Pulling my hair out over a micro SD

Glenn Ervin GlennErvin at cableone.net
Mon Mar 22 19:21:45 EDT 2010


Also, if you cannot delete anything, maybe the little tab on the card is 
switched to protect.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JP Jamous" <JP at Jepelsy.com>
To: <r2gl at o2.co.uk>; "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 5:43 PM
Subject: RE: Pulling my hair out over a micro SD


Jeni,

Looks like Windows corrupted the NTFS. Although NTFS is better than FAT as
they say, It has major problems on the low level.

Try to put the card in the same Windows machine. Use the same profile you
used when you tried copying the files in the first place. Then, try to do a
complete format on the card without  enabling compression.

Right click on the drive letter and make sure under properties the security
tab has everyone in it. It is a Windows profile if you have XP Pro or any
other Windows greater than XP with an edition higher than home. Then, use
your phone or MP3 player to wipe the card.

I hope those help. If not, feel free to e-mail me off the list if the
members do not want to cover Windows on here. At this point, it looks like a
file system problem, but it could also be the device itself. You have to
isolate the possibilities one by one.

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Georgina Joyce
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 6:19 PM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Pulling my hair out over a micro SD

Hi

        I wondered if anyone could help?

        I've purchased a 16Gb micro SD Sandisk card for a MP3 player.  I
        purchased one with a SD adapter because I don't have a micro HC
        compliant reader.  I put the card in the player and was able to copy
        files onto the card via Windows.  But I got tired of copying my oggs
so
        stopped after copying about 6Gig.  But what ever I do now I can't
add
        any more.  Furthermore, I can't destroy it either.  If I run fdisk
and
        press 'o' for a new partition table the linux machine sits there for
a
        minute or two and returns me to the prompt.  Then when I list
devices
        'fdisk -l' it's vanished.  I've been reading forums about Sandisk
cards
        and my head is spinning.

        What logs or switches should I observe what is going on?

        I found ufiformat a low level format tool but it refuses to identify
the
        SD as a floppy, obviously because it's not.  So is there another
tool I
        need?

        BTW: There's a HP USB storage format tool that doesn't touch it
either
        on the Windows platform.  This is why I thought I've have better
luck on
        linux.

        I've tried mkfs.vfat again it returns me to the prompt after several
        minutes having not touched the file system on the card.

I could touch a test file and rm that file.  But If I attempt larger file
transfers the device craps out with read write errors and the device has
vanished.

        As Micro SD's don't have a locking switch how on earth do I get this
        thing formatted and start again?

        Something has had some effect as it's currupted something as the
mp3
        player just crashes when I attempt to use it with the card inserted.

        I'm waiting for a new card reader but I don't think that's going to
make
        any difference because I've tried to get my phone to format it.
My
        Victor Stream too.  None of them can touch this card.

        Well I have destroyed partition tables with dd before now but
wouldn't
        have a clue on whether this would help in this situation.

        Any help would really be appreciated.

        Yours frustrated.
        -- 

--
Gena


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