Help! Tablet sd card damaged?

The_stingemeister

My Hudl2 came up with the notification "SD card damaged-format it".
The micro card is only 3 weeks old (sandisk). The files have dissapeared off tablet. So I used an sd card adapter and put the card into my laptop and hey presto the film and music files are all there and working.

What to do, faulty card? Format card and try downloading to it again? After this I think I will steer clear of storing photos on here (not done this yet).

enfield_freddy

although sandisk is a good make , there are a LOT of forgeries about , those mostly occure on larger cards , the "forgers" use small cards and alter then so that they say 8g , 16g, 32g and 64g


please d/load and run h2testw http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/H2testw.shtml its a free programme that rights to all the card , then tries to read it , most of the forgeries , show that they have written (to fresh air) but the data is not there when you want to read it

arrallas

Copy all the files from the card to your laptop, format the card, copy files back on, see if it solves the problem. Cards do go faulty from time to time, but Sandisk are very good at replacing them under warranty. They are also very widely faked, so they have quite an involved validation process.

The_stingemeister

enfield_freddy wrote: »

although sandisk is a good make , there are a LOT of forgeries about , those mostly occure on larger cards , the "forgers" use small cards and alter then so that they say 8g , 16g, 32g and 64g


please d/load and run h2testw http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/H2testw.shtml its a free programme that rights to all the card , then tries to read it , most of the forgeries , show that they have written (to fresh air) but the data is not there when you want to read it

Thanks, but the files were playing ok on the tablet, 'til this morning.

arrallas wrote: »

Copy all the files from the card to your laptop, format the card, copy files back on, see if it solves the problem. Cards do go faulty from time to time, but Sandisk are very good at replacing them under warranty. They are also very widely faked, so they have quite an involved validation process.

Thanks, was bought of Amazons own store. Will try.

enfield_freddy

please test your card ,


"Thanks, was bought of Amazons own store. Will try."


ebay and amazon , and even argos (in the past) are rife with fake cards




once tested , and proved either way , you can progress , until then , ???

The_stingemeister

enfield_freddy wrote: »

although sandisk is a good make , there are a LOT of forgeries about , those mostly occure on larger cards , the "forgers" use small cards and alter then so that they say 8g , 16g, 32g and 64g


please d/load and run h2testw http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/H2testw.shtml its a free programme that rights to all the card , then tries to read it , most of the forgeries , show that they have written (to fresh air) but the data is not there when you want to read it

Downloaded it and its in download folder on tablet. Don't know how to run it .

I've already formatted the card and then synced 3 music files to it, which work on the tablet. Haven't the time to try video. So although it appears to be back working (at the moment) think I'll send it back to Amazon, only £15 but to go wrong so soon is poor. Maybe pay extra with PC World.

The_stingemeister

From what I gather (on the internet) micro sd cards are a bloody nightmare on these tablets. Always causing problems. But your stuck because you need the extra storage :mad:.

Stoke

If the SD card is damaged and unreadable, you'll need to format it using a special tool (something like GParted) and then you'll need to run a tool to retrieve as much of the damaged data as possible. Unfortunately, when a card is b0rked it's hard to tell how much has been damaged.

The_stingemeister

Stoke wrote: »

If the SD card is damaged and unreadable, you'll need to format it using a special tool (something like GParted) and then you'll need to run a tool to retrieve as much of the damaged data as possible. Unfortunately, when a card is b0rked it's hard to tell how much has been damaged.

I don't mind that much about the data lost. Except for the time I'd have to spend re-downloading it. A bit of a pain if it happened while you were away on holiday/travelling on long flights and with only foreign tv channels to watch.

Possibly the problem was caused by taking the sd card out of tablet and into the laptop. The reason for doing this was so the laptop would download direct to the card and not to the internal storage. I tried the cable from laptop to tablet method and once on internal storage the files won't move to sd card.

JJ_Egan

Removing a card while the os is still writing to it is the usual reason for corruption .

Fightsback

Stoke wrote: »

If the SD card is damaged and unreadable, you'll need to format it using a special tool (something like GParted) and then you'll need to run a tool to retrieve as much of the damaged data as possible. Unfortunately, when a card is b0rked it's hard to tell how much has been damaged.

Under no circumstances format a card you want to retrieve corrupt data off as this writes new data to the card and reduces your chance of using recovery tools to successfully retrieve the data. There are ways and means to achieve this without a reformat by mounting and reading as raw.