Hacking Did warioware diy brick my memory card?

[choconado]

Okay, so I'm the perpetual noob, right? I recently grabbed a copy of warioware diy, and started playing it. Something went wrong and the game froze. "harrumph" says I and I restart the ds. Akaio hangs at the initial loading message. Uh oh. I check my memory card on the pc, and suddenly it asks to format the card! Of course I won't. Properties reads the card as 0 bytes used, 0 bytes available. Clearly not right.
Did I screw the pooch on this one, or is there some way to recover all the data?

 

[Rydian]

Recuva on the Deep setting?

 

[choconado]

Umm, A.) what is that?
And B.) how do I do it?
I's too a-stupid to fix these things myself...

 

[DeadlyFoez]

Although this is rather unrelated, my kids DS just screwed up the other day and everything inside the __aio (or whatever it is) was corrupted with strange characters as the file names and it could not be deleted. I tried a few of my usual windows apps that I use for formatting things to fat32 and none would work. Only windows disc management worked to format it. Weird.

Luckily, I was able to copy off all of her same games and then just cloned my other daughters MicroSD card over and then replaced the save games and done.

EDIT: just reading a couple threads, I see there were many issues with 1.8.1, and I think thats what version they are running. Luckily it did not fully brick it.

 

[m3rox]

You cannot brick a memory card, op. There may be a problem with it, but it is impossible to brick it.

 

[DeadlyFoez]

You cannot brick a memory card, op. There may be a problem with it, but it is impossible to brick it.

Not true. Look at what windows 7 phones are doing to MicroSD cards. They screw with it so it can never be used with another device. Last I heard, there was no chance of ever fixing it.

 

[loco365]

I've had Made in Ore (Jap. DIY) corrupt my card. So, I don't see it as unheard of. I had to reformat the dumb card, though.

 

[choconado]

So...I take it I have to format the card then? Bummer. Brightside: my last backup was only about a week ago.