Suddenly my SD card stopped being recognized.
Cannot mount it, cannot format it under CWM recovery
I put in my laptop running Win 7 and I can see everything is on it. Still cannot format it even on Win 7. It says it is write protected.
Any ideas ?
Download Panasonic SD Formatter,
format with that.
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Tried with Panansonic card formatter, but same message: Write protected !!
L.E.: Tried with another SD card .... everything is ok
The previous one is always reported as Write-protected no matter what I'm doing (valid while in Win7, 'cause the phone does not see it at all).
Anyway at least I still have my data on it and can read it on my laptop and transfer it on the other card.
If anyone has any idea on how to unblock the SD card will have a big THX from me
are you talking about an SD card or a MircoSD card?
*Some* SD cards come with a "lock" toggle on the card.
If you are using a standard SD card is the toggle in the lock position?
greg2126 said:
are you talking about an SD card or a MircoSD card?
*Some* SD cards come with a "lock" toggle on the card.
If you are using a standard SD card is the toggle in the lock position?
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Talking about micro SD card, of course.
I know about that little lock toggle on the SD cards
bubuleanu said:
Talking about micro SD card, of course.
I know about that little lock toggle on the SD cards
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Have you got it working yet? Since when did it stop working, and what did you do?
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markj338 said:
Have you got it working yet? Since when did it stop working, and what did you do?
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as stated in my first post, it stopped working suddenly, in the middle of the day.
It said "No SD card mounted" ... couldn't format it, nor re-mount it on the phone
I put it in my laptop running Win 7 and I could see all the data inside, can copy it, but cannot delete anything because it says it is write-protected.
Resolution ? changed the card with a new one .....then I just copied part of the data from the old one to new card.
Alright, that's weird, I hope no one else has this problem
I would hate this to happen to me, I bought a faster sdcard
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You could try formatting it using diskpart in windows 7 or gparted in Linux
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chemist80 said:
You could try formatting it using diskpart in windows 7 or gparted in Linux
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since I already bought a new card, which is working, and the old one still can access it's data, I see no reason to try and format it now.
At least knowing that it is blocked as write protected I'm sure that nothing can delete the data stored on it :laugh:
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Hi all. I've been doing some research on this for some time now, and I haven't been able to find anything of relevance.
I have a 32GB Kingston microSD card that my phone cannot read. I get the following error:
"Bank External SD card
SD card blank or has unsupported file system."
When I try to format it with my Galaxy [2.2 legit froyo], it will still not let me mount it. Now this SD card may be FAT32 or it maybe NTFS - I'm not too sure, but which ever one it is, my phone doesn't like!
I don't know how to access this memory card via my computer, I was wondering if there was a fix for this or if there was a program on the Market that will allow me to format back and forth with NFTS and FAT32 through my phone?
I've tried everything, whatever I do just does no work, so please don't be telling me to make sure I've put it in correctly or take it out and put it back in because they simply do not work.
Thanks in advance...
No? Bump... Please help me, I hate having no space on my phone!
Try using a card reader and see if shows up on the computer. Sd formatter has worked for me before to bring an unresponsive card back. Do a google for sd formatter.
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mikuni_03 said:
Try using a card reader and see if shows up on the computer. Sd formatter has worked for me before to bring an unresponsive card back. Do a google for sd formatter.
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How can I go about actually connecting my microSD to the computer..?
You will need an sd card reader and the adapter for the micro sd.
SD cards are so irritating. I had a nice 8 gig card and i tried to connect it to my pc to transfer a file.... Long story short, it corrupted and it screws up the phone unless u remove it..
I have a 2 gig card in there now but i cant even insert the card to format it in windows cause windows recognizes the card, but will not format it. ugh.
Gorilla* said:
SD cards are so irritating. I had a nice 8 gig card and i tried to connect it to my pc to transfer a file.... Long story short, it corrupted and it screws up the phone unless u remove it..
I have a 2 gig card in there now but i cant even insert the card to format it in windows cause windows recognizes the card, but will not format it. ugh.
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do you unmount them before removing them form you device or pc?
nope ......
Gorilla* said:
nope ......
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That could be it I've yet to have a problem with any of my SD cards, and I always unmount/safely remove hardware. Who knows, you might just have bad luck with SD cards lol
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nope ......
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think of it this way. if the sd card is mounted there is power going to it. if you dont unmount sometimes the power can arc over the contacts. its like if you were working on your pc and decided to pull the RAM right out when the pc was on.
well that was a hard lesson i had to learn i guess.
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Hi,
i'm having serious problems with the SD card on my Milestone. Let me explain :
1. If i try any generic app which tries to access the SD card, it says it's not there (Camera says "Please insert a SD card", other apps say similar warnings).And i can't use "update.zip" on recovery mode
2. Settings>SD card & phone storage says Unavailable to everything, like if the card is not mounted.
3. Recovery mode say "can't open /cache/recovery/command"
Any ideas ?
Try cleaning the gold contacts on the sd card an the sd card holder...
Also try seeing if the sd card works on an external sd card reader
Hope this helps
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qaz2453 said:
Try cleaning the gold contacts on the sd card an the sd card holder...
Also try seeing if the sd card works on an external sd card reader
Hope this helps
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My sdcard works fine on the card reader. I've tried so many times before: (Does anyone know the milestone with fastboot?
minhkhue90 said:
My card works fine on the card reader. I've tried so many times before: (Does anyone know the milestone with fastboot?
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If it works fine in a card reader, it might be the card slot in the Milestone that might be broken.
skadude66 said:
If it works fine in a card reader, it might be the card slot in the Milestone that might be broken.
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Have you ever been brick sdcard? Also possible that so many people use android brick sdcard failed. I think the milestone card reader works fine: (
I would recommend taking your SD card, backing up the contents to your computer, and then doing a non-quick format on the SD card. There's something corrupt about the filesystem of the SD card that the phone does not like, and a format of the SD card should repair things again.
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I would recommend taking your SD card, backing up the contents to your computer, and then doing a non-quick format on the SD card. There's something corrupt about the filesystem of the SD card that the phone does not like, and a format of the SD card should repair things again.
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I formatted the card several times but to no avail. It does not help me format! : (
tks
minhkhue90 said:
I formatted the card several times but to no avail. It does not help me format! : (
tks
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What format are you putting it in? If it is in NTFS, I believe it will not recognize it.
tghockey07 said:
What format are you putting it in? If it is in NTFS, I believe it will not recognize it.
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No,i format with Fat32. It still not recognize Milestone don't have bootloader. If have it,i can fix
One month ago i bought on ebay a 32 gb Mirco Sd, i put it in my phone which told me to format it: i did it and than it stopped to be shown in both phone or computer.
Ok, i thought i had bought a fake and i started again to use my old 16 gb Micro SD i've had for one year.
This morning i switched on my phone phone and it told me that it had a problem with the Micro SD and i needed to format it; i did it and since than it happend the same happend with the one i thought was a fake (now i'm not so sure).
It stopped to work anywhere!
Do anybody have any ideas to solve this?
clean the contacts on the card and the phone. Make sure your computer's reader can handle that size of sdcard. the computer usually can, but the reader may have a problem. Verify that it is formatted as FAT.
I cleaned the contacts and now my phone sees the micro sd: it only says "empty sd stick or unsupported filesystem", but in the memory settings i can't mount it and if i try to format it nothing happens.
The pc still doesn't see the sd, i've even tried with 2 different readers
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Do u remove sd crd often, if u do then pls go to settings-sdcarf and storage and unmount your sd card or it will get corrupted. Its an amdroid problem. The rest part where it doesnt work anymore is wierd.
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I remove it sometimes, but not that often, however i can't do that, because so far it still can't be mounted nor formatted and also it can be seen by the computer
Nobody can help me?
sciacallo010 said:
Nobody can help me?
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Buy a new card.
AdamOutler said:
Buy a new card.
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I don't like so much that solution, I mean, I spent 60€ for this sd and i'd prefer to have it working
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sciacallo010 said:
One month ago i bought on ebay a 32 gb Mirco Sd, i put it in my phone which told me to format it: i did it and than it stopped to be shown in both phone or computer.
Ok, i thought i had bought a fake and i started again to use my old 16 gb Micro SD i've had for one year.
This morning i switched on my phone phone and it told me that it had a problem with the Micro SD and i needed to format it; i did it and since than it happend the same happend with the one i thought was a fake (now i'm not so sure).
It stopped to work anywhere!
Do anybody have any ideas to solve this?
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I used to have this issue with my old sdcard. If you can get the computer to read it first try this :https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/. If that doesnt work try some software called partition magic and use it to format the card. This might not work for you but i was having the same issue as you and it did for me.
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I used to have this issue with my old sdcard. If you can get the computer to read it first try this :https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/. If that doesnt work try some software called partition magic and use it to format the card. This might not work for you but i was having the same issue as you and it did for me.
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Thanks mate!
Do you have any ideas to make the computer read the sd?
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sciacallo010 said:
Thanks mate!
Do you have any ideas to make the computer read the sd?
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No probs, and the only way i could get the computer to read the sd card was using a card reader, multiple reboots, removing and re-inserting the sd card until it decided it wanted to be read....as you might imagine it took a while, good luck
I reformatted my SD card that was in my phone a while back but the problem now is that is my phone will not read the SD card. It only shows the internal memory.
Maybe the SD card is damaged? Have you tried it on a different device?
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Are you sure u formatted it to fat32?
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I tried it in my Tablet and it doesnt show the sd card either. But when i use the SD card adapter for my computer it reads it
HAYDENB said:
I tried it in my Tablet and it doesnt show the sd card either. But when i use the SD card adapter for my computer it reads it
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Which file system did you format it to? ie: fat32?
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HAYDENB said:
I tried it in my Tablet and it doesnt show the sd card either. But when i use the SD card adapter for my computer it reads it
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I am going to reformat it again using my computer this time
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I tried it in my Tablet and it doesnt show the sd card either. But when i use the SD card adapter for my computer it reads it
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Okay, most likely somehow your format got interrupted so I suggest to try formatting it again. If that doesn't work Mount it to a PC right click the SD cards partition and click properties then scan disk and post error results if there are any.
EDIT: sorry, didn't notice your upper post.
Not formatting through a pc might've been the problem all along, keep us posted.
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YeledKaki said:
Okay, most likely somehow your format got interrupted so I suggest to try formatting it again. If that doesn't work Mount it to a PC right click the SD cards partition and click properties then scan disk and post error results if there are any.
EDIT: sorry, didn't notice your upper post.
Not formatting through a pc might've been the problem all along, keep us posted.
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I used my pc to format the card and it reads the sd card. Thanks guys
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YeledKaki said:
Okay, most likely somehow your format got interrupted so I suggest to try formatting it again. If that doesn't work Mount it to a PC right click the SD cards partition and click properties then scan disk and post error results if there are any.
EDIT: sorry, didn't notice your upper post.
Not formatting through a pc might've been the problem all along, keep us posted.
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I used my pc to format the card and it reads the sd card. Thanks guys
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I'm glad it worked out for you eventually .
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