Hi folks, well I have a 32 gig external sd card that I recently loaded several gigs of music onto for a road-trip I have to take in 3 days.
Tonight I went to copy some files from the internal sd (not the 32 gig external) onto my computer, and it behaved strangely, so I powered the phone off to try again. Once the phone rebooted, both the 5 gig internal sd, and the 32 gig external sd cards report as being empty with all free space available, everything is gone.
I can't run recovery software from windows on the card , because when I mount the card it appears in windows as a portable media device, not a hard disk, so no recovery software recognizes it.
Anyone have any advice as to what I might try, in order to recover my music directories? I'm thinking I might be out of luck.
Thanks in advance
leopard_fist said:
Hi folks, well I have a 32 gig external sd card that I recently loaded several gigs of music onto for a road-trip I have to take in 3 days.
Tonight I went to copy some files from the internal sd (not the 32 gig external) onto my computer, and it behaved strangely, so I powered the phone off to try again. Once the phone rebooted, both the 5 gig internal sd, and the 32 gig external sd cards report as being empty with all free space available, everything is gone.
I can't run recovery software from windows on the card , because when I mount the card it appears in windows as a portable media device, not a hard disk, so no recovery software recognizes it.
Anyone have any advice as to what I might try, in order to recover my music directories? I'm thinking I might be out of luck.
Thanks in advance
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Who is the manufacturer of the card? Is it generic? This is an issue with cheap SD cards. Sounds like it needs to be formatted. Most likely your data is lost. Sorry.
I put the sd card in my older motorola atrix that I just recently retired from service use, booted the atrix to clockworkmod, from there mounted usb storage, and windows did assign the sd card a drive letter - I was able to run a data recovery program (easeus data recovery) and in about an hour recovered all my music to my laptop. Some of its in lost directories etc, but mostly the original folder structure is intact - in any case i've got my music back for my road-trip.
Why the newer lg ultimate 2 i'm now using only mounts the sd card as a portable media device, I don't know, and for the moment it doesn't matter.
thanks evolution
This had me thinking: if I was able to remove the sd card from the lg phone, and put it into the atrix phone, and recover/access the data - then what if for instance, you lost your phone, someone found it and put the sd card into another device/reader, and you had a titanium backup on that sd card- they restored the backup of some of your programs (complete with data)
wouldn't they then have access to some very private information of yours?
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i have a surface rt ( first generation ) running windows 8.1 ( i have a 64 gb sandisk sd card installed on my surface ( with all the pics, documents, videos, and music folders linked to the sd card ) today i decided do eject the sd card to install about 2000 songs from my laptop to my sd card, everything went normal, i finished coping the files , so i remove the sd card, and i put it back in on the laptop to make sure all the music was there, but i noticed that it never copied anything ( after spending 50 min for the songs to transfer) so i went to folder setting and unchecked DO NOT SHOW HIDDEN FILES, and there it was, a folder on my sd card called SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION , i tried to do a reset on the sd card put it gives me an error " couldnt be formatted , i dont mind loosing all the files on the sd card since i hace a copy on my laptop, i just want to factory format my sd card ...can anyone help me please
i tried taking full ownership of the forlder and sd card but it resets back everytime i open the sd card ,all i want to do is format the sd card, i dont care about the files inside since have a copy of my pics and music. I dont know what else to do, and dont want to throw away the sd card since its a 64gb card
im not even able to add files to the sd card its so stressing .
this are the folders i have inside the sd card
documents
downloads
music
pictures
skydrive
system volume information (weird)
torrent
videos
.dropbox.device ( weird)
i cant even use the sd card to store files. and if i change a setting on the sd card or try to take ownership it wont let me , i tried deleting all the folders but they keep coming back.
( i asked the same questionin microsoft forums but im not getting any answers )
thank you in advance
System Volume Information is a standard system folder that you will find on every partition of a modern Windows system. It stores things like recovery data. Did you even do a search at all? http://www.bing.com/search?q="System+volume+information"
Did you check the Music folder on the SD card to see if the files had been transferred there? Did you check the used space on the card to see if the multiple gigabytes that many songs would have taken up were consumed? Sorry if these seem like really basic questions, but I can't make assumptions here.
Format failing is weird, but the next step I'd try would be to un-mount the card. Use Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) or the command-line tool mountvol.exe (run CMD or Powershell as Admin) to remove the drive mapping, then try Disk Management, diskpart.exe, or the format command. Use the volume name if you need to (after un-mounting, there won't be a drive letter or mount point, of course).
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angel.mariano said:
i have a surface rt ( first generation ) running windows 8.1 ( i have a 64 gb sandisk sd card installed on my surface ( with all the pics, documents, videos, and music folders linked to the sd card ) today i decided do eject the sd card to install about 2000 songs from my laptop to my sd card, everything went normal, i finished coping the files , so i remove the sd card, and i put it back in on the laptop to make sure all the music was there, but i noticed that it never copied anything ( after spending 50 min for the songs to transfer) so i went to folder setting and unchecked DO NOT SHOW HIDDEN FILES, and there it was, a folder on my sd card called SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION , i tried to do a reset on the sd card put it gives me an error " couldnt be formatted , i dont mind loosing all the files on the sd card since i hace a copy on my laptop, i just want to factory format my sd card ...can anyone help me please
i tried taking full ownership of the forlder and sd card but it resets back everytime i open the sd card ,all i want to do is format the sd card, i dont care about the files inside since have a copy of my pics and music. I dont know what else to do, and dont want to throw away the sd card since its a 64gb card
im not even able to add files to the sd card its so stressing .
this are the folders i have inside the sd card
documents
downloads
music
pictures
skydrive
system volume information (weird)
torrent
videos
.dropbox.device ( weird)
i cant even use the sd card to store files. and if i change a setting on the sd card or try to take ownership it wont let me , i tried deleting all the folders but they keep coming back.
( i asked the same questionin microsoft forums but im not getting any answers )
thank you in advance
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i also have same pro but in windows 7 can any body help me
If you can get the SD card on a non rt PC try out this tool: Official SD
The tool also works with flash drives.
Hello,
i use the HTC Saga with cyanogenmod 10.2 and a 64 gb sd card. i formated the card with fat32. The phone recognizes the 64 GB and everything seems to be fine. this is my problem:
1. copy my music collection to sd card. Windows pc displays some 50 GB used, 10 GB free.
2. Put sd card in phone. phone displays only one folder with music, the other folders are empty.
3. connect sd card to computer. only the folder, which contains musikc according to the phone actually contains music. the rest of the folders are empty - sd card has only 10 GB free memory. so the sd card is full but the folders are displayed empty?!
What seems to be the problem? cyanogenmod? Android? Media scan? Sd Card? How can i solve this?
Maybe a problem with using a 64 gig card? I'm sure the DS was specced for 32 gig maximum, but an mobile at the moment so can't check.
Trying to format 64GB with FAT32 is the problem. AFAIK it's not expected to work, and you're going to get funny behavior.
I own a Coolpad F1 which has only 8GB of internal storage. How do I replace the internal with external SD Card? I don't have the vold.fstab file. (or I just don't see it). None of the apps I tried didn't work. I also tried GL2SD which does work but I'm trying to swap the memories.
janekmuric said:
I own a Coolpad F1 which has only 8GB of internal storage. How do I replace the internal with external SD Card? I don't have the vold.fstab file. (or I just don't see it). None of the apps I tried didn't work. I also tried GL2SD which does work but I'm trying to swap the memories.
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You cannot replace internal storage with an external storage sd card. If there is not SD card slot then there isn't support for SD. Although, there probably are ways to replace internal storage for a greater capacity, I would not recommend it. You would have to put all your software back on the phone. In other words, imagine taking the harddrive out of your computer and putting in another (not external, but replacing the original one).. You would essentially have nothing because windows (or mac) is on that.
Consider using cloud storage for files that can be placed there.
Nonono...
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You cannot replace internal storage with an external storage sd card. If there is not SD card slot then there isn't support for SD. Although, there probably are ways to replace internal storage for a greater capacity, I would not recommend it. You would have to put all your software back on the phone. In other words, imagine taking the harddrive out of your computer and putting in another (not external, but replacing the original one).. You would essentially have nothing because windows (or mac) is on that.
Consider using cloud storage for files that can be placed there.
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Let me rephrase: How do you mount external sd as internal sd?
I have an external sd card in my phone and I'm trying to use that big storage instead of the i ternal 8 gb.
I have a Shield tablet K1 which I’ve rooted and everything seemed to be ok.
That is until I allowed it to format a 64 gig card and move some apps to it.
Before doing that I could transfer files to the tablet and or to a card in the tablet via USB.
Now I can no longer see the tablet but I can see and transfer files to the newly formatted card.
I’ve tried all the obvious things such as reboot, USB on off USB file transfer method etc.
I’ve also noticed that I no longer have the option to un-mount the card and even with the card removed I still cannot see the files in the tablet.
Any thoughts and or suggestions?
TNX
You probably formatted the SD card as internal memory (new feature in MM). The card gets encrypted then. You have to format it as removable memory.
edisso10018 said:
You probably formatted the SD card as internal memory (new feature in MM). The card gets encrypted then. You have to format it as removable memory.
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Yup, that was it THANKS!!!!!!!!
I'm not sure I'm in love with MM yet....
MM is slow.
Basically I have an SD Card that I formatted as internal memory. It has worked well for about a year now. Today though, the phone told me that the card had been removed and that I should re-insert it. At the same time, it tells me that the very same cards format is incompatible and I have to format it in order to use it. All this while I never removed the card. The phone is a Moto G5 running Pixel Experience.
What I've tried so far is rebooting the phone and taking the card out and inserting it again, in various orders. Inserting the card into various computers, none of which recognize it (as expected). GPartEd shows the space on the card as not allocated.
Is there anything I could do to make that card be recognized again? Or else, to get the data off of it?
If this is not the right forum for this question, please tell me, or, if you're an admin, please move the thread.
When you converted external SD-card to Adoptable Storage it got formatted as internal memory and also encrypted as internal memory is.
AFAIK there is no chance to recover the data stored on because they are AES-encrypted.