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Can you help with micro SD card

I was wondering if another Desire user could help me out. I had a bit of a problem with my phone and had to switch it off and remove my micro sd card, but when I plugged it into my computer with an adapter there was no useful information on it for me to get back. This either means that this is standard and the micro sd card can only be read properly when the sd card is in the Desire and then plugged in. Or that my sd card has an error.
Could someone please help with this and let me know what files they can see when they put their micro sd card into their computer directly.
The picture is what I see.

Run Checkdisk (chkdsk) then file restoring software, to recover your files.
Then Re-format the card. Happened to me once, everything got meesed up. Re-format helped.

nagypapi said:
Run Checkdisk (chkdsk) or other file restoring software, to recover your files.
Then Re-format the card. Happened to me once, everything got meesed up. Re-format helped.
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Checkdisk isnt a recovery software, but I ran it already, and I tried the recovery program but I cant seem to be recovering anything but more useless information, I dont know if the data is lost or if its still on the card but only readable through the desire itself.
Can someone please do what I said in my original post and let me know what they can see with just the micro sd card in the computer
Thanks

CHKDSK is scans for harddrive damage and it DOES recover the files, but with the .chk extension.
These are the files on my SD:
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If thats the case then thanks for letting me know.
I ran chkdsk like this.
Plugged in the micro sd card in the computer, went to my computer and right clicked the SD card, clicked properties, went to tools and then error checking.
Selected both the check for system errors and scan for bad sectors. Started it and 2 seconds later it closes and doesnt actually do anything taht I can see. I go back to the sd card and still nothing has changed.
Where should it be putting the recovered .chk files?

Cant wond scan via windows, so i did it by cmd. Said it couldnt convert threads as there is no room. So I'm guessing I have to format it first. I hope this doesnt get rid of my files permanently, I didnt have any other copies of my contacts or anything, and phone is completely broken.

HELP Lost all SD card content!

Here's what happened, my phone froze for a few seconds so I hit the power/standby button and it didn't do anything. Waited for a few more seconds then it went back to the home screen and then turned off a split second later. I turned the phone back on and it said "Blank SD card" in the notifications bar. This so damn frustrating I've restarted a few times, mounted, taken th card out and put it back in...I'm at a loss as of what to do. Halp pleez?!?! Thank you!

Try and put the sd card into something else other than the phone, if the data is still missing I would say either your phone had a virus or is perhaps faulty..
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pricey2009 said:
Try and put the sd card into something else other than the phone, if the data is still missing I would say either your phone had a virus or is perhaps faulty..
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At work so I don't have access to a computer. Should all the content show up if the SD card is cool? How do you get rid of phone viruses? Factory reset I assume...? I hope I don't have to go through that hassle.

Erikwithafro said:
At work so I don't have access to a computer. Should all the content show up if the SD card is cool? How do you get rid of phone viruses? Factory reset I assume...? I hope I don't have to go through that hassle.
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Hmm...The phone probably isn't faulty,it's probably the MicroSD card. I've had a debranded 4gig MicroSD that wiped itself while I was uploading songs to it...If it's wiped buy another one,pref. sandisk

Fokezy said:
Hmm...The phone probably isn't faulty,it's probably the MicroSD card. I've had a debranded 4gig MicroSD that wiped itself while I was uploading songs to it...If it's wiped buy another one,pref. sandisk
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I have a 32gb sandisk and it had all my emulator games with the save data. Bah I have no clue how this happened, its really pissed me off losing all that...

Tried plugging the phone in to a computer, and I can't turn on USB connection. Also tried plugging in the SD card with a USB adapter stick and it didn't come up either. Is this memory card boned?

Try a Linux distro, it'll have a better chance of recognising the card even if it's faulty, you might have to make a live cd if you don't already run a Linux distro.
Failing that you could try a program like Recuva for Windows

Just plugged in another SD card I have and it worked...seems like my 32g one is screwed, god dammit!!!!!! RAAAAGE!!!!! Taking this thing back...fuuuuuuuu

I was copying some mp3`s to my phone and the phone froze and i had to pull the battery, my 16gb micro sd, was totally dead, I rang Amazon sent me out a replacement even before i returned the faulty one, now that is good service.
John.

Are you able to mount the card? If not and the phone states it's damaged, you could try this:
forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4112485&postcount=9
As it's stating it's blank, that may not help, but recovery might. It worked for my card when the phone decided to have a hissy fit and 'damaged'.

If you just need to recover the files and the microsd actually still works, but no files show, try the free file recovery in the link below, RecoveRX, just enter anything for you email address if you dont want spam.
But remember to write protect your microsd to sdcard adaptor so you dont overwrite any files, or they will be gone for good.
http://www.transcend.nl/Support/DLCenter/DLSoftware.asp?ID=59&Func1No=3&Func2No=205

I'm getting the notification "SD card blank or has unsupported file system. What in the world does that mean? This is getting more and more complicated...ugh. And I have no clue how to write the SD card stuff. Also, some files that are gray with the android logo and an SD card logo are showing up when I open my settings and go to applications then see all. I am so damn confused haha.

Erikwithafro said:
I'm getting the notification "SD card blank or has unsupported file system. What in the world does that mean? This is getting more and more complicated...ugh. And I have no clue how to write the SD card stuff. Also, some files that are gray with the android logo and an SD card logo are showing up when I open my settings and go to applications then see all. I am so damn confused haha.
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The android logo and sd card symbol showing instead of the app's icon means that the app was installed on your sd card, so those apps no longer exist (I think their data is stored in internal memory though, so probably try reinstalling them). Android has an annoying habit of auto-installing some apps to sd

Erikwithafro said:
I'm getting the notification "SD card blank or has unsupported file system. What in the world does that mean? This is getting more and more complicated...ugh. And I have no clue how to write the SD card stuff. Also, some files that are gray with the android logo and an SD card logo are showing up when I open my settings and go to applications then see all. I am so damn confused haha.
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Gray android sd card logo has been explained ; the unsupported file system probably means your sd cards file system messed up when your phone bugged out for a second or two ; you're going have to format it which means wiping all data of it completely ; format to fat 32 - can be done through my computer and right clicking on the memory card in windows ; if this fails download a sd card formatter... Before you do this though try recovering the files via your computer as suggested before.

Maybe you can recover it... What essentially happened was that your phone lost power while it was writing to the sd card. That happens with all devices, that's why every game warns not to turn off the console while saving
Sent from my Xperia Play

Thank you guys for all the suggestions, it means a lot.
Tried recovering, but nothing is on the SD card to recover anymore...so lame. Also tried reformatting after that and it said "windows cannot complete the format". Damn, I'm taking this back and getting a new one. This is ridiculous and frustrating beyond belief...Anywayyyyyyyyy thanks a bunch for the help and tips folks, hopefully I can get a new SD card without any problems. It's been about 6 months since I bought this one, so we'll see........

It would be even more frustrating if they said they cannot give you a new SD card. Hah...

Happened to me with a "Sandisk" 16 GB class 6 bought on eBay. Never again!
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[Q] sd card issue galaxy y

my 2gb sd card was working fine..
i dont know what happened but i copied some apk files on the sd card using pc (usb cable)
but when i unplugged... the files were missing..
i tried several times but still the files are not getting copied
also i of the files i copied was appearing but gave parse error
and it is not being removed.. ie when i delete it and connect to pc..
it appears again..
please help

Khizar Amin said:
my 2gb sd card was working fine..
i dont know what happened but i copied some apk files on the sd card using pc (usb cable)
but when i unplugged... the files were missing..
i tried several times but still the files are not getting copied
also i of the files i copied was appearing but gave parse error
and it is not being removed.. ie when i delete it and connect to pc..
it appears again..
please help
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reformat your sd card to fat32 using your phone or via pc

it seems that your sdcard is corrupt. try to reformat it

SD card removed unexpe.....!! EROR!!!
I hav SGY, and it gives an error "SD card remove"..
plz help me.

read this one..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1576012

That error can be solved if you just update your firmware.(2.3.6.)
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Please ask questions here. Thanks
-Techno

BLANK SDcard.. HELP!!!
plzz help me!!
my 4gb sd card cant recognize anymore in any devices even in pc..
i dont know why??!!
but when i inserted it in my sgy, a notification shows up:
blank sd card.. has an unsupported files something like that and it suggests to format it..
but after sgy formats my sd card.. nothing change
a notification shows up again and so on..
i dont know wat to do.. i cant use my sd card anymore
i hope someone there could help me
plzz, any solution could solve my promblem
thanks..

I.M.G said:
plzz help me!!
my 4gb sd card cant recognize anymore in any devices even in pc..
i dont know why??!!
but when i inserted it in my sgy, a notification shows up:
blank sd card.. has an unsupported files something like that and it suggests to format it..
but after sgy formats my sd card.. nothing change
a notification shows up again and so on..
i dont know wat to do.. i cant use my sd card anymore
i hope someone there could help me
plzz, any solution could solve my promblem
thanks..
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try to format it to fat32
don't use fast formatting

leodasal2 said:
try to format it to fat32
don't use fast formatting
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how could i format it to fat32
the computer cant recognize my sd card..
it say INSERT DISK..

I.M.G said:
how could i format it to fat32
the computer cant recognize my sd card..
it say INSERT DISK..
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right click then format
choose fat32

I.M.G said:
how could i format it to fat32
the computer cant recognize my sd card..
it say INSERT DISK..
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try it with minitool for windows

That happened to me
Khizar Amin said:
my 2gb sd card was working fine..
i dont know what happened but i copied some apk files on the sd card using pc (usb cable)
but when i unplugged... the files were missing..
i tried several times but still the files are not getting copied
also i of the files i copied was appearing but gave parse error
and it is not being removed.. ie when i delete it and connect to pc..
it appears again..
please help
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That problem happened to me for about 3 times (it happened to me last week) , My application got corrupted and they do not show in applications drawer. The solution to your problem is before you unplug your phone to computer make sure you unmounted the USB Storage (SD Card) and make sure you finish the media scanning first before unplugging it to your computer , even you already unmounted the USB Storage make sure to finish the media scanning to make sure that the media scanner has already loaded your applications that is stored on your SD Card , How to get rid of this ?? , Go to Settings>Applications>Manage applications but make sure to clear data them first so it won't leave trash in your SD Card after you uninstalled them
I Hope this won't happen to you anymore
Because once this problem happened again then you lose your data ( Game data's etc.)

I.M.G said:
how could i format it to fat32
the computer cant recognize my sd card..
it say INSERT DISK..
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If u have any nokia device or ur friend any one have nokia device ....try in it and format... Most of nokia device recognize curopt sd card...... Try it
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[Q] Phone no longer working /SD card

Greetings XDA,
I would love help with my current situation. I am in the military and really need my phone working so my soldiers can contact me ^^;.
I have an HTC Evo, the older (original) version, and followed the steps here:
http: // htcevohacks <dot> com/htc-evo-hacks/root-for-htc-evo-4g-gingerbread-is-here/
It seemed to work just fine, and so I connected my phone to my computer to transfer some files. However, after about a minute, the my computer didn't recognize that my phone was connected anymore and I didn't even have the option for "disk drive" on my drop down list. Apparently, my SD card was unmounting itself. After rebooting and trying again about a dozen times, I decided to bypass the phone/usb deal and connect the sd card directly thought an adaptor. My computer recognized it and opened the drive, but once I tried to delete or move any file, the drive would dismount.
Becoming fustrated, I decided to try and wipe the SD card/format it, but because my phone won't recognize it and it dismounts itself from my computer, I can't do either.
Now my phone only boots into the bootloader and doesn't recognize the SD card at all.
I thank you for taking the time to read my post, and appreciate any help you can provide.

I would try swapping in another sd card
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I don't currently have another SD card, nor do I really want to spend money on another one; if I can avoid it.
I've tried formatting the SD card several different ways:
Through basic windows means (Right Click > Format)
Through CMD Prompt
Through Admin Tools - Comp Mgmnt - Disk Mgmnt
Through 3rd party programs, etc
However, whenever I try to move a file to the sd card, move something out of, delete, format, or any other type of specific access, my computer can then no longer recognize it.
Is there any way for me to get my phone past bootloader, without the sd card? I've tried resetting all user data in recovery, but it seems that no matter what I do, I can't get past the bootloader.
Is there anyone out there with a solution?
Perhaps there are other details I can provide, just inquire.

So you can get into recovery? Have you tried formating the sd card with recovery?

Evilone69tmg said:
So you can get into recovery? Have you tried formating the sd card with recovery?
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Yes, I have, but my phone doesn't recognize that the sd card is mounted.

Cardioes said:
Yes, I have, but my phone doesn't recognize that the sd card is mounted.
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What happens when you try to mount sd card in recovery? All in all it may be a bad sd card. And you might have to get a new one. Or if you got a friend that has a spare one you can use.

Evilone69tmg said:
What happens when you try to mount sd card in recovery? All in all it may be a bad sd card. And you might have to get a new one. Or if you got a friend that has a spare one you can use.
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Thank you for your prompt replies.
Whenever I try to mount/access my sd card on the phone, it simply doesn't find it. I am using the same 8gb sd card that came with the phone, and I've had the phone since day 1 release.
The more and more I try to fix or find a solution to this problem, the more frustrated I am getting; and the more it is seemingly looking hopeless =/.

No reading sd card

Hi. Picked up this phone a week ago. I love it. I put a sd card in from another phone. I got it in and it sees it but I cannot read it or format it. Does it have to be a certain sd card to work?

Download file Commander and format sd card, if it won't do it, connect the SD to the PC and format it on NTFS:highfive:

I tired pk unzip but there is no format option. I formated the card with my computer like you said but it still doesn't see it.

bandito40 said:
I tired pk unzip but there is no format option. I formated the card with my computer like you said but it still doesn't see it.
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Can you see a popup informing you about "SD Card" inserted.
You need to complete that step from the notification menu.
Select it as Media Storage for using it properly.

bandito40 said:
I tired pk unzip but there is no format option. I formated the card with my computer like you said but it still doesn't see it.
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Hi
So try to format it as FAT32

I do get a notification but everytime I use it, it crashes. I tried the FAT32 format but still get the same results. I am trying this with two different sd cards which work fine in my old phone and laptop. I think it's the phone. Some googling resulted in Xperia phones not being able to read sd cards properly.

bandito40 said:
I do get a notification but everytime I use it, it crashes. I tried the FAT32 format but still get the same results. I am trying this with two different sd cards which work fine in my old phone and laptop. I think it's the phone. Some googling resulted in Xperia phones not being able to read sd cards properly.
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Ok so I have an idea, have you been on an airport or over a metal detector? If yes, it means that your SD card or phone got demagnetized (happened also to me with old phone), so buy a Sony SD card that resist to them :good: