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noob here. wondering why all of a sudden the sd card is gone from the drop down bar. it isnt able to be seen through the storage program built into wm6 faria crossbow. installed the cab wmstorage, and it helped. i can see the card on windows xp but it is still not on the pda. its a wizard with wm6. nothing pretty much installed at all. did a hard start to go fresh and it didnt help. please help me!!! im sure this has been addressed before, but im not familiar with the site yet and im in a rush to get this card back. its got work files on it that i need in the morning! i promise to be a good noob and research everything else from now on... thanks!
Will try to help you out. . .
First Drop down of what? are you able to see your SD card in Settings under Memory?
can you access your card in the XP PC? open and execute files?
Overclocked?
Hi, that happened to me when I overclocked my Wizard to 221MHz i think, dont remember now, but the SD card data became corrupted, with WinXP I could see the directories but the data was unreadable, I just formated the SD card in WinXP and everything was fine again, just lost all the data..
cya,
the drop down or "start" menu. i cannot see the card anywhere on the pda. i installed wm5torage, and was able to see the card on my laptop as another drive. and i was ale to get the files and open files ect... but i got real happy until i went back to the pda, and still not there. so the card is ok, and i was able to get the data, but whys it not showing up... ??? its a g3(?) and running wm6. hope this is enough info to get started. thanks!
this just happen to my mda also.. i had to call tmobile and get a new one.. the port went bad.. it would only work if i pushed the memory card down far as possible but once i took pressure off it would disappear
Before going through all the tech support and purchasing new cards....try this...as this has happened to me many and i mean, many of times...
apparently you may have for your email attachments to be stored on storage card, then you may have done a soft reset, and quite possibly an email attachment was downloaded before storage card was initialized... so it is possible that a folder named storage card could have been created and your actual storage card may not show or be shown as storage card 2
What I did was take the card out, and delete the sotrage card folder and then reinsert the card and it shows up propperly, hoping this is what happend to you, this may do the fix.
If not, im not sure of what to do...but just a little help from my side.
killa, i tried looking through all the folders, but i believe there are some i cannot find??? i tried to do the search, but it says that search only goes through the my documents folder. do you know where you found the folder? thanks for the help.
shadytwin said:
killa, i tried looking through all the folders, but i believe there are some i cannot find??? i tried to do the search, but it says that search only goes through the my documents folder. do you know where you found the folder? thanks for the help.
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Not too sure what happen to your device...but the Storage Card folder usually shows up in the root of the device just as the actual storage card does, as a matter of fact, the actual storage card would typically show up under the folder named storage card, and your actual storage card would show up as storage card 2.....hope i dont confuse you with that, but it seems that your problem may be an even more deeper problem than this, hope its not, but hopefully we can help you get this resolved.
the wm5torage program let me backup the files. the pda is still not recognizing it but i believe its a software issue obviously if the pda doesnt see it but my laptop does. i have the option of formatting the drive. i havent tried it yet, but im not sure if that will help anyway. i dont see how formatting will help the pda see it, but its another option right?
Why dont you try first on inserting other mini SD card first if your PDA recognize it then you might need to format the card. . . if it doesnt then its a phone problem? did you unlock your extended rom? it is also a reason why storage card is not available. .
Just one thought....It may be possible that your card is formatted in NTFS, then your card will only be readable in desktop but not in PPC
i was able to format it through the laptop as fat32. but it still isnt seen on the pda. i am on a business trip with a laptop and all my other peripherals are at home and i am two days away from being there. so no, i havent tried the other card/put the present one in the card reader ect... all that stuffs at home. i just dont see how all of a sudden, out of the blue, its no longer visible. i even hard started the pda and formatted the sd... it has to be a software issue. noones had this prob with faria crossbow? btw, thanks for all the tips, i try them as i read them!
Man, make it simple
You say that the Desktop PC sees your card, right ? Well , copy all you have on the MiniSD to the computer
Insert the MiniSD in the Wizard, and format it with any software that is able to do that(ex. RescoExplorer)
Then it should work, right ?
If you cannot see it at all from resco or similar, then reformat it into the PC and see that it is FAT not NTFS ... I don't remember which one Fat 16/32 but I guess that 32
Good luck
anichillus said:
Man, make it simple
You say that the Desktop PC sees your card, right ? Well , copy all you have on the MiniSD to the computer
Insert the MiniSD in the Wizard, and format it with any software that is able to do that(ex. RescoExplorer)
Then it should work, right ?
If you cannot see it at all from resco or similar, then reformat it into the PC and see that it is FAT not NTFS ... I don't remember which one Fat 16/32 but I guess that 32
Good luck
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ya, the card is seen but only when i use wm5torage and activate it. but it still isnt seen on the pda. when i did that, i formatted the card through the laptop as fat32. still not seeing but im finding info on alot of the forums here. i even tried the reg value change suggestions and that didnt work. im starting to think it maybe a bad card? but then why would i be able to see it on the laptop through the mobile usb connection??? grrr...
Then Hard reset Time if all solution you have seen have failed. . . you can backup your contacts using active sync or any third party software will do. .
Hello,
still relatively new here and have been having a good experience in general (other than wife complaining i am spending too much time on the forum )
I have a Orange Kaiser, using DCS 1.5 and a 1.64 radio. So far so good,...but tonight is a nightmare:
- My SD card, a 8GB model, is showing NO FILES on file explorer, other than a ttom file: I hard reset, and still nothing. But the memory programm is showing 3.5GB is used on the card. I browsed the card on my PC...same thing! I used to have maps, photos, cab files,... I tried scanning the card on my pc, and it did find a lot of lost files, but not usable. I basically am reformating the card since I have most on my PC, except for a few pictures. Did that happen to anyone before? I hope it does not happen too often, but a good lesson learnt on backup!
- The most annoying thing is that after hardware reset the Kaiser I still cannot connect the Kaiser to my PC! When I connect through a USB cable, I would see the carging led lit, but no connection. I have vista and upgraded to the latest 6.1 windows mobile device center, and still nothing. THis is really annoying as I cannot even flash a new ROM! I tried on my wife PC, tried several USB cables, and still the same.. Any idea? Should I jsut go to bed
Hopefully I can solve this one as I can't do much without it!
Thanks for any tip.
Juju
Start, settings, Connections TAB, USB-to-pc: untick "enable advanced networking"
My sdhc card has been fine for the last few months.
unwired4 said:
Start, settings, Connections TAB, USB-to-pc: untick "enable advanced networking"
My sdhc card has been fine for the last few months.
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Unfortunately tried that before and still nothing!
Juju
I know you probably don't want to hear this, but I've heard of quite a few of the larger Micro SD Cards (4GB/8GB) wiping themselves. I never looked deep into the cause though. As for your Active Sync, can you connect to a Windows XP based computer?
Just a couple days ago my 2GB MicroSD started refusing to write, kicking back errors that the disk was full (with 1.5GB free)
I copied all the data off and reformatted the card, copied it back, and it was fine. Must have been a corruption in the FAT.. caused by.. who knows!
juju-35 said:
Hello,
still relatively new here and have been having a good experience in general (other than wife complaining i am spending too much time on the forum )
I have a Orange Kaiser, using DCS 1.5 and a 1.64 radio. So far so good,...but tonight is a nightmare:
- My SD card, a 8GB model, is showing NO FILES on file explorer, other than a ttom file: I hard reset, and still nothing. But the memory programm is showing 3.5GB is used on the card. I browsed the card on my PC...same thing! I used to have maps, photos, cab files,... I tried scanning the card on my pc, and it did find a lot of lost files, but not usable. I basically am reformating the card since I have most on my PC, except for a few pictures. Did that happen to anyone before? I hope it does not happen too often, but a good lesson learnt on backup!
- The most annoying thing is that after hardware reset the Kaiser I still cannot connect the Kaiser to my PC! When I connect through a USB cable, I would see the carging led lit, but no connection. I have vista and upgraded to the latest 6.1 windows mobile device center, and still nothing. THis is really annoying as I cannot even flash a new ROM! I tried on my wife PC, tried several USB cables, and still the same.. Any idea? Should I jsut go to bed
Hopefully I can solve this one as I can't do much without it!
Thanks for any tip.
Juju
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You can put the phone in boot loader mode (hold down the camera button and do a soft reset) disable activesync on your PC then flash to another ROM or go back to the factory ROM. Hope this helps
-McMex
Sounds like you need to format the card. That usually works when they give errors like that.
A7LAS said:
Sounds like you need to format the card. That usually works when they give errors like that.
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Wow, scary thread. I think I'll back my card up right now. I install program files onto it frequently, I'd hate to lose all of that suddenly.
mcmexican said:
You can put the phone in boot loader mode (hold down the camera button and do a soft reset) disable activesync on your PC then flash to another ROM or go back to the factory ROM. Hope this helps
-McMex
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Ok, will try this, I am sure I could be yelled at because it is in the wiki somewhere, but how would I load the new ROM without the USB connection working? Boot form SD card?
I will also try another XP machine at work. Maybe it is a stupid security setting from Vista....
Thanks all for the feedback.
Juju
PS: Thanks for the other comments on the card. I re-formatted it (using a SD card reader), and now it looks fine, I was able to read my files again copied form the PC. Everyobyd make sure you backup for SD card often is all I would say!
Once you have the phone in bootloader mode and activesync disabled. Just run the rom like you normally would if it was connected thru activesync. It will recognize the phone and start the flash.
-McMex
mcmexican said:
Once you have the phone in bootloader mode and activesync disabled. Just run the rom like you normally would if it was connected thru activesync. It will recognize the phone and start the flash.
-McMex
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Thanks so much, will try over lunch!
Problems Solved!
Sorry empty post! (how do I delete a post!)
Problems Solved!
SD CARD not showing any files
I had to basically reformat it and lost all my files (4.5G worth). Fortunately I have 99% on my PC. Backing up the PC as we speak!
Lesson learnt: Backup your SD cards often!
Kaiser would not connect through USB
So, after trying XP, USB to PC options, bootloader mode (would do a 260 error), ...
I discovered my mini USB connector inside the Kaiser looked like it was not right (showing 4 pins higher than the other 2 in the middle). One of the engineers at work used his swiss army knife and straightened the inside of the connector, and... it worked. He did say it may not last long, so I may have to exchange the phone, but for now I am connected.
Lesson learnt: Beware when connecting and disconnecting, those connectors are fragile.
Thanks all for your help, and sorry to bother you with my problems.
Juju
Hi,
Just few hours ago, had power down while downloading files by activeSync to my HTC pro. Right after my SDHC (8GB) card became unusable. Had to hard reset my phone, but even after that I cant write to it and cant modify it, but i can still see all files on it while connected by activeSync.
HTC FileExplorer cant delete a single file, same with Resco, and Pocket mechanic is unable to format card.
Is there any way to format this card, or should i just bin it and buy new one?
try formatting through pc using a reader, they're pretty cheap
darek001 said:
Hi,
Just few hours ago, had power down while downloading files by activeSync to my HTC pro. Right after my SDHC (8GB) card became unusable. Had to hard reset my phone, but even after that I cant write to it and cant modify it, but i can still see all files on it while connected by activeSync.
HTC FileExplorer cant delete a single file, same with Resco, and Pocket mechanic is unable to format card.
Is there any way to format this card, or should i just bin it and buy new one?
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I believe you can hook up your device in storage mode, and reformat via windows. Or as stated above, use an external card reader. Either way of sounds like your data is toast. Good luck^^
well, i cant use it as a drive, cause windows shows its empty now. I mean, blank, unreadable and freezing windows to be more specific.
Had to remove card from the phone, as it was slowing it down so much, that it was practically unoperatable.
Card reader gives me only error message: cant read. I/O error.
But during activesync connection i can see all my data and folders there. Just cant modify them/delete/copy new/format/and or read exisitng ones.
So, i just wonder, is there any, slightest chance to format this card somehow, or i can only scrap it?
Maybe some kind of low level formatting utility for HTC?
darek001 said:
Maybe some kind of low level formatting utility for HTC?
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Pocket Mechanic might do the trick?
i think i will give up and buy new micro SDHC card....
Pocket mechanic, Memmaid, and file browser cant delete any of the files on my card, cant erase it nor format it.
After connecting to PC, ActiveSync shows card properly, but i cant modify it, or even copy files from it to my computer.
Standard Windows XP Format utility cant format this card, same with HP USB format tool.
Only program that can gain acces to this card is Paragon Partition Manager, so was able to copy all the files from my card to PC, but even this program is unable to format it, or delete partition.
It seems that my card became "read only".
Maybe someone knows Windows program allowing to operate on problematic SD cards?
Anyone got any ideas why when i try to copy things to my SD card on the phone via active sync they disappear?
I keep transferring a file (About 100mb) and it fails at the last second but has "consumed" the amount of memory and I cannot find it anywhere.
Not only that everything i transfer has been failing and nothing installs from the memory card!?
Its really odd and don't know what is causing it, and how do i format it?
I have the HTC XDA Orbit, so think co-pilot installation file is there, but not really important to me since it sucks.
Oh - And when i try to install WM6.1 it starts, connects, everything seems to be fine, then vista kicks me shouting no driver (USB Controller I think!?) the phone gets RGB screen and a reboot is required.
I wanna through it out the window!
Sounds like a corrupted card. Plug the card directly into your computer using a memory card reader and run scandisk/chkdsk on it.
I there any way to make a microsd card visible in the phone while connecting the phone in Disk card mode to a computer. Kinda like "Card Export II". But seems very simple to do like have the card switch to read-only mode on the phone when connected. Or if you can have read and right on both the phone and computer that would be amazing.
So does anyone see this possible?
Stalix said:
I there any way to make a microsd card visible in the phone while connecting the phone in Disk card mode to a computer. Kinda like "Card Export II". But seems very simple to do like have the card switch to read-only mode on the phone when connected. Or if you can have read and right on both the phone and computer that would be amazing.
So does anyone see this possible?
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im afraid that its not possible atm, since the computer is using the SD card as an extra HD to transfer files, and i had that come across all the time, i know its a pain especially if ure exporting pictures or wallpapers and try to see if itll fit or look nice on ur TP or FUZE but ya man it wont work, unless u can google it up and see if its possible, would be nice
The latest wm5torage does that. Only you need to run it and forget about the beautiful popup for selecting usb mode