As the tittle says, my external SD card will no longer mount to my computer. The internal mounts just fine. I can see the external using a file explorer when USB mass storage isn't connected. I use my external card as a "thumbdrive" constantly and it has always mounted just fine, this just cropped up today.
I am running Bionix2 if that makes a difference.
What can I try to get it mounting properly again?
UPDATE:
I have tried turning on and off USB debugging
I have tried pulling the SD card, booting, turning back off, reinserting the SD card and booting again.
I have tried uninstalling the LG driver from the computer and reinstalling it (ADB)
None of these have worked.
The empty drive shows up in "computer" as a drive, the SD card just never mounts to it. When USB mass storage is ON the SD card definitely unmounts from the phone.
This is very frustrating as I need some files off the card and I don't have access to a micro SD card reader.
UPDATE2:
Got the files I needed by copying them from the external card to the internal card, connecting, mounting and copying them from the internal card to my computer. It is still a PITA though not as urgent as it was.
So last night I pulled the SD card, copied everything off and formatted it on my computer, didn't change a thing. I was then going to reload the ROM I am using. This didn't work as I am running external CWM recovery and it wouldn't mount the SD card either.
As a last effort before trying another card, I formatted (erase=format?) the card through Android. Everything seems to work fine again. I copied everything back to the SD card without an issue. CWM sees it again as well.
What could have caused the card to spontaneously need to be reformatted through Android after working perfectly well for 2 months?
DECIM8 said:
So last night I pulled the SD card, copied everything off and formatted it on my computer, didn't change a thing. I was then going to reload the ROM I am using. This didn't work as I am running external CWM recovery and it wouldn't mount the SD card either.
As a last effort before trying another card, I formatted (erase=format?) the card through Android. Everything seems to work fine again. I copied everything back to the SD card without an issue. CWM sees it again as well.
What could have caused the card to spontaneously need to be reformatted through Android after working perfectly well for 2 months?
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I had the same issue, I think when you install different roms some use different ext for the drives, thats why its critical that after each rom you wipe wipe wipe, and as we know now, lol format sd card
I have a stock rom on my S-off rooted Sensation. I reloaded a back up of the stock Rom I had made due to a gps file I wanted to get rid of. On my 32 gig sd card I had partitioned the card with a 2 gig ext 2 partition for installing my apps to sd card using the app called link2sd. I use that app on my Nexus One and other phones without any issues.The problem I had is after I flashed the back up stock rom the phone does not recognize the ext. partition. I have tried rebooting without success. Is there something I am not doing. I don't want to partition my card, I have all kinds of imfo on it I don't want to loose. Any help will be much welcomed.
Thanks
Vinny
My SD card reader recently stopped working in my Inspire. I've tested the SD card in other phones and it's fine. I've also tried using other SD's in my inspire to no avail. ClockworkMod Recovery won't mount it. Is there anything else I can try to fix this or should I just send it to HTC?
I'm running JellyTime R27 Rom, I haven't been able to upgrade since because of the SD not working. When I go into settings it acts as if there is no SD reader at all.
I faced the similar problem when I was using this rom, it was solved by formatting and re inserting sd card again which restored android sys files(keep the backup of your sd- card files)
Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G(sabsaprime v14.0)
Hi,
I was using Mildwild 7 and everything was great. Now my Desire will not read my SD card. I tried another and it will not read that either. I bought a new one and tried it but no luck. If I leave the phone until the screen blacks out then I cannot use the phone. I just tried this with the original SD card again and when the phone blacks out I can get it to work again...but the SD card is still not there.
Cannot mount SD Card
Cannot mount it in recovery.
Cannot flash new ROM without SD card to see if that helps.
How can I fix this?
Please help.
I tried flashing Bruno's extended internal memory mod here and everything seemed fine, but after rebooting, my phone no longer detects external SD card (The internal memory did get extended). Is there anything I can do now to make it mount the card? (even if I have to reverse everything and let there be two SD cards again). Thank you very much in advance.
P.S.: The card is completely fine and my PC as well as another Android device recognized it without any problem. Also, my phone is running Bruno's latest JB ROM.