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what happened - my SD card formatted itself?

So I get on the train, go into my MP3 player, and none of the tunes there. I check file explorer and the whole 1 gig SD card is blank.
It's a kingmax platinum 1gig sd
What could have happened?

Are you using an XDA1 with a 2003 ROM? I used to get this on mine, it's a bug apparently. Someone suggested a way to fix it, but it didn't work for me, I just kept it write-protected!

I am using an XDA IIi

DID U USE IT INANOTHER PDA DEVICE
if u used the SD card in another PDA device it may cause problems. or if u resart ur PPC a couple of times then it might format itself as well.

I haven't used it in anything else, or even taken it out. I reset the machine occassionally when it hangs...
Thanks for the replies, I'm still not sure what happened, but it hasn't happened since, so fingers crossed

sho ryu ken said:
So I get on the train, go into my MP3 player, and none of the tunes there. I check file explorer and the whole 1 gig SD card is blank.
It's a kingmax platinum 1gig sd
What could have happened?
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Hi. I have a SanDisk 1Gb SD card. Something very similar happened to me. Several times.
I felt quite sick the first time this happened but here are some things I have discovered.
1. It's a good idea to copy your entire SD card - lock, stock and barrel - to your hard-drive, or some other storage medium. (Er...except an SD).
2. Your card may not have formatted itself - try this: remove the card, (I blow on the metal contacts for luck,) replace it, access |Start|Settings|Today|Items, then alter the Today Timeout value on the Items page. Exit to the Today screen. Check your card using a file browser (File Explorer is OK for this).
Sometime this is enough to force your PDA to read the card.
3. Sync with your PC using ActiveSync (assuming you have this facility). Find a lightweight installation file that may be lying around undeleted on your pc and attempt to install it to the storage card. You may get arsey messages from ActiveSync or from your ppc saying it can't be done. You may not. You may even have to soft-reset your ppc BUT you may find that your Storage Card contents have *miraculously* reappeared!
WEIRD!?! But it has been said that truth is stranger than fiction.
4. It may be that after all this tinkering about the contents of your Storage Cards still reads as nada. Consider doing a proper format of the card and copying back the contents of your Storage Card that you, with great foresight, copied to your hard drive on your PC.
Or consider blowing out your card manufacturer and asking for a replacement.
Regards, The Gog.
PS Please don't ask me why this often works. Obviously it is magic, quasi-magic or SD is short for 'Satanic Devilry' and your data is possessed.

Mail program accessing storage card before it has started

Using HTC Cavalier with WM6, trying to get my mail stored on the storage card.
The registry edits work to direct the mail onto the storage card, but when the phone boots up, the storage card does not start soon enough and the mail program creates a "Storage Card" directory in main memory. Then when the "real" storage card starts, the phone renames it to "Storage Card2" which messes everything up big time.
Anyone got any ideas on how to fix this? Please help.
I have tried renaming the in-memory storage card directory to "Storage Card.bak" and rebooting, but then I get yet another "Storage Card" created in main memory in addition to the "Storage Card.bak" and "Storage Card2".

ActiveSync screwed up sd card

Howdy all,
I was adding a few themes to my phone, using Activesync to copy them to my 2gb storage card, which is about 30% full with music / apps / video / etc... I was looking through my themes (all on storage card) with Activesync connected and -poof- storage card vanished. I reset my phone and I get this message "Do you want to format this storage card to make it readable? this will permanently delete any files on the card." Of course I click "No"
Any ideas on fixing the storage card --what might be wrong? Any apps to help with this?
This is major problem number three with my phone --and all three problems (all three data loss) have been directly caused by Activesync...
Is there an alternative to Activesync --I am absolutely done with Microsoft.
Tmobile Wing
Windows Mobile 6.0

Try to insert it into your Computer and rightclick at properties on your Card. Ther you can click on something like "scan for errors" This should fix the problems!
Greetz

MicroSD switching to 'read only' + microsd killer

I have, it seems, quite a big problem. Some weeks ago I noticed some anomalies: photos were not saved after taking them with the camera, swiftkey was sending me notification about the 'not possible to save personal predictions' and so on, and I could not access the pictures gallery: 'sd card mounted as storage' and then would quit to the home screen.
I noticed then with root explorer that the microsd was mounted as 'read only'. Ok, put it back to R/W and things worked again.....for a couple minutes. Then again, read only and the same story.
I put the card in a card reader, checked with windows for errors: impossible to repair the media (sorry I don't know the exact words in english, but that would be the chkdsk function). Ok.....worst solution: back up the things, format the card, put the things back on the card. Well:
1 - back up the things = impossible. I chose something like 800MB out of 32GB of the microsd....and it was copying at 5KB/s. Definitely not normal
2 - I managed to copy the necessary things. format the card = impossible. Normal format would begin, and then one millimiter before the progress bar goes to 100%, it says 'impossible to format the card'. If I choose 'fast format', it says it right away. If I use some other tool like HP usb tool, it says impossible to format.
GOOD. I thought the card was dead....so I bought a new one (a genuine Kingston, 32GB). Things were working properly. But yesterday exactly the same happened: camera not usable, gallery that doesn't show the pictures, swiftkey doesn't give me predictions.
I check with windows: same thing. Cannot repair errors, cannot format the card. BUT I can copy from it and write on it with normal speeds. The phone would still go to read only and make a mess making the whole system unusable.
A small note: a LONG time ago I did edit the boot filesystem, in a way that the system mounts the physical microsd card as 'mass storage internal memory' and the real internal memory (12GB, in the case of samsung note) as 'physical micro sd'. This was a 'fix' from XDA, to make all the market application install the data on the bigger partition (microsd) instead of the (quite small) 12 GB partition.
But I don't think it makes a difference. Photos and stuff are really on the physical 32GB microsd, and it is not working. Also the thing that I cannot format it from windows is very strange. And this is a new genuine card bought last week. What kind of sorcery is this? Can it be that the phone's card reader somehow damages the card itself ????

Main storage not available on Motorola G7 power

Hi!
I have Motorola G7 power xt-1955-4.
And I also got a 512gb Kingston hama sdcard.
The card was formatted as internal storage.
The problem is that today I saw that I can't access the files on my phone. This happened after I moved several files from phone to my computer, to free up some space.
Now, when I open File manager it shows "main storage not available".
I reinserted my SD card a couple of times, but I keep having a notification saying "checking sdcard... Reviewing current content".
When I go to Settings - Storage it says only "sdcard checking..".
When I press on "Checking sd card" notification only it gives me the option to Forget.
How can I access my SD card without formatting it?
Thank you.

You said you moved some files from the card to your PC? How did you do this? If you removed the card from the phone and put it in your PC, then what you effectively did was slice off part of your phone's storage, messed with the files, and put it back in. You cut off a piece of brain, rooted around in it, and tried to reattach it.
Internal storage means the card is not removable, and the storage space will be filled with files essential to the phone. Chances are to get the card to work again it needs to be reformatted.

dannyetlv said:
Hi!
I have Motorola G7 power xt-1955-4.
And I also got a 512gb Kingston hama sdcard.
The card was formatted as internal storage.
The problem is that today I saw that I can't access the files on my phone. This happened after I moved several files from phone to my computer, to free up some space.
Now, when I open File manager it shows "main storage not available".
I reinserted my SD card a couple of times, but I keep having a notification saying "checking sdcard... Reviewing current content".
When I go to Settings - Storage it says only "sdcard checking..".
When I press on "Checking sd card" notification only it gives me the option to Forget.
How can I access my SD card without formatting it?
Thank you.
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Sorry I'm a bit late. I had this same issue recently. Until now, I have had a problem with any program recognizing the drive without offering to format it first. I can't do that because I am stupid and had important files on there I need. I just located DiskGenius and I am running it now.
Not sure this will repair the issue, but it recognized the sd card which I had set as the primary storage not knowing something like this could happen. It is running a search now for bad sectors. When it finds them, it will provide a repair, but the sectors will be deleted. I am hoping it won't be the sectors that contain my files that I need to recover. But it's a step in the right direction.
I now know not to set an sd card as main storage for Android, because it encrypts the files, and it tied the SD card to the system. I can't even install apps right now because the main storage is non existent.

I just had to throw out a 62g card due to corruption. I do t know how it happened but I eventually had to factory reset/wipe phone. I put the card in a laptop to reformat it. Wouldn't work. I'm getting a new card, but I will not make it phone storage. Bummed me out.