Hi Guys, yesterday i decided to reset my xperia z5 to factory defaults because i wanted to have it with the apps i use the most and remove all of the others that i didn't use that much. So instead of uninstalling the ones i didn't use, as i said before, i did a factory reset. Before doing this i decided that it would be nice to take out my sd card to copy some pictures, without remembering that i had my sd card encrypted with my fingerprint, so i did the factory reset (with the sd card out of my phone) and after that i noticed that there was a marshmallow update for my phone, i accepted the update (with the sd card off my phone) therefore when i moved all the sd files to my NAS and i put the sd card back in i saw that all the files that i had moved to my NAS where still there. after that i decided to format the sd card with my surprise of seeing a Windows error message of "windows cannot complete format", i did a low level format, formatted my sd card with disk part, etc. None of the things i did worked, Do you guys know what i could do to my sd card to delete all the files in it?
Thanks a lot
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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).
memory card surface error
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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
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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.
I'm going crazy here! Out of no where my 64gb card would no longer allow me to write to it or delete anything from it. Probably had it for about a year without one problem. I tried wiping it, reformatting it, and no matter what I was sick with what was on the card.
Figured the card was corrupt so I bought a brand new one. Formatted it fat32, installed it and transferred a bunch of movies & pictures to it on my pc without a problem. Now I'm trying to transfer a movie to it I downloaded to my internal memory & it fails. Trying to download a movie directly to the external sd card I keep getting the same error "no such directory".
I'm rooted running liquid smooth, & checking root explorer it is mounted as rw.
What am I missing here?
I recently updated my AT&T LG G4 to 6.0 Marshmallow, and noticed that I could no longer save pictures to my SD card. Upon further inspection, I realized that I couldn't write files nor folders to my SD card, through both apps and manually on my computer. However, I could still read the contents of my SD card. When I then went to format my SD card, I found that I was given an error that /storage/aaaa-aaaa (where aaaa-aaaa is my SD card) could not be found.
Is there anything that I can do to fix this?
Hi folks,
I have an SD card here that I was using for Adopted Storage but I've managed to get it stuck as an "adopted" card and can't seem to get it back functioning as a normal SD card
Long story short... I wiped the device the card was in but I didn't "unadopt" the SD card before hand - as in set it back to portable mode. While the device could recognise there was an SD card afterwards, it couldn't prepare it for use and suggested a card error or something to that effect.
I figured I'd just pop it in my laptop (Windows 10 x64) and re-format it but this didn't work. Failing this, I decided I'd "nuke" it using Minitools Partition Wizard. While this program had better luck identifying the card, could display and delete the partitions on it and could run the Wipe task - it had no effect on the card... the partitions just re-appear after any attempt to nuke them!
Has anyone any ideas about how I can restore this card back to a normal FAT formated SD card?
Just to clarify - I don't care for the data that might be on it... I just want the card back usable
Thanks
Recovering an "Adopted" SD Card?
The best solution for now would be to plug the sd card into a phone with android 6.0 so that the phone can read the card and then while setting it up,you can format the card as "normal "(the part where it asks you whether to use the card as in adaptive storage or for accessing files).
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The best solution for now would be to plug the sd card into a phone with android 6.0 so that the phone can read the card and then while setting it up,you can format the card as "normal "(the part where it asks you whether to use the card as in adaptive storage or for accessing files).
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When I try this, I get "Unsupported SanDisk SD card"
I'm then asked to select either Portable or Internal and then Erase & Format but neither work. They fail at 20% and the message "Unsupported SanDisk SD card" is shown again
I'm a bit stumped. I thought surely the encryption used on adopted cards was only to stop external reads. It seems in this case it's stopping me from writing to or formating the card
Running out of options
Galaxy S7 - Cannot Decrypt SD card (haven't factory reset&used only with this device)
Hi guys,
So I've read the forums here and tried all solutions but none have worked thus far.
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S7
Model Number: SM-G930F
Android Version: 7.0
Build Number: NRD90M.G930FXXS2DRA9
Basically, I want to decrypt my brand new SD card which for some reason, it won't let me.
After doing all of the below, when I select the "Decrypt SD card" in Security Options menu, it takes me to the "DECRYPT SD CARD" page which says the message "This SD card cannot be decrypted because it was encrypted on another device. SD cards can only be decrypted on the device used to encrypt them. Decrypt the SD card on the device used to encrypt it, then reinsert it in this device, and try again".
This happens every time I go to decrypt the SD card. I have tried the following popular methods for solving this issue:
• Turned off Lock Screen security, removed SD card, rebooted, re-inserted SD card.
•Turned off phone, and held Home_Key, Volume_Up,Power at the same time and then cleared Partition Caché, rebooted.
•Deleted Android "LOST.DIR" folder (which it won't let me delete anyway).
•Rebooted the phone.
I haven't
•Used the SD card in any other device other than this one
or
•Factory reset the phone (I know this can lock you out of the files on your SD card permanently).
so these two are not the issue.
I have tried, what feels like, almost everything and nothing has worked so I'm wondering if there is anything else I can do? People say they have done the above and it's worked but for me it hasn't which is frustrating.
I don't care about the files - it's a brand new SD card (10 days old) with only a few videos I've taken so I don't care about the files. I just want to be able to Decrypt the card, and Encrypt it again.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Hmm, I recreated your problem kind off.
I encrypted an SD card on a J3 a few pictures and a video, when encrypting it, you have to create a password 6 characters including at least 1 letter and 1 number, so I did.
Then I took the SD card to my S7, same model as yours and on nougat.
Once the card was on, I got the following message, the one you mentioned Pict 1 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AucTXRDIpxdm7sM8Nvv2wFy5fHJc_4Ld/view?usp=sharing
Then when you click on the arrow < decrypt sd card it takes you to the storage screen Pict 2 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pC-M0TW2abQkSPBxbxtfRjwlVs6F3w5U/view?usp=sharing
then when you click on sd card ffrom that screen you get the message card has to be mounted Pict 3 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ah8B5tb0EG_UN1K2ZWzQ1sh_kiQ0sdOD/view?usp=sharing
Then when you click on mount you get the format sd card screen Pict 4 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g_U94OsGUouKqtBaq2laS72HOtnd1WgX/view?usp=sharing
then I went to the J3 and decrypted the sd card
When I put it back on the S7 this is the message I got Pict 5 https://drive.google.com/file/d/14AMsMT5pdf3pO4bzzMjSbgGOO7uM8mTJ/view?usp=sharing
From that screen is when an SD card can be encrypted within the S7
So it is clrear to me that it was encrypted somewhere else, maybe someone took your sd card and encrypted it, anyway when you encrypt an sd card, you remember that you done it, because a password must be on the phone or you don't get the option to encrypt. Pict 5 is an SD card non encrypted inserted on the S7
So if you don't care about the files in there now, then format the SD card and you will be able to encrypt it on the S7 from scratch
Now if the S7 does not get you the format option, you can use windows to format the SD card, if windows cannot read the SD card then use Mini Tool Partion from your PC, delete the actual partition and create a new one.