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Help Lollipop 5.1 broke my SD card

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lebatte

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I just updated to Lollipop 5.1 on T-Mobile, and afterward, I got a message saying my SD card is damaged and that it needs to be formatted. Great. So I followed the prompt and formatted the card. But after that, it still said it was damaged. So I put it into my computer and tried to format it to exFAT there, but even that doesn't work. It says "Unmounting disk; Couldn't modify partition map; Operation failed..."

I lost all of my data, and my card was broken by this update. This was an expensive SD card. Not sure what to do now.

Is there a way I'm not aware of to repair the SD card? Or is there somewhere I can get a refund for it?
 
ummmm, apparently, you did not remove the SD card before you allowed the update to go thru??

Caveat Emptor.
 
AZgl1500 said:
ummmm, apparently, you did not remove the SD card before you allowed the update to go thru??

Caveat Emptor.
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No, I left it in. Does it tell you to remove your SD card first?

I left my phone in my pocket while it updated, too. If my phone blew up and burned my leg, would that be my fault too?
 
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just that a lot of reading about updating to any new OS, will tell us that it is best to remove the SD cards first.
Then, if something goes wrong, it cannot touch the SD card.
 
AZgl1500 said:
just that a lot of reading about updating to any new OS, will tell us that it is best to remove the SD cards first.
Then, if something goes wrong, it cannot touch the SD card.
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I've updated my OS several times and this has never happened. If the OS update doesn't tell me to remove my SD card, why would I wonder if I have to? It seems totally unrelated. And nothing "went wrong" with the update aside from my SD card being broken. The phone itself is fine.
AMOCO said:
All AZgl1500 was/is trying to help you,No need to be a smart ass,Because your sd card took a crap.
Please be nice.
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I'm not sure if you know latin, but "caveat emptor" amounts to "it's your fault." Someone who was trying to help would've attempted to answer my questions instead of just showing up and telling me it's my fault. Sorry, I just don't think it falls on me to assume an OS update will break my $50 SD card.
 
I will bite my tongue, it means "buyer beware", not "your fault".

Any time you go to make a big change to a computer ( and a cellphone is a computer ) , you must, okay "should" make preparations for failure.
If you don't, and something goes to hell in a hand basket, you are screwed.

Win10 updated two of my computers.... I used a clone image program and made complete disk images of both of those computers.
Neither of the backups was needed, BUT that is NOT the point.

I was prepared for Dooms Day, and you weren't. So don't go taking out any crap on me for just explaining that "you should have made preparations" for Dooms Day.

Now, go buy a new SD card and move on.
 
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