Hi all,
I created a recovery USB on my Surface Pro from within windows.
It didn't give any errors.
When I try to boot into the recovery USB I get this error.
I tried another USB stick (both of them were 16GB) and get the same error when trying to boot into it.
Any ideas on what I should do to fix this?
Is there a problem with my recovery partition on the Surface Pro?
Should I try to run the recovery from the SSD?
Thanks,
Rich
Just as an update in case anyone else is having this problem.
The solution to this problem was to remove the microSD card when booting from the recovery USB. Both previously created USB recoveries work fine now.
Does this by any chance means that"We can use the MicroSD as a Boot device? I suppose that since the BIOS is redirecting the boot sequence to the MicroSD, that this means it can be used to Boot the surface.
If this proved to work, then I just don't have enough words to represent my happiness.
Imagine that you can create a recovery MicroSD - or Put Live Ubuntu Image that you can use to get access to your SSD contents in case of Blown up OS - and toss it around in an Full size SD Adapter to save it in a Memory card wallet or something, and use it whenever you need, That would be awesome.
Can you please look into it?
When you create the recovery drive it gives you the option of selecting the usb or micro sd, so I guess it would work.
USB is much cheaper though. I bought one of the metal hp ones that is the same size as the usb slot and about 10mm long.
I keep it in my case and it won't crack like an sd card might.
There are a few sites that say you can boot into ubuntu from either usb or micro sd.
I don't want to erase my 64gb sd to test it though...
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Thanks for the info, I'm thrilled to know this Many awesome scenarios are spinning my head now.
Being able to boot from an SD is not a rare feature. My 5 year old dell inspiron is very happy to boot from SD, or it was until the card reader died.
In general you can treat a bootable SD identically to a bootable USB. Will work in the same way usually.
Its quite logical to assume that SD was higher up the boot order than USB in this case.
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Being able to boot from an SD is not a rare feature. My 5 year old dell inspiron is very happy to boot from SD, or it was until the card reader died.
In general you can treat a bootable SD identically to a bootable USB. Will work in the same way usually.
Its quite logical to assume that SD was higher up the boot order than USB in this case.
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Well, That's funny to know, My Sony Vaio SVZ (2013) i7 Quad-core/256GB Raid-0 SSD/4G can't boot off niether the Sony Memory Stick, nor the SD card. So its a matter of a BIOS support I hear you sayin'
I owned top of the line laptops since laptops introduction, but non supported that feature, which I find really useful. Think, Recovery/Ubuntu/Live editions of XP/Vista/7, Live Antivirus ISOs, Live Network ISOs, and list goes on and on. Neat to have I must say!
Tried with linux mint this morning, all 3 netbooks in the house were fine to boot from SD.
Did have to change bios boot order on all 3 though (mass storage was at bottom)
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so that's the idea, shouldn't be too hard right? Install puppy (or your live cd of choice) onto the micro SD in the G1. From here boot the laptop from the live USB located on the SD. Is this possible, or does something in the phone prevent it from being seen as a bootable usb device?
Either way, you should end up a sick little linux live micro-sd It can be tiny too, picked up The Kingston Mobility Kit. It works great for older computers that have issues with sdhc cards and works great as a boot device on my older pavillion laptop. The micro sdhc usb adapter is about the size of a long thumbnail!
If all goes better than expected... we'll be able to boot a pc with no drives from just the G1 and a USB cable. Then use the awesome TetherWiFi app to get the driveless pc online!
What do ya think? has this already been tried and failed and a complete waste of time :/ I have no clue what I'm doing, hopefully this sounds fun to someone wiser than I lol
booting computer from G1 already done successfully:
http://blog.integrii.net/?p=173
looks easy to realize,
greetings
One thing I've found though is that transfer speeds to/from the G1 are bad, it slows the card down dramatically. Best just use a MicroSD stick.
That's one of the best things about the 100mb Puppy live distro. Even from cd, which i believe is far slower than usb, the entire installation takes all of 5 minutes. The OS is actually installed into the laptop RAM. In other words once installed speed is dependent on your computer's ram speed, not the g1's transfer speeds.
I have almost no experience with linux but the gui of puppy is similar to windows so very newb friendly
Edit: Also using this RAM only method, nothing on the hard drives is touched or modified. Making it great for those looking to learn *nix but need to have windows as their primary OS. Just reboot w/o the SD and whalla back in winblows.
So far I have a good live CD working. now to put it on SD. usb boot is being a bit more difficult lol
ok, usb setup was a piece of cake once I tried it in linux(I think it's because the sd ?needed? to be ext3). Now it installs completely off sd and leaves no traces.
Here's an excellent step-by-step for once you have a working Puppy Live CD. Artie's 4.1.1 setup and tips. You should be able use your G1 and usb cable to set the sd up.
I still can't boot from G1 (bios doesn't see it, back to searching lol), For now I have to put the Sd into the mini usb reader. Besides that everything works great.
I also partitioned my 4g sd into 2 drives, one for storage one for puppy.
Hey guys!
Last friday, I finally got my Toshiba TG01, which came with a 8GB Class 4 microSDHC card.
I didn't put it in my phone, since there's a virus on some of these cards!
Now I want to format the card with my Windows XP computer, but when I try to access it with a SD card adapter, it freezes my Explorer...
It gets stuck until I put the card out of it!
I also tried a USB adapter on my Vista PC and it only tells me this:
"Please insert a disk into Removable Disk ( H: )."
Same thing on the XP PC.
Can anyone help me?
sounds like a defect microSD card
Try disabling the autostart feature and then use the Panasonic SD formatting software.
yip know the feeling, the cheap card that came with my HD does the same, although it still works perfectly with my device and is accessable using a/sync.
Going to buy a good make class 6
well id put it in the phone then put the phone into the pc and make it a usb mass storage device
then if it can be seen then awesome format it
the card wont have any affect of the phone its it plugged into the pc as a mass storage device as the phone cant se it
Try reformatting the card, to fat32 using hp's low level format tool it worked for me.
my card is fat32, pc using xp pro still wont recognise it using card reader, although all is fine in disk drive and active sync......no real biggy....
it may be a defective reader
Hi all, just wanted to add something to this, as I have a TG01, and have had a few issues with memory cards with it. This is something I poseted on http://www.modaco.com/content/toshi...5/strange-files-appearing-on-my-storage-card/
"Hi folks, just thought I would update you with a few issues I'v had re the memory cards. I've used the ones supplied by Toshiba, (not the best) but also a Sandisk 16GB and 8GB, and both suffered corruption issues. It took about a hour to copy most of the files over to my laptop, and to do that, I had to put the mem card in my Touch Pro! I'm not sure what this means, as some people have said they have had no issues. It would be interesting to see what proportion of us actually suffer from memory card corruption using other brands! Looks like I may have to carry a backup of my mem card for a while!!... "
I'm not the only the only one with issues, as a few others on that forum have had them too. Wish i knew what was causing it. May have to go back to the old reliable Touch Pro untill we get the promised upgrades?..
Lets hope not.........
nope its not the reader, bought a new one last week as i thought it may have been that. Im sures its something to do with micro sdhc cards and just being made baldy.... cheap is nto always good huh...............
mm thought id add a poll to the thread, would be interesting to see whats the worst offender.......
Let me know if your brands not there, ill add it
Hi, have you already tried this??
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/...g-folder-or-corrupt-in-windows-mobile-device/
I have a MT3G rooted with CM 4.0.4 using the one click method. I'm getting a new Transcend 8GB Class 6 card. I believe this card come with an adapter to plug into a regular SD slot. To format do I just use my comp to format the card to FAT32? Then load my saved data back to the sd card and load it back into my phone? Is it that easy?
Welcome to forums,
Yes it works that way
lol, yep as orb says
I have the same card (which i will be shortly throwing in the bin due to its unreliablity) and find its better to use the sd adaptor than one of those crappy usb adaptors for micro sd cards (like the sandisk usb adaptor that doesnt work!!)
Just my opinion, but id recomend buying the best make you can when it comes to micro sdhc cards, my transcend one decided to wipe itself clean the other day during a phone call..... a sure warning that its on its way out....
Lost all my music, photos blah blah..... (didnt back it up either tut tut...)
Flash Format is the best way, imo. I've had corruptions before where my pc and fuze couldn't sse the card, but flash format was able to re-format. The demo works fine, and the app costs about 10 bucks. I've had major problems with my 16 g sandisk, but think I figured out how to keep it healthy. Quick tips: 1 Set all default downloads a nd save paths and whatnot to main memory, including PIE cache. 2 Put any apps you use a lot or especially that run continuously (don't forget services) on main memory. 3 Do not put Finger Keyboard on your card, lol. The instructions tell you not to, but this is not a challengr to do it anyway. Guaranteed corruption. Trust me, I did it cuz I'm an idiot. 4 If you use a disk scanner/repairer, and it finds problems, don't just delete the recovered (and messed up files). Open them with notepad, and see what they are. This will give you an idea of the corruption source.
My notebook is not picking up the sd card with adapter? I have a slot on my notebook, I thought it was bad contact, cleaned it and still nothing? WTF!!
timmymarsh: This is a subjective topic in terms of SD card, I looked and everybody recommended Transcend, its even on a list of recommended cards by TMobile?? I guess I'll find out? Do you have a recommendation?
FarmerTed: Flash format say nothing about being compatible for android os? I don't know if it will work?
why dont you just put the sd card into you phone. mount the sd card via usb and format it from there?
I tried that, but my notebook says theres nothing? I also tried just installing the new card and trying to format it with the phone. I formated the card, but it said the card is damaged and it wont do anything? So either the card is just not getting recognized or it is bad? I'll keep tinkering with, if it doesnt work, I'll send it back to newegg.
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FarmerTed: Flash format say nothing about being compatible for android os? I don't know if it will work?
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Oops, sorry, didn't realize you were on android. All I can suggest is searching for a similar app that runs on android, or maybe looking for undelete programs for your desktop. There's probably something out there that will fix your card.
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My notebook is not picking up the sd card with adapter? I have a slot on my notebook, I thought it was bad contact, cleaned it and still nothing? WTF!!
timmymarsh: This is a subjective topic in terms of SD card, I looked and everybody recommended Transcend, its even on a list of recommended cards by TMobile?? I guess I'll find out? Do you have a recommendation?
FarmerTed: Flash format say nothing about being compatible for android os? I don't know if it will work?
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Yh it is subjective and i dont know about recommendations, but im going to think about sandisk, im just very cautious about transcend card after it wiping itself....
Why is it such a problem moving large files, such as roms, to the sd card from a pc thru usb. It will stop and say something about camera has stopped. I had to put my sd card in the wifes HTC tb to put the rom on the card and put it back in the SG3 to install a rom. Am I missing something?
Thanks, Mike
I have this issue too and hate it big time.
I have to move 200-300mb at a time now.
Moving more is like never gonna happen. Wish they'd fix this. Hate to have to buy a micro sd OTG USB adapter just to move files around.
Try different cables. I am constantly moving large files around with no issues. In fact it's faster than moving files from my hard drives on my cpu. 1gig from sd to cpu takes less than 30 seconds. Faster from external sd/running sd speed boost.
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Tried several, tried the one that came with the SG3, tried the one that came with the HTC TB, Tried a motorola. All with same result. Moving files off sd is no issue, just moving files onto sd from pc is problematic. Few songs at a time is no issue, but a ROM is not going to happen. Gets all the way done then states camera has stopped and will not go. I keep thinking I must have an option ticked incorrectly somewhere in the phone, but if it is, I can't find it.
Mike
Your in mtp mode, not camera mode correct? Loading onto sd is good for me, 800mb rom's load on I'm less than a min. Weird.
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Actuall no I was in (PTP) camera mode. I just saw move any files. That must be the issue. I saw the MPT and thought it was just for syncing audio and such. Will try when I get off work. Thats probably the problem I was looking for, Thanks.
Mike
I have the exact same problem (one I've never had with any other phone)
I was trying to copy blue-ray rips to my 64 gig sandisk card while the card was in the phone. I am using a brand new straight from the package cable that came with my second G3 (I have 2 phones). It starts to copy just fine, but quits 1/2 way thru & stops responding. every single time.
This is a brand new I7 PC that I just built a few weeks ago running Windows Seven Pro with 8 gigs of DDR3 RAM.
If I use a universal reader (even thru a USB HUB) the files copy just fine either from any of the three 2 terrabyte secondary hard drives or from the solid state boot drive to the card.
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I have the exact same problem (one I've never had with any other phone)
I was trying to copy blue-ray rips to my 64 gig sandisk card while the card was in the phone. I am using a brand new straight from the package cable that came with my second G3 (I have 2 phones). It starts to copy just fine, but quits 1/2 way thru & stops responding. every single time.
This is a brand new I7 PC that I just built a few weeks ago running Windows Seven Pro with 8 gigs of DDR3 RAM.
If I use a universal reader (even thru a USB HUB) the files copy just fine either from any of the three 2 terrabyte secondary hard drives or from the solid state boot drive to the card.
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More than likely its as annoyingduck said, try mtp mode not ptp(camera). I think ptp is just optimized to do a 'camera' sync onto your computer. (for windows users, that annoying dialog box that pops up asking if you want to sync video, pictures, make a dvd, etc...)
I didn't realize I had the same problem as well. Awhile ago, I noticed that my data transfers would time out and I've only ever used camera mode. Thanks for the tip!
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You could also give Airdroid a shot. It works over wifi so it's just a touch slower than the USB cable, but it's super solid and is wireless too!
No mention of manufacturer, class or capacity of sdcard?
Makes a huge difference.
Also make sure to be using an OEM usb cable from a major manufacturer. Knock off or cheapy dollar store cables just don't cut it for charging, let alone transfer...
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You could also give Airdroid a shot. It works over wifi so it's just a touch slower than the USB cable, but it's super solid and is wireless too!
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I actually find it a shade faster than my pitiful USB 2.0 ports.
Takes about 5-10 minutes to xfer 700mb files on Airdroid. I think anyways, I'm guestimating from about 10 hours ago when I xferred a 700mb file. I wasn't on top of it but I'm pretty sure it finished closer to the 5 minute mark...
That fixed it, switched mode and tranfered a rom. First time it timed out, tried again and it went through fine. Was using the OEM cable with a 32 gb sd, not sure of class. I know its not a 10. Will take a look at Airdroid, thanks for that tip.
Thanks, Mike
I like using samba wireless. It's free but requires root.
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No mention of manufacturer, class or capacity of sdcard?
Makes a huge difference.
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Sandisk (junk, I've had three burn up) class 10
I can take the card & stick it in my Rezounds & it loads fine, put it back in the G3 & nothing but problems so I gave up and use a card reader.
If you are technologically adept, feel free to read only the bold.
1. Remove your card from the tablet and plug it into your computer, using any kind of adapter.
2. On a PC, you can find the microSD card by choosing Computer from the Start menu, or by opening Explorer on Windows 8 (and then looking for Computer to the left).
3. Copy all the files and folders you want to save off the SD card. To be safe, you might want to copy everything and run a storage scanner like the free WinDirStat on your folders before you delete everything.
4. Right-click on the microSD card and click Format. Set the Type to NTFS and the allocation size to Default. Click Format again.
5. Pop the microSD card back into your tablet. It should bloody work.
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If you are technologically adept, feel free to read only the bold.
5. Pop the microSD card back into your tablet. It should bloody work.
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It should bloody work, but for some of us it doesn't! I have a Team 64gb class 10 card, and I simply can't use it on my Shield. The Shield recognizes that there is a card inside, but I can't actually do anything with it. It works fine on my laptop and on my Nokia 520 backup phone. Have tried other formats, FAT32, exFAT, nothing works on the Shield, everything works everywhere else. My other Sandisk 32gb class 10 card works just fine on the Shield.
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It should bloody work, but for some of us it doesn't! I have a Team 64gb class 10 card, and I simply can't use it on my Shield. The Shield recognizes that there is a card inside, but I can't actually do anything with it. It works fine on my laptop and on my Nokia 520 backup phone. Have tried other formats, FAT32, exFAT, nothing works on the Shield, everything works everywhere else. My other Sandisk 32gb class 10 card works just fine on the Shield.
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So let me get this straight, the card is not only not writable, but it's not readable either?
While the size of the card is within the scope of these instructions (I used a 64GB Samsung), the behavior it's been previously exhibiting is not.
Have you successfully used it in other devices? Have you tried different cluster sizes?
The card itself is perfectly fine on other devices. I've used it in my Note 3, Nokia 520, and its recognizable in all formats on my laptop card reader. The Shield is only one with an issue. It sees that there is a card inside, but i can't do anything with it. I've tried FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, nothing works. But like i said, the 32gb card is recognized right away.
Same boat ak146
Just picked up my sheild 16gig today and stupid me updated straight to lollipop 5.0.1 then inserted. My 64gig samsung hc class card in. The sheild recognized it immediatly but when i tried to download straight to it got an error it wont let me take anything off or add to it and i know its fine cause my pc and note 3 both used it flawlessly i want to root but it seems really tricky my note 3 has been rooted since i got it but dropping 300 on this bad boy im pretty disappointed im having this problem already 156 sorry bro
Try downloading and applying "SDfix" from the Play store. It worked for me