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Root SD Card dead?

Markhypnos

Markhypnos

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Just downloded GV 2.2 went to nadroid in recovery, cant. Rebooted phone, says sd blank. Tried sd in windows only allows reformat.

Is it dead? Anyway of recovering anything? Have nandroids of GV 1.6 from a month ago, but seems the rest are gone :(
 
Have a look for thread I started with the title "weird everything wiped" or something.

Click my name and look at threads created. This happened to me. Theres also link to recovery software in there
 
Sometimes they do get corrupted if they are disconnected to fast or something. Would be fine after a reformat usually but then you loose everything... stink...
 
Markhypnos said:
Just downloded GV 2.2 went to nadroid in recovery, cant. Rebooted phone, says sd blank. Tried sd in windows only allows reformat.

Is it dead? Anyway of recovering anything? Have nandroids of GV 1.6 from a month ago, but seems the rest are gone :(
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Just a word of caution! A bad SD card once sent me into a bootloop, the only solution was a new card, an RUU and a re-root. If you can work on the card on your PC my advice is do so. Take your card out of your phone now!
 
SUroot said:
Have a look for thread I started with the title "weird everything wiped" or something.

Click my name and look at threads created. This happened to me. Theres also link to recovery software in there
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Tried handy recovery "No valid supported file system on the volume"
 
Whole file system may be corrupt then. Don't think you will easily recover anything
 
Markhypnos said:
Tried handy recovery "No valid supported file system on the volume"
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I have a hunch your card be deceased :(. Try making a gold card with it, it will either perform a miracle, rewrite the boot sector, making your card undeceased, or it'll prove that your card isn't undeceased and is in fact after all deceased.

The easier 3rd option; Time to buy a new card!
 
SUroot said:
Whole file system may be corrupt then. Don't think you will easily recover anything
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:(

InfernalByte said:
I have a hunch your card be deceased :(. Try making a gold card with it, it will either perform a miracle, rewrite the boot sector, making your card undeceased, or it'll prove that your card isn't undeceased and is in fact after all deceased.

The easier 3rd option; Time to buy a new card!
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Dont think I can even do that windows just asks to reformat it.
 
Tried to format it, nothing its dead.

Thankfully didnt lose too many photos or anything important, have now restored GV1.6 from a month or so ago and updated to 2.2 from there.

Pain in the arse but ive had worse data loss. Only got a 4gb SD card now so may encourage me to backup to the computer more often.
 
Markhypnos said:
Tried to format it, nothing its dead.

Thankfully didnt lose too many photos or anything important, have now restored GV1.6 from a month or so ago and updated to 2.2 from there.

Pain in the arse but ive had worse data loss. Only got a 4gb SD card now so may encourage me to backup to the computer more often.
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If all is lost you may as well try making a gold card with it, I would be interested to see if it will recover lost files, in theory it will.
 
I mentioned earlier that I wasn't able to format it, so Infernal got me confused with trying to make a goldcard :o

I have a hunch that not ejecting it properly in windows may have caused it to corrupt.
 
Markhypnos said:
I mentioned earlier that I wasn't able to format it, so Infernal got me confused with trying to make a goldcard :o

I have a hunch that not ejecting it properly in windows may have caused it to corrupt.
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I haveney got anything wrong. Your card isney workin and I think you've lost data retreaval on it. If devices don't recognise the card the boot sector is corrupt in some way, making a goldcard will re-write the boot sector, to make the card readable again. I think I'm right when I say that you don't even need the specific card image, any boot sector image from the same size card will do. Remember that the object is to make the card work, not make a gold card!
 
InfernalByte said:
I haveney got anything wrong. Your card isney workin and I think you've lost data retreaval on it. If devices don't recognise the card the boot sector is corrupt in some way, making a goldcard will re-write the boot sector, to make the card readable again. I think I'm right when I say that you don't even need the specific card image, any boot sector image from the same size card will do. Remember that the object is to make the card work, not make a gold card!
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So how do I do this? Went through the goldcard steps but one is to format.
 
I've had this scenario a few times now (which eventually persuaded me to buy a new SD card), but each time I was able to recover the card by formatting using a digital camera (my Panasonic FZ28 worked; however, my Canon compact refused to format it too).

Failing that I was going to try the following software which is supposed to perform an optimised card format:

SD Formatter 3.0 for SD/SDHC/SDXC - SD Association

If nothing else, perhaps this might help recover the card as a spare...

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