Hacking Corrupted SD card?? Help?

Rxq · Oct 21, 2007

Long story short,
1. I connected my Micro Sd card to my PC (for the second time)
2. Copied a game on it
3. Disk becomes corrupted
4. All files on SD card has weird letters. (ie :1.)))))))))d
5. Possible to recover my .sav file?

Wierd letters arent showing up in this post.

I dont know if the game had anything to do with it.

DarkAura · Oct 21, 2007

Reformat? Maybe try restarting your computer?

Nero · Oct 21, 2007

Getting your saves back? Kinda slim chance...

Next time, backup your Savefiles.

Sailor · Oct 21, 2007

QUOTE(MisterNero @ Oct 21 2007 said:
Getting your saves back? Kinda slim chance...

Next time, backup your Savefiles.

How do you do that? Just in case something happens to me :0

fightabunny · Oct 22, 2007

This happened to me once.

I had to reformat. Nothing else worked. Through a few hours of toiling I managed to save the files, but they were corrupted beyond repair. Just reformat. You'll lose all your save files but it's all you can do

I suggest backing up your save files every time you plug in your card to the computer (Keep some saves folder on your desktop and drag/drop your .savs every time you plug it in.)

myuusmeow · Oct 22, 2007

DON'T REFORMAT YET, IF YOU WANT YOUR SAVES.
Download/torrent a program called GetDataBack. (Demonoid/Mininova have it)
Run it, recover your MicroSD.
Copy files to a folder.
Then reformat.

I was able to recover all my saves using it.

Nero · Oct 22, 2007

Backing up your saves is easy as Copy + Paste onto your Desktop/into a folder.

Next time, get into the habit of this. It'll save you tons of time.

~Nero

DarkAura · Oct 22, 2007

I backup my saves onto a flash drive, just in case my computer suddenly dies.

JacobReaper · Oct 22, 2007

QUOTE(dark_aura12 @ Oct 21 2007 said:
I backup my saves onto a flash drive, just in case my computer suddenly dies.

how big is your flash drive?

DarkAura · Oct 22, 2007

It's just sav files, like 512 kb each. And I use two 2 gigs.

Nero · Oct 22, 2007

QUOTE(dark_aura12 @ Oct 21 2007 said:
It's just sav files, like 512 kb each.Â And I use two 2 gigs.

Jeez...

You really need two 2 GB Flash Drives to store your DS saves?

According to my calculations, if you take 2GB and divide it by the size of each R4DS Save. (512kb)

2GB/512KB = About 3905 Saves...

Hell, you could fit every save of each ROM on there right now if you wanted to.

~Nero

Rxq · Oct 22, 2007

QUOTE(myuusmeow @ Oct 21 2007 said:
DON'T REFORMAT YET, IF YOU WANT YOUR SAVES.
Download/torrent a program called GetDataBack. (Demonoid/Mininova have it)
Run it, recover your MicroSD.
Copy files to a folder.
Then reformat.

I was able to recover all my saves using it.

Can anyone confirm this before i get my hopes up?

Anyone have idea why it crash btw?

Nero · Oct 22, 2007

QUOTE(Rxq @ Oct 21 2007 said:
QUOTE(myuusmeow @ Oct 21 2007 said:

DON'T REFORMAT YET, IF YOU WANT YOUR SAVES.
Download/torrent a program called GetDataBack. (Demonoid/Mininova have it)
Run it, recover your MicroSD.
Copy files to a folder.
Then reformat.

I was able to recover all my saves using it.

Can anyone confirm this before i get my hopes up?

Anyone have idea why it crash btw?

Click to expand...

It just sometimes does it out of the blue.

I used Lameboy once and I saved in Links Awakening, and it left a 0 kb, undeletable file on my MicroSD. and Files kept disapearing.

It started to not be read by my R4, so I checked it out and it was empty. So I reformatted it and it works perfect ever since. Good thing I backed up my saves.

(I can't confirm the GetDataBack thing... Sorry)

~Nero

enigmaindex · Oct 22, 2007

How do you connect your Micro SD card to the computer? Because i use to use SD card adapters and plug them into my card reader, and for some reason every 4-5 days the Micro SD card would become corrupt and it wouldn't let me copy anything to it or take anything from it. So i then bought another Micro SD card USB reader (lost the one that came with my R4) and my Micro SD card hasn't become corrupt for 3 week straight.

Nero · Oct 22, 2007

QUOTE(enigmaindex @ Oct 22 2007 said:
How do you connect your Micro SD card to the computer? Because i use to use SD card adapters and plug them into my card reader, and for some reason every 4-5 days the Micro SD card would become corrupt and it wouldn't let me copy anything to it or take anything from it. So i then bought another Micro SD card USB reader (lost the one that came with my R4) and my Micro SD card hasn't become corrupt for 3 week straight.

Hmm.. All I know is the Silver/Black reader that comes with the R4 is complete, utter crap.

I use the MicroSD Adapter that comes with my Kingston MicroSD. Very fast transfering speeds and never corrupted for me; unlike the R4 adapter.

enigmaindex · Oct 22, 2007

QUOTE(MisterNero @ Oct 22 2007 said:
Hmm.. All I know is the Silver/Black reader that comes with the R4 is complete, utter crap.

I use the MicroSD Adapter that comes with my Kingston MicroSD. Very fast transfering speeds and never corrupted for me; unlike the R4 adapter.

My SD adapter was a SanDisk, that could be a reason, or a crappy card reader but i haven't got the silver/black USB reader anymore, that's the one i lost and the few times i did use it it was crap. I bought a different one from some computer shop in Australia and it works great.

Nero · Oct 22, 2007

QUOTE(enigmaindex @ Oct 22 2007 said:
QUOTE(MisterNero @ Oct 22 2007 said:

Hmm.. All I know is the Silver/Black reader that comes with the R4 is complete, utter crap.

I use the MicroSD Adapter that comes with my Kingston MicroSD. Very fast transfering speeds and never corrupted for me; unlike the R4 adapter.

My SD adapter was a SanDisk, that could be a reason, or a crappy card reader but i haven't got the silver/black USB reader anymore, that's the one i lost and the few times i did use it it was crap. I bought a different one from some computer shop in Australia and it works great.

Click to expand...

Naw, SanDisk adapters are pretty reliable. It was probably because you used the crappy R4 one before.

~Nero

(Gonna go sleep.)

enigmaindex · Oct 22, 2007

Eh maybe. oh well my problem is all fixed (well i hope) with the new USB reader, so all is well.

0xyG3N · Oct 22, 2007

I have the same problem
Maybe its a virus or somethin

everytime i put my porn pics on my ds there come weard files xD

GundamXXX · Oct 22, 2007

Same happend to me, well not same but similar thing.
Format the card or buy a new one.. I had to buy a new one

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