Help SD Card Access/Unmount Issues

[tacullen]

My phone shows SD card "read-only or not mounted" but it seems to be mounted b/c I can see files in Astro, but apps can't access the SD to write or play audiobooks, music, etc. I also cannot "unmount" using the phone, and running myBackup fails. I took the card to my pc and the card mounts fine as a disk drive and I backed it up, thinking I would format the SD, but the phone won't format because it is mounted and won't unmount. Should I format in the PC and what if so what file system do I choose?

 

[tacullen]

My phone shows the SD card as "read-only or not mounted" and it seems to be mounted b/c I can see files in Astro, but apps can't access the SD to write or play audiobooks, music, etc. But I also cannot "unmount" using the phone, and running myBackup fails. I took the card to my pc and the card mounts fine as a disk drive and I backed up the files, but since the phone won't format it because it is mounted and it won't unmount, should I format in the PC and if so what file system do I use?

 

[sdrawkcab25]

Format it in the PC to fat32 preferably.

 

[melcher70]

I'm having this problem too.. I have a mac and just ran disk utility repair to see if that helps.. so far so good. I also have the SD card backed up on my Mac. Question is, if I do need to reformat, can I just copy the backed up data to the reformatted card, and expect everything to work fine?