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[thaive]

Before i start i did do a search through the posts here first and couldn't find anything of significant value, so thats why i'm starting a new one.

I was messing around with getting video working on my supercard(sd ver) and i had quite a large file out put (over 400 meg - all bells and whistles) for the movie which i then added the loader too - i put the file on my 512 card and edjected it out of my card reader.

I plugged it into my supercard an bam - cannot read sd card. now i locked it and it can tell me that its locked, i tried to load it up through gba version and  the menu flieckrs but then tells me the card isn't there (though none of my files are present).

i tried plugging it back into my reader and that also can't recognise it. i tested my otehr sd card and that works fine in both the reader and the sc card.

any thoughts as to whats happened? the card is only a week old (brought new from ebay in hk), the pins are clean and it ran perfectly until now.

any suggestions as to what might have happened? i've seen a few cf cards dieing but i couldn't remember an sd card one.

any help or suggestions would be much appreciated - cheers

"EDIT" - ok so i did find anotehr post on here about sd cards dieing, i ran the supercard check and i get this error:

SD/MMC error
error code:0b

[karurosu]

Put it again on your reader, see if windows can read it, as a last chance try running some recovery software

[zektor]

Something must have gone wrong with that very large file copy. I never corrupt cards, and I am thinking maybe it is because I use Total Commander for all of my file management. It has it's own internal copy mechanism, and does not use the built in Windows copy at all.

[karurosu]

wow, first time I hear of somebody that uses total commander instead of windows shell, I also do the same, and I never had any problem with any device, and I used quite a bunch (External HDDs, flash memory, Card readers, etc)

[zektor]

wow, first time I hear of somebody that uses total commander instead of windows shell, I also do the same, and I never had any problem with any device, and I used quite a bunch (External HDDs, flash memory, Card readers, etc)

Same here. I have been using it for years. I don't even know what Windows Explorer looks like anymore It's far superior. Fast and I absolutely cannot live without two pane file management. Maybe someday M$ will add something like it to an OS and charge you $100 more for the feature.

[thaive]

unfortunately the card is unreadable - i plug it in the card reader and it cannot even pick it up, i just plug in the card reader and then it picks up the drive, but of course it has nothing in it. (i tried tricking it so it woulds  read the card reader then placeing the card inside and running 3-4 diff recovery programs but they all went 'not responding' on me)

i think it frashizzled its nizzle

oh well, silly thing.

now i'm off to find this total commander you all speak so highly of, and i'm never puting movies on again lol

cheers all

[Lazybones]

You might have pulled the SD card out of the reader while a windows program still had it mounted. This will corrupt the file system on the card.

Go into ComputerManagement and under Disk administator see if the car shows up there as unformated. If so just reformat it with regular FAT (aka FAT 16)

Also depending how often you have moved files on and of the card it could have just died.. They do have a set number of Read/Write cycles before they are toast.. under nomal use this doesn't happen for a few years.

[zektor]

I read somewhere that the read/write cycles you speak of are in the millions. Chances are that if it is a quality flash card that it will last your lifetime. Ain't technology grand?

[thaive]

Go into ComputerManagement and under Disk administator see if the car shows up there as unformated. If so just reformat it with regular FAT (aka FAT 16)

even though it can't pick up the card i would like to give this a go

i go through: Start/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management - then i go into disk management


says its
connecting to logical disk manager service ....
still connecting .. please wait
connecting to logical disk manager service ....

and so on and so forth

i remove the sd card out fo the reader and it loads, i put hte sd card in and it doesn't

so i let it load and i put the sd card back in - i now have it reading the drive an it staves that there is no media in it.

i go into the drive properties, it tells me my reader is working fine

i go into volumes and i get the following:

disk: disk1
type: removable
Status: no m,edia
partition style: not applicable
capacity: 0MB
unallocated space: 0MB
reserved space: 0MB

[Lazybones]

says its
connecting to logical disk manager service ....
still connecting .. please wait
connecting to logical disk manager service ....

and so on and so forth

If it gets stuck like that only when the card is in then the card probably has more than formating problems.

[rocky]

If the card was new you should have a waranty on it, ask the guy you bought it from on ebay if you can return it to him or if you could get the warranty thing.

[thaive]

the person i brought it from took over am onth to send out, with no communication even though i emailed him many times over - he said it was shipping from sydney, and of course, it shipped from hong kong. lying bastard.

anywho i will still try to make this dang thing work - perhaps i should pick a religion and start praying

[thaive]

seeing as my card would not be picked up in explorer i tried formatting through dos


Select Start-Run and Type: CMD
FORMAT f: /FS:FAT

it told me to enter card and press enter .. i did ... silence

bugger

[thaive]

ok - a semi sorta breakthrough i guess ..

i let the disk management run through the waiting and please waiting for a good 20 minutes and it went though - now the drive is listed as unreadable and has the following properties

disk: disk1
type: removable
Status: unreadable
partition style: Master Boot Record (MBR)
capacity: 0MB
unallocated space: 0MB
reserved space: 0MB

now from a quick google or to the mbr is to do with the bios or the actual booting of the card ..

[thaive]

ok, so i attempted to format it though dos again - this time i left it runnig for a good hour

i managed to get the following:

Error in IOCTL call.

so yes