Bri said:
What do you mean it died? You can't reformat it, even in a camera or cell phone?
Kingston microSD cards have a lifetime warranty, so if that's true you could always get yours replaced for free.
-Bri
This is what happened:
In the early morning, i downloaded Ouendan and tried to transfer it to my micro sd. Just then, an usual problem (at least on this computer and on my friend's) came up: it wouldnt let me open the micro sd saying that it couldn't access it. What i normally do to get around that problem is that i open windows explorer and access it from there. Its some sort of stupid virus that installs itself to the root of the card and has an autorun file in case it gets deleted so it can install itself again.
I have dealt with this problem many times before, so what i did was open the command prompt, run the following command "attrib -h -s E:*.* /s /d" and then i delete it from the root when it becomes visible. If you are wondering why i didnt just run an antivirus check its because the stupid antivirus wouldnt find it, so i had to do it manually. This time though, i encountered something weird: the usual number of suspect files and their respective filenames were different from what i had encountered before. No biggy, i just ran the antivirus on them and it did find them and eliminated them.
After that, the device worked fine: i could open it normally by double-clicking it in My Computer and after running another virus check on the whole drive and making sure it was clean i went ahead and copied ouendan to the drive. Plugged my micro sd in my M3 Real and began playing it but just as i finished playing and began preparing to shutdown my computer i noticed on these forums the news that dragon quest 5 got dumped and i decided to download it.
When i ran the rom in my DS i could only see ERROR:MID instead of what was supposed to be dialogue. So I, thinking that maybe it had to do with having my DS language setting to japanese, turned off my DS and changed the language to english hoping it would get fixed (yes, i am stupid and naive at times, laugh at me
) and thats when the problem started.
I couldnt boot up the M3 real; it just got stuck at the booting screen with the M3 real logo in the bottom screen, right corner. I decided to check the drive on my computer but it wont access it no matter what i do. The computer recognizes there is a disk but says it is unreadable. On the events manager, i found there were two error events:
The device, \Device\Harddisk1\D, has a bad block.
RSM could not load media in drive Drive 0 of library USB 2.0 SD/MMC Reader USB Device.
Funny that when i plugged my drive into the PC to transfer dragon quest i got an error saying that the removable disk needed to be formatted but i still was able to access it anyways and transfer all of my saves before it died. I even tried to access it on my friends pc but it wont let me, so i am pretty sure the card is fuxxored.
I am posting my problem just in case somebody has an idea on how to fix it. The idea that there is a virus (maybe the same virus that i eliminated before and that somehow managed to avoid complete deletion and hide itself) blocking me from accessing my drive still lingers in my head and its the only thing preventing me from throwing away the card.
Any of you guys knows if theres a way to fix bad blocks on a micro sd card? A software maybe?
And thanks for reading my long @$$ post(if any of you did)
like a 250 dollar kit back when DDR4 was Intel only
