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[Q] Transferring files to Goldcard..

I try to avoid having to post questions, but I am clueless on what is happening...I have a rooted HTC Inpsire with Cyanogenmod...I have had no issues with it up until about 2 days ago...I was moving music files to the card and it showed that the files were copied...as soon as the phone is ejected and the card is prepared the files are gone. I can also delete music files that are on the phone and when the phone is rebooted the music files reappear. All files I try to transfer do this, not just music....I have tried to reformat/wipe the SD card and as soon as the phone is rebooted nothing has changed. I tried to do a factory reset and It will not let me...very frustrated at this point...Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated...It is very difficult to explain technical issues so I apologize in advance for any confusion..

It sounds as if therehas been a problem with the install of your ROM, Try re- installing your chosen rom and also, Re-Format your sd card after flashing your rom, then see if the problem persists, Ill look a little further into this also
TO TRY AND FIX YOUR SD CARD PROBLEM
1stly - take it out of your phone, plug it into the sdcard holder and plug it into your pc, now try and transfer some large file,
(say a movie/music video - (something thats gonna use alot of read/write mb to it -
See if it shows an error while transfering. If it does try below tips
If it transfers the files ok, then try and play the file - say a video/movie, try this a couple of times in different usb ports, or removing sd card and placing back in. If the files transfer and play every time youv'e done the above, then it looks like your sd card is ok - but for peace of mind you can try the below tips
Plug your Micro sd card into its holder and insert into your pc, Go to My Computer, Right click the Removable drive, Go to Properties >Tools. Run Error Checking and Scan for errors and fix them. The files that are corrupt or in bad sectors already will not work but at least the new transferred files should work.
To format your micro SD card. Plug it into the card holder, then plug into your pc
go to windows start button(bottom left hand side), in the bottom seach tab type in cmd, this will enter ms dos command run as administrator if you can, when the screen appears type diskpart - press return/enter
wait - and the list volume should appear,
then choose the number of the volume of your usb sd card holder for example " volume I " **** MAKE SURE THAT THE DRIVE - IS YOU SDCARD BEFORE FORMAT ****
after youve selected your correct drive/volume, hit return, then type format - hit return and its done
You could also try this tool to completley format you sd card - link here- http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=197
Have a read of this thread, here on XDA http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-802511.html
Hope this helps ya
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[Q] ES screwed up a simple file operation, now my Note says my SD's blank (it isn't).

*deep breath*
I noticed that my Note II had bounced a rather small app update for lack of space on the phone. Okay, fine. I have a bunch of games on there (GTA is huge) and I guess I have to move/delete some stuff. Then I realize that my camera app has been storing stuff on the phone instead of the 64gb Class 10 Kingston SD card (in b4 "Kingston is crap!"). So I make that change and tell the phone to start saving photos to the SD card. Fine. There are already some photo files on the SD card, so I decide to use ES File Explorer to move the existing photos from my DCIM folder to the one on the SD card. ES tells me everything went fine, and a subsequent check confirmed this. All good so far.
Then I went for a drive and decided to play tracks off my phone. What? Nobody home. No music for some reason. Everything's gone. Fine, I'll look into it when I get home.
This morning: "Oh, I have a photo of that! Let me just get it..."
Nobody home.
Go to ES File Explorer, and all the files and folders on the stupid SD card are 404.
Go to my computer. Connect my Note II and look at the drives on the phone. Windows shows the phone's storage, and shows the card storage, which says there's stuff on there (as in, space is taken up). Click into the drive and... Nothing's there.
Unmount the SD in Settings and put it into a card reader. Maybe the phone's goofing up, right? Windows says that the card needs to be formatted (because it's using an unfamiliar filesystem).
Nuts.
Put the card back into the phone. The phone will recognize the filesystem, so it should be-- What?
Phone says the card is now blank or using an unsupported filesystem.
So there's my problem. How do I proceed? I know that stuff's on there. I just know there's something stupid going on that's preventing me from getting at it.
As long as I can yank my latest photos off there, I don't mind wiping the card and starting over, since it's just media stuff I was keeping on there anyway. What do I use to crack into it?
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
UPDATE: Various file recovery apps (in both Windows and the phone) are telling me that the card now has truly nothing on it. There are many, many really great swear words I want to share with you right now, but am prohibited from using on this forum. It actually HURTS not to use them right now.
Why do people seem to have so many problems with 64gb Class 10 cards on the Note II?

I had similar problem, I was trying to use software for SGSII to map SD card as usb flash disk to a PC and it didn't work and when I disconnected I had same symptoms as you. I put the card in reader and connected to PC and repaired with Minitool (just search for "MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition"). I lost couple of folders but most of it was ok.
Good luck!

Sounds like You have a Corrupted Boot sector.
Put the SD card in a Card Reader on Your Windows PC.
Open a Command Prompt and Type This - chkdsk /X /F <SD card drive letter>:
If Your SD card is Drive G, It would Look Like This - chkdsk /X /F G:
This will repair the Boot Sector if that is the Problem.
Put the SD card back in Your Phone and You should be Good To Go.

[Q] Sd card not mounting - Please Help

Hi all,
My phone has started acting up, yesterday it was working fine but then decided to randomly restart by itself.
On restarting I noticed that all my apps that were on the Sd card weren't loading.
The SD card is refusing to mount, i've factory restored, I've taken the battery out left it for a bit and then restarted without sd card, then put the sd card in and REPLACED THE COVER. (which seems to be why most don't mount)
But still it's not mounting, I can't access any folders on my Computer including the files that are saved on the phone.
When using explorer i right click properties and no files show up, the info that does appear except; model name, firmware version, serial number and power source.
I have tried searching around but have been unable to find anything which would fix this issue.
I apologise if there is a post similar to this already out there.
I would highly appreciate the help.
Thanks in advance!

Fixed with a little messing about
I don't know if this is the proper way to fix it.
I am a bit of an impatient person when it comes to phone (yeah i know, not the best of attributes.)
Having read all the people online saying it's because the back lid/cover isn't closed i tried jamming a piece of paper in that section so that when i closed the back cover the added pressure would make the sd card mount.... that didn't help.
What i did next was get a paperclip, hold down the button parallel to the flash and click the sd card out and click it back in, whilst being on the sd card mount screen. Once I saw the text highlight white, i clicked mount, let go of the paperclip and put the cover back on.
For me the SD card mounted without the back cover being on. I have now got access to all my file and the sd card is appearing on windows.

All files on external SD card corrupt after unexpected shutdown

Hey guys and girls!
This morning my phone turned off by itself (13% battery left) and needed somewhat longer than usual to reboot (in the meantime I plugged it back in to the charger). First thing I noticed was that my whole theme got reset as well as it started showing me introductional tips ("long press here to move your apps to the homescreen, ecc.). It also started to update apps in the Play Store even though I set it to manual ... so basically a LOT of things were reset.
The biggest problem I'm having now is though that all my files (pictures, videos, music) that are stored on an external micro SD card are corrupt. It's not possible anymore to open anything. I already removed the micro SD card and put it into an adapter to have a look at the files via the laptop. But nothing, even though the sizes of the files seem OK, I can't open them.
Does anyone have a clue as to what exactly happened here? Are those files lost (at least of some I have a backup) or is there anything I can do to "repair" them? Help is really appreciated, thanks!
PS: Things like the card unmounting and re-mounting never occurred. So I can't tell if the card was dying or if actually the phone ruined my files.

Did you happen to be using a SanDisk SD Card? I've had my 10 brick 2 of those until I switched to Samsung SD Cards about a year ago and haven't had issues since.
I never could manage to recover files from the damaged SD cards.

I have a Samsung SD card and had something similar.
I guess I was on Viper Rom and basically my phone restarted around 15-20% of battery. After a long wait for booting back again, all my settings were gone.
Files and others in the SD card was okay but basically until I formatted the card, I wasn't able to boot into the Download Mode to install a new rom...
I fixed the restart issue by installing the official HTC Rom.

Thanks for your replies.
It is indeed a SanDisk 16GB card. It seems though that the card is still working (no problems accessing it via phone or laptop), just the files appear to be broken. In the meantime I also tried apps like PC Inspector File Recovery, but to no success
I'm still on stock HTC Sense by the way, no root, nothing.
Anyone know though why that happened (resetting everything, etc.)?

Hit me with a PM I'll give you a SanDisk restore tool which works quite ok. there is a huge chance some files can be recovered, some will be damaged though. Don't push any new files on the card after you tried to restore the files

HTC 10-Corrupted microSD card
I know this is an older thread, but I was wondering if there is a solution. I have an HTC 10 which has an micro SD card in it, that is "married" to the phone. When connected to a computer, the computer recognizes the phone, and the microSD card, and begins to load the folders/files. Eventually this process stalls, and the phone/drive is no longer readable by the computer. To get the computer to recognize the phone/card again, I need to restart the phone, but the same thing happens again.
I have like 20gigs of data on the card, and cannot just put the card in a reader, because it's encrypted to the phone. Any possible solutions? It's frustrating to see the files/pictures for a minute or two, and then have them disappear. I have tried copying/pasting the files while they're visible, but this often triggers the computer to no longer recognize the phone/memory card. I've tried to un-encrypt the microSD card, but the phone can't recognize/access the microSD card long enough to complete that process.
Please help if you can.
Glenn

Have you cloned a failing SD card that was formatted for internal storage?

Hey guys,
HTC 10 user. Not even a year into my 128GB MicroSD card's life and it's forcing write-protection. I think it's about to die. I can read off it. I can't write.
This SD Card was formatted as internal storage and is encrypted.
I bought a similar 128GB MicroSD card and I'd like to simply clone the image to the new SD card.
Has anyone SUCCESSFULLY done this?
I've attempted it and I pop in the new SD Card and it doesn't detect the card. It simply asks me to insert a card, like the card doesn't even exist.
I've actually tried TWO cloned 128GB cards - they aren't detected.
From what I can tell, I'm doing identical clones of the original MicroSD so I am not sure what I am missing. I'm using a cheapo freeware utility to do the clone in Windows. I don't have the utility name in front of me and I'm not home at the moment.
I have two more things I'd like to try, but I don't know if it's a futile effort: I'd like to try a dd clone from a linux live cd. I'd also like to try EaseUs clone utility, but I fear that's some kind of trial and I'm going to have to shell out some $$ to utilize it.
I know I can unload the original SD's contents to a PC, toss a new card in there, format, and start fresh...download all the play store, f-droid apps again, likely re-download all my audible books, drag my music back onto the card from the PC, and start a-new. That isn't my question, though.
I'm really wondering if I can clone an encrypted, internal-storage SD. I don't WANT to have to download my apps again. I don't want to have to rebuild caches and whatever else has been thrown onto my MicroSD.
Thanks!

I've done this before using clonezilla and it worked fine, no issues at all.
It's not as user friendly as a windows application probably.... but it gets the job done by doing an exact copy.
It even has a mode to keep reading on broken sectors (when you go into advanced mode), that way you can make the best copy possible.
You can read some instructions here
I did it directly from 1 card to another by inserting the source card into an adapter with the readonly slider lock thing to make sure I didn't write empty data to my source.
You can also first create an image from the source and then write the image to the new card.
Please keep in mind to not insert both cards at the same time when using Windows, it will crash Windows.
Windows doesn't understand that there could be 2 drives with the same ID's connected at the same time