thanks guys. But, I have tried all of those.