SD Card Problem

bernieeccles · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 2:45 pm Post subject: SD Card Problem

I have the medion 95000 PPC and recently installed a 1GB sandisk SD card.Everything was fine until today.Now.I cannot access the card at all,although,if I look at the card in settings/memory/storage card,the amount of used and free memory is shown.

I have tried a soft reset and a hard reset but this did not work.

Any Ideas ?

lbendlin · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 4:30 pm Post subject:

Maybe a write operation did not finish and that corrupted the FAT.

We could say "Told you so" because we generally advise against Sandisk cards, but that doesn't help you much.

Worst case you will have to reformat the card. Hopefully you have made regular backups. If not - now is the time to begin them.
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bernieeccles · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 4:50 pm Post subject:

How does one reformat the SD card ?

lbendlin · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 5:53 pm Post subject:

by putting it into the card reader in your PC and then right clicking the drive letter. Format in FAT (not FAT32)
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gripp · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:

Lutz,

Interested to know why you suggest FAT rather than FAT32.

I had to reformat a 1Gb card recently and used FAT32 in a card reader and it all worked fine??

Geoff.
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lbendlin · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject:

FAT is just more common.

Of course if you are adventurous you can play around with File system types and cluster sizes, but for the limited number of big files on the card this is not too important.

But for the average user FAT is just safer.
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