How to Verify File System?

[persistentone]

I have a Samsung DROID Charge X phone with Android kernel 2.6.35.7 installed. I apparently have some kind of file system corruption - possibly on the sdcard - as my Amazon MP3 player lost all of its playlists and is unable to play any files on the file system. Is there an Android application that will check the file system for errors and report those and attempt to repair them?

I installed a terminal application and I find an application in:

/system/bin/fsck_msdos

I have no idea if this is the utility, but I vaguely remember fsck from unix.

I do NOT have much unix background. I am extremely well versed in Windows and Windows command line utilities. So I really need to be walked through all of the steps here.

 

[persistentone]

I have a Samsung DROID Charge X phone with Android kernel 2.6.35.7 installed. I apparently have some kind of file system corruption - possibly on the sdcard - as my Amazon MP3 player lost all of its playlists and is unable to play any files on the file system. Is there an Android application that will check the file system for errors and report those and attempt to repair them?

I installed a terminal application and I find an application in:

/system/bin/fsck_msdos

I have no idea if this is the utility, but I vaguely remember fsck from unix.

I do NOT have much unix background. I am extremely well versed in Windows and Windows command line utilities. So I really need to be walked through all of the steps here.

Can I take the SDCard over to a Windows system and just run CHKDSK /R against it? If yes, am I limited to certain versions of Windows?

 

[persistentone]

I have a Samsung DROID Charge X phone with Android kernel 2.6.35.7 installed. I apparently have some kind of file system corruption - possibly on the sdcard - as my Amazon MP3 player lost all of its playlists and is unable to play any files on the file system. Is there an Android application that will check the file system for errors and report those and attempt to repair them?

I installed a terminal application and I find an application in:

/system/bin/fsck_msdos

I have no idea if this is the utility, but I vaguely remember fsck from unix.

I do NOT have much unix background. I am extremely well versed in Windows and Windows command line utilities. So I really need to be walked through all of the steps here.

So I took the SDCARD over to Windows and ran CHKDSK and that passes with no errors. Can I deduce then that the reason the Amazon MP3 application blew up and corrupted data is because the main flash of the phone is going bad?

Is there any method by which I can verify the integrity of the main flash memory of the phone?

 

[BigRedGonzo]

I hate to interrupt the conversation with yourself.

If you get no errors on the PC when checking the card, try doing this. Put the card back in the PC. Create a local directory on the PC and copy the entire contents of the card to the directory. Take the care out and place it in the phone and have the phone format the card. If you version of Android doesn't allow this, then format it on the computer making sure to use the same file system as it was previously formatted to. Copy the files back onto the card from the backup on the PC. Try it out again. I have had this work before.

Hope this helps,
BigRedGonzo

 

[persistentone]

I hate to interrupt the conversation with yourself.

If you get no errors on the PC when checking the card, try doing this. Put the card back in the PC. Create a local directory on the PC and copy the entire contents of the card to the directory. Take the care out and place it in the phone and have the phone format the card. If you version of Android doesn't allow this, then format it on the computer making sure to use the same file system as it was previously formatted to. Copy the files back onto the card from the backup on the PC. Try it out again. I have had this work before.

Hope this helps,
BigRedGonzo

Seems very risky but I can try it. Can you give me a theory about why this should work? Since the SDCARD is a FAT32 file system, it cannot hold attributes on individual files, so it couldn't be the case that some file on that file system was improperly attributed or held in a lock, etc?

 

[persistentone]

I hate to interrupt the conversation with yourself.

If you get no errors on the PC when checking the card, try doing this. Put the card back in the PC. Create a local directory on the PC and copy the entire contents of the card to the directory. Take the care out and place it in the phone and have the phone format the card. If you version of Android doesn't allow this, then format it on the computer making sure to use the same file system as it was previously formatted to. Copy the files back onto the card from the backup on the PC. Try it out again. I have had this work before.

Hope this helps,
BigRedGonzo

Also, it might help here if you described the symptoms you were seeing prior to trying this corrective procedure.