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Dead SD card
Freedom Kira:
So I know this is completely unrelated to BakaBT, but since there are a few of you people who are good with electronics, I figured I might as well ask and see if you guys can help more than Google can.
I removed the MicroSD card (Kingston 2GB) from my cell phone (Nokia 6300/6301) to do some maintenance on it. As far as I know it's hot-swappable, and hot swapping never caused any problems before.
Anyway, when I tried to put it back in, the phone picked up the card but couldn't read it. It ended up freezing up the phone for a minute or so, and then when I regained control, I tried to open it and it gave me the error message "card not formatted, operation failed" or something similar.
So then I took the card out of the phone and put it in an adapter (Sandisk MicroSD/SDHC to SD/SDHC), and shoved that into a USB card reader (Rosewill). The computer (XP SP3) could not detect the card, but recognized that the reader was there, thus giving the error message "Please insert a disk into drive H:".
After that, I took the card back out, and put it back into the phone. At this point, the phone did not detect the card at all. I turned the phone off and back on, and the card showed up again, but it still can't be read.
I then took the card and shoved it back into the adapter, and this time put that card into my laptop (XP SP3). For the heck of it I also slid the write lock on the adapter into the locked position. Explorer froze for a good two minutes. Regained control, opened "My Computer" and tried to access the card. Froze Explorer for another 30 seconds, and then an error message pops up saying that the disk cannot be accessed because of an I/O device error. Tried a few times, no luck.
At this point I've kinda given up on the card, but I still want the data that is stored on it. I have another MicroSD card lying around that I can use, but all the useful data on the dead card I can't seem to access.
So here's my question. Does anyone know a way to force read/mount a dead MicroSD card? I've run into results on Google about people trying to recover actual functionality of the card by reformatting it, but at this point I just want the data on it, so of course I don't want to reformat it.
I've been lucky enough to recover data from a dead HDD and even restore its functionality, but a flash card is different...
I haven't tried anything on Linux yet, because, to be honest, I'm not sure what to do...
I have access to:
A desktop computer running XP SP3 as mentioned above, with a P4 3.0GHz, 4GB RAM, 200GB/320GB HDDs.
A desktop computer running XP SP3 (another one), AMD (not sure about the processor but it's older), 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD.
An HP laptop (model 6830s) with an SD card reader, running XP SP3 as mentioned above, Core 2 Duo P8400, 3GB RAM, 250GB HDD. It's got dual boot with Ubuntu 9.10, which I haven't bothered to keep updated because I prefer running Ubuntu in a virtual machine in XP, which is kept updated with 10.04.
A desktop computer running Ubuntu 10.04, which I use for seeding, Intel Atom (not sure about the exact model), 1GB RAM, 500GB HDD aside from four RAID drives used for storage.
An old desktop computer I use at work, runs a Celeron. Not sure of the RAM, but HDD is 80GB and it's a Dell. Runs Ubuntu 10.04.
Soryon:
Im thinking this shoulda been in the technology threads.
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: Soryon on July 09, 2010, 04:08:19 AM ---Im thinking this shoulda been in the technology threads.
--- End quote ---
Hmm, it kinda fits into both... I dunno. Frustration got the better of me this time, heh.
Southrop:
Moved to Technology.
vuzedome:
Format it, it's the only way. Then use a disk recovery tool to get the data back.
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