SD Card Low Level Format

Discussion in 'Software' started by FlyteUK, Dec 29, 2007.

  1. FlyteUK

    FlyteUK Private E-2

    Hi, I have a similar problem, but windows won't do anything with the drive :cry

    I had the SD card in my nokia phone, and I tried to set a password on it, but it locked the phone up totally. I waited for about half an hour, but in the end I had to just pull the battery out. It wasn't even responding to the power button. :confused

    So I turn the phone back on and it doesn't even recognise that there's an SD card in there. When I plug it into my linux desktop PC and turn it on, it hangs just before the BIOS memory check. As soon as I un-plug it, it checks the memory and carries on as normal. Linux will not read the device at all.

    When I plug it into my windows laptop, go to manage, disk management, it says unreadable. When I try to format it in windows, it say there is no media in the drive. On the drive properties, it says the file format is RAW and the size is 0 bytes.

    Panasonic's SD formatter says that the drive is not usable or something..

    I'm totally at a loss now as to what to do. This is a 2GB SD card which I really want to be able to use again. I'm over the loss of more than a year's worth of photos on there, but I don't want to lose the use of my memory card too!

    Can anyone suggest what to do next?!

    Thanks.
     
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    In Windows can you run a chkdsk /f on the drive?


    What was Panasonics SD formatters full message for not formatting the drive as this is what many use to format corrupted cards? ( also check if the card has a lock tab that its not on lock )

    could also try this one http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2006.04.12-HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool/


    Weird option of the day is, do you have a digital camera that uses SD cards if so pop it in their and try and format, why well they dont really fully adhere to file formats like PCs so may not care what file format or corruption is on the card and format it, then you should be able to check in PC if its readable.
     

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