Oh crap!

[angldvl81]

Dropped my phone, didnt power off but somehow managed to unmount my sd card. When i go to settings to mount it, it says my card is damaged. Am i screwed or is there something i can do?

My notification window is saying i may have to reformat it

 

[NightAngel79]

Moved to computer section

Can you access it when plugged into a computer? If not then run Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File and Disk Recovery - Free Download on a pc and recover everything you can, then re-format it. If that doesn't work (it should) then its done for i think

 

[johnlgalt]

You can try to see if the data is recoverable using a data recovery tool, such as Pandroa Recovery - Free Pandora File Recovery - Find and recover deleted files of any type.

you'll need to insert it into your computer using a car reader for this, though. I'm not sure if it will mount while in the phone since the phone is not recognizing it....

 

[9to5cynic]

You could also try AccessData's FTK imager. Pretty nice. I'm guessing it is basically the same as what John suggested.

 

[BabyBlues]

I have no useful information but I hope it works out for you. That sucks when the card takes a crap.

 

[angldvl81]

Thx for the info guys, however i went into recovery amd tried to reformat remount amd it wouldnt work so i think its done for but i will try thoae when i get home

 

[johnlgalt]

Q: Was it the original SDCard that came with the phone, and what is its capacity?

 

[NightAngel79]

Thx for the info guys, however i went into recovery amd tried to reformat remount amd it wouldnt work so i think its done for but i will try thoae when i get home

Definitely try it in computer

 

[angldvl81]

Q: Was it the original SDCard that came with the phone, and what is its capacity?

A: yes it was, 32GB

 

[johnlgalt]

I had a beast of a time trying to format my 16 GB Card that came with my DROID. just because it failed doesn't necessarily mean that the card is bad.

Like NA said - try it in a compute (and try recovering files before you try formatting.

 

[angldvl81]

I had a beast of a time trying to format my 16 GB Card that came with my DROID. just because it failed doesn't necessarily mean that the card is bad.

Like NA said - try it in a compute (and try recovering files before you try formatting.

I definitely will try. Thx!

 

[NightAngel79]

I definitely will try. Thx!

Who's yo daddy





(ok, THAT sounded weird, lol)

 

[angldvl81]

Who's yo daddy





(ok, THAT sounded weird, lol)

Haha thats not the first (or last) time somethig weird has been said by us!

 

[NightAngel79]

^LMFAO!!! True dat sister~!~!

 

[angldvl81]

Wait.... Do i have to be your sister?? That could make some weird things said even weirder

 

[BabyBlues]

Daddy and sister?? I'm beginning to wonder where the 2 of you originated from.

 

[angldvl81]

Hahahahahaha i wont say where im originally from then!

 

[BabyBlues]

Haha! It's okay. We'd like you anyway

 

[angldvl81]

*claps hands

Yay! Orginally from WV, but AZ for last 10 years

(awaits all the jokes)

 

[BabyBlues]

Nah. Got them out of the way prior to knowing. Lol.

 

[johnlgalt]

I spent a week in WV in June - I friggin' loved it up there.

of course, I've been in Middle GA for 35 years, so....

 

[angldvl81]

I spent a week in WV in June - I friggin' loved it up there.

of course, I've been in Middle GA for 35 years, so....

Where in wv?

 

[angldvl81]

So after putting the card in a computer, it read it as a 30MB card vs 32GB and would not format.... Running an 8GB for now til I get another card

 

[johnlgalt]

Where in wv?

Institute - (WVSU)

So after putting the card in a computer, it read it as a 30MB card vs 32GB and would not format.... Running an 8GB for now til I get another card

Ummm, that's actually normal.

Used by memory makers, GB is normal powers of 10 used to define something - so a 32 GB Micro SDCard is 32,000,000,000 bytes.

however, Bytes are actually calculated base 2, meaning powers of 2. So, 1 GB is actually 1,073,741,824 bytes long. Thus, 32 GB is really 34,359,738,368 bytes, not 32,000,000,000.

And, if you divide 32,000,000,000 by 1,073,741,824 you get 29.8023223876953125 actual GB, which rounds up to 30 GB.

It's the same with all sorts of magnetic media - USB Flash devices, hard drives and SSDs, etc.

 

[angldvl81]

It's reading MB though, not GB.