Hacking Dead MicroSD, please help

[corbs132]

I have had flash drives die before, and usually i can recover them with hp disk utility (usually). My microsd card died from that damn r4 reader and now i'm screwed out of $45. It can't format, can't read, its detected ometimes as 0 bytes, other times doesn't even show up. any ideas? It means alot to me.

 

[adgloride]

Have you tried using another card reader other than the R4 card reader? If it is the MicroSD card it should carry a 5 year guarantee and you should be able to get another one.

 

[CatScam]

Like adgloride mentioned most cards come with 5 year to lifetime guarantees.

 

[yee]

Sandisk/Kingston have lifetime warranties.

 

[corbs132]

Its kingston. who do i go to to return it?

 

[MaHe]

SD Association's SD Formatter fixed it for me ...

 

[corbs132]

did you have some weird obyte detectio nthing?

 

[Dymlos]

Same thing just happen to me 30 mins ago. I have a Kingston 1GB.

I had it for about 2 weeks now with my R4 working perfectly, but tonight, I backup some of my saves and decided to try Biker Mice from Mars. Everything was transfering well until near the end of the transfer, my computer did a blue screen of death. It's the first time I get a blue screen on my computer yet.

After the reboot, I open up my microSD drive and it freeze a couple of minutes then it tell me that I have nothing in my drive. I can't format or read it anymore.

I don't have any other reader so I can't try it on another reader.


Any help would be greatly welcome. Thanks in advance.

 

[corbs132]

I got another reader, (sd) put micro in the sd adapter, that into usb adapter, into usb slot. sd format tool doesnt detect it ( :-( )

 

[corbs132]

Hate double posting, but any ideas? MANY other people have problems like this

 

[mac900]

I might have a (strange

) solution: use your PDA to format the card!
I've had a problem where I could not read my micro SD anymore and even Explorer hang up.
I used my PDA to format the SD card (FAT32, 4kB cluster) and then reformatted it on the PC (FAT32, standard clustersize) and it can be used again

.
This might work for you too, unless of course, it is really a hardware problem.

 

[Farami9]

ok I am not using the r4 / m3 sd reader