Hacking SC DSTWO Memory Erase

[geenlung]

I went to put my DSTWO in my NDSL today and the DS couldn't find the card. I repeated this on my sister's NDSL and her's couldn't find the card either. I tested the microSD on my AceKard 2i and it seemed to be fine. I had my DSTWO in my pocket with my credit card for ~10min. Could my credit card's magnetic strip have erased the DSTWO memory?

 

[hullo8d]

I doubt that your credit card would do anything. Did you SD work in the DS2 before and have you tried it again?

 

[geenlung]

Yea. I had the DSTWO for about a week. It was working pretty well (except for 1-2 NDS games and freezing within minutes of GBA emulation). The microSD was previously formatted by Panisonic and has been working up today so the SD shouldn't be an issue.

 

[hullo8d]

Faulty DS2

 

[ramon2000]

Hi,

Have you tried a chkdsk (disk check and repair tool)?

I had a similar problem (scds2 didn't recognize the shdc card, but it was recognized by the pc and I could access files in it) and the chkdsk solved the problem.

I think that I slightly corrupted the card (I removed it from the PC without unmouting it (indeed I unmounted another drive

)).

Regards

 

[geenlung]

I did a chkdsk and that didn't work so I tried a format and that didn't work either. I'm pretty sure it's the credit card. The hotel card key that was in my pocket got erased as well.

 

[Pong20302000]

unlikely to be a credit card

i magnetic force will screw the data tho

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

unlikely to be a credit card

i magnetic force will screw the data tho

Credit cards give off a small magnetical field, they can corrupt anything if they are near it long enough. So, you're screwed, I guess.

 

[jalaneme]

some memory cards are immune to magnetic corruption like the samsung micro sd, that's why i brought one.

 

[DeltaBurnt]

Nice 15 day bump of a thread that's already pretty much solved :\