all of a sudden my phone is asking me to format my memory card, and the mc is not showing up on file explorer.
i didnt want to format it but in the end i had to . but still it says format memory card. and i still cant get into it .
can someone pls help on this as i have done everything i can think of
thanks in advance
have you been playing with the ramdisk tweaks? If yo dont set 'autoformat' it asks every boot.
If the memory card is not showing up and even does not after a format, your card could be bad ....
its time to change your card. your hd2 has corrupted your card. but don't worry you are not the only one having this problem. there are tons of users out there who got this prob.
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have you been playing with the ramdisk tweaks? If yo dont set 'autoformat' it asks every boot.
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no dont even know where to find that . it just happened was not playin with it at the time .
does this mean i have to get another sd card? or is there a way to get it working again ????
iainbp said:
no dont even know where to find that . it just happened was not playin with it at the time .
does this mean i have to get another sd card? or is there a way to get it working again ????
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im pretty sure a format will fix it.
JJbdoggg said:
im pretty sure a format will fix it.
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tryed that a few times now . and nowt different. when i try to format it from the pc it says write protected.
not sure what to try next . im all thinked out
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when i try to format it from the pc it says write protected.
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firstly, i have nothing but trouble with adapters that the switch slides to write protect when you enter it in the reader slot. I ended up taking them all off, so double and tripple check that.
Secondly, if you go to control panel/administrative tools/computer management (or words to that effect, depending on windows version)
look for disk management, and find your sd card there. See what it says, it could be that you can format it from there, or rebuild teh partition.
(Better still if you have a partition manager program handy, see if you can force it to rebuild the partition on teh card.)
However in all likelihood, its a duff card. It seems to be an emerging theme with the leo, cards going bad.
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firstly, i have nothing but trouble with adapters that the switch slides to write protect when you enter it in the reader slot. I ended up taking them all off, so double and tripple check that.
Secondly, if you go to control panel/administrative tools/computer management (or words to that effect, depending on windows version)
look for disk management, and find your sd card there. See what it says, it could be that you can format it from there, or rebuild teh partition.
nice one. . trying it now
EDIT* nope couldnt format via pc. looks like a trip to the shops,
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iainbp said:
samsamuel said:
firstly, i have nothing but trouble with adapters that the switch slides to write protect when you enter it in the reader slot. I ended up taking them all off, so double and tripple check that.
Secondly, if you go to control panel/administrative tools/computer management (or words to that effect, depending on windows version)
look for disk management, and find your sd card there. See what it says, it could be that you can format it from there, or rebuild teh partition.
nice one. . trying it now
EDIT* nope couldnt format via pc. looks like a trip to the shops,
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im having the same problem anyway to avoid it in the future?
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mayb its not formatted correctly?
SiL3nTKiLL said:
mayb its not formatted correctly?
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my pc wont even detect the card now
My sandisk 8g works fine get another TF maybe？
thats the only option i have as of now.....but what if that suffers the same fate?
when i go into device management it says the card is healthy but it still wont work . think its easyer just to get a new card
edit* now my pc cant even format the card. BUGGER
BAD disk
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If the memory card is not showing up and even does not after a format, your card could be bad ....
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You said something about memory card being BAD. What does it mean. When trying to make a partition, I saw something saying "bad disk" talking about my 32 gig MC.
I cannot reformat my MC and when tried, it says "windows unsuccessfully formatted the device". Any ideas on how to reformat my sd card friends?
I stopped using windows to format my sdcard as it does a mediocre job at best. All I use now is sdformatter. It does a much better job. I even had a card my hd2 said was bad and it revived it. Give it a try. I also use mini tool partition wizard for any and all partitioning required.
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Ok well I removed my sd card from my G1, and when I put it back in it gives me a "Blank SD Card" notification. I tried resetting my G1, and it didnt work. So I mounted it on my laptop and now it says "Drive G is not formatted would you like to format now?." I am really not trying to lose all my data and apps, and I kno my stuff didnt get deleted, how can this b fixed?
One of two ways, in my eyes.
First try looking at paragon, it might be able to find the partitions again and hopefully repair them.
Two try a data recovery program, personally I like GetDataBack but it only works for FAT and NTFS and not EXT2 if your data and apps were on that partition.
Hmm I tried GDB and it took about an hour and what do u kno I need the licensed version to get my files off, and will Paragon work? Cuz I dont wanna waste another hour.
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just put the sd card inside the adapter that all sd card brings when you get it.ok
AND than insert it on your labtop and copy all your files to your computer and format your sd card..
jcarloss said:
just put the sd card inside the adapter that all sd card brings when you get it.ok
AND than insert it on your labtop and copy all your files to your computer and format your sd card..
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As I said in the original post when I mounted it is said it needed to format, but anyway I found a program and got my files off, but I need to recover my ext2 partition which I dont think will happen
http://www.diskinternals.com/Linux-Recovery/
Never tried it but it might be worth a shot.
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http://www.diskinternals.com/Linux-Recovery/
Never tried it but it might be worth a shot.
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Yea I tried it but I need the paid version to recover
Have you tried inserting the sdcard into a computer running ubuntu? It will probably recognize the ext partition without any trouble.
Will I b able 2 use ubuntu to restore it?
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Will I b able 2 use ubuntu to restore it?
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I dunno, that's why I asked if you had tried it yet or not. You can always burn a Ubuntu livecd and test it without installing anything. As long as the partition table is intact it should be accessible.
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I dunno, that's why I asked if you had tried it yet or not. You can always burn a Ubuntu livecd and test it without installing anything. As long as the partition table is intact it should be accessible.
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Its gonna b a long ass download, and the table is intact, but I just need to get the files off it, and id rather kno if ubuntu can do [email protected] b4 I download it, I wish I can jus find a free program for ext2 partitions
Blank SD Card
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As I said in the original post when I mounted it is said it needed to format, but anyway I found a program and got my files off, but I need to recover my ext2 partition which I dont think will happen
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I loaded up Cyanogen's latest last week, formatted my 16gb to EXT2 and Fat32... all was working great for a week, then today, my G1 went blank. Upon a restart, the SD card came up with "Blank SD Card." Viewing the card from my card reader... can't read any files... what's the program that you "found?" I'll probably just fight through reformatting and rebuilding all my files... Later I'll perform file backup when I get it right.
this sound like your problem??
Hey asaspades, something like this happened to me a while back and I could read it on my laptop/cardreader and recover my files and reformat. Obv u have tried this. The thing is the same thing has hsappened not 10 min ago lol. When this happened before I was running my g1 as stock but now I have cyanmod (3.6.8.1 I think) amd apps 2 sd on ext2 partition. I am not at a computer atm but will try to recover the same way as before though I won't be able to access the ext2 partition (will try with ubuntu, hav wubi installer on pc). Oh and I rebooted after I realised something was wrong and now have a constant preparing sd card checking for errors notification. This sound kinda similar to your problem at all? I would like to know what is causing this. Maybe I just have a bad/corrupted sdcard lol. Anyway its really pissin me off not knowing
Left 4 a while and it now says damaged sdcard you may need to reformat.
i think my card is fried or corrupted cuz i popped it in paragon and i had like 7000GB on a 4gb class 6 card?..any ideas on how i can fix??
If I were you, boot into linux on your computer if you have it and format it using fdisk. If you don't have linux, then get it Besides that, if that fails, then your SD card is f*ck*d, and you might be just better off getting a new one.
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If I were you, boot into linux on your computer if you have it and format it using fdisk. If you don't have linux, then get it Besides that, if that fails, then your SD card is f*ck*d, and you might be just better off getting a new one.
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thanks i guess im screwed because i dont have access to linux
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thanks i guess im screwed because i dont have access to linux
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Might be a silly question but have you tried just formatting it in Android?
Settings > SD Card > Unmount SD then Format SD.
Worth a shot anyway.
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Might be a silly question but have you tried just formatting it in Android?
Settings > SD Card > Unmount SD then Format SD.
Worth a shot anyway.
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yea i tried that but when i insert the sd card the phone doesnt even recognize it and tells me that i have the sd card removed....
Nismo300zx said:
yea i tried that but when i insert the sd card the phone doesnt even recognize it and tells me that i have the sd card removed....
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Doesn't sound promising. What brand card is it? Did you ever fiddle with the partition table (i.e. to do apps-to-sd)?
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Doesn't sound promising. What brand card is it? Did you ever fiddle with the partition table (i.e. to do apps-to-sd)?
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i have a class 6 4gig transcend micro sdhc card..and i have done app2sd i had on jacmans 1.62 hero build with app2sd on a 1gig ext3 partition...and thats the last time it worked properly
It's fried. Just got a new one. I fried three yesterday. I have no idea how, but they were only 1MB anyway.
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It's fried. Just got a new one. I fried three yesterday. I have no idea how, but they were only 1MB anyway.
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damn there no way to bring it back??...i dnt think ill b able to get a new one.
The problem is, the phone or an SD card reader won't read it. IF somehow you can get it to recognize the card, you should be able to reformat. If not, why wouldn't you be able to get a new one? Staples has 2MB for 8 bucks.
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The problem is, the phone or an SD card reader won't read it. IF somehow you can get it to recognize the card, you should be able to reformat. If not, why wouldn't you be able to get a new one? Staples has 2MB for 8 bucks.
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thats the thing i put it in the reader and plug it up to my pc and it pops up but when i try and format it..it says windows was unable to format this card or something along those lines..im hoping that i can save it..
When you plug into your PC, does it recognize the drive as E or F?
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When you plug into your PC, does it recognize the drive as E or F?
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the sd drive is "G:" and E: is my cd-rw drive ...i dont have an F:
Nismo300zx said:
thats the thing i put it in the reader and plug it up to my pc and it pops up but when i try and format it..it says windows was unable to format this card or something along those lines..im hoping that i can save it..
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If it shows up as a device in windows it's not fried. Paragon should be able to fix it. I highly recommend downloading a Linux livecd or liveusb image that has gparted on it. That'll help you fix this in a jiffy.
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If it shows up as a device in windows it's not fried. Paragon should be able to fix it. I highly recommend downloading a Linux livecd or liveusb image that has gparted on it. That'll help you fix this in a jiffy.
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thanks i just used wubi to install ubuntu now im gonna try and see wat i can do...im not to familiar with linux thoso any pointers would b great
Anything on the fix?
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Anything on the fix?
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well i just loaded up ubuntu and installed gparted...and once i inserted my sd reader errors came up saying that it was unable to mount my sd ...so im not sure what to do here..im gonna try and format now to see what happens...any suggestions plz ill try them all ... an i wanna say thanks for everybodys help so far.
Error message:
DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.NotFound: The given volume was not found
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well i just loaded up ubuntu and installed gparted...and once i inserted my sd reader errors came up saying that it was unable to mount my sd ...so im not sure what to do here..im gonna try and format now to see what happens...any suggestions plz ill try them all ... an i wanna say thanks for everybodys help so far.
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It cant mount anything cos your partition table is jacked up. Open gparted and just clear out whatever is in there and create a new partition table.
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It cant mount anything cos your partition table is jacked up. Open gparted and just clear out whatever is in there and create a new partition table.
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Well when I try and open gparted I get those errors and then it never opens up ...so is there another way to do this?
Gnome partition Is the same as gparted??
any 1? please?
i have been using nand/zip android roms since the beginning but 2 days ago i got a disturbing issue and i tried many nand/zip roms both froyo and ginger with no luck
whenever i unmount then remount the sd card , gallery and music applications stop recognizing my media files
i currently work around this by copying all media files to new locations but this is really disturbing
can any one assist me please
I'd try backing up the SD, formatting it, then putting your files back on and seeing if the problem persists first
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I'd try backing up the SD, formatting it, then putting your files back on and seeing if the problem persists first
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I already tried that ... and it did not work
come on guys
i really need assistance here
Does rebooting fix it?
No it does the same problem as if I unmounted the card
I also tried "sdrescan" application and it returned with the same problem
Please i need the solution
Try the "Multi Mount" app.
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Try the "Multi Mount" app.
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Already tried that , but with no good
Could be sectors on your card
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Could be sectors on your card
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So you are suggesting me to try another card ?
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So you are suggesting me to try another card ?
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either that or use a program to give it a full thorough format, not just a quick one
thorough format didn't help
FIXED
Using the program "[email protected] Kill Disk" i "Killed" my SDcard and the formatted it in android and now everything is fine
Thanks for any one who might have tried to help me
raoufn1984 said:
FIXED
Using the program "[email protected] Kill Disk" i "Killed" my SDcard and the formatted it in android and now everything is fine
Thanks for any one who might have tried to help me
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So you basically did a proper format like already advised. You obviously didnt do a proper oen before and maybe used windows standard full format etc.
In future if you wish to do a proper format of a SD card use Panasonic SD Card Formatter with following settings...
FULL (ERASE ON)
Size adjustment ON
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So you basically did a proper format like already advised. You obviously didnt do a proper oen before and maybe used windows standard full format etc.
In future if you wish to do a proper format of a SD card use Panasonic SD Card Formatter with following settings...
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I didn't know about this "Panasonic" program , although i did more than 4 hours of searching both in xda and google
anyway , i did try a proper format using a tool from site sdcard.org -or something like that- and it did take about the same amount of time with this "[email protected] kill disk" so I am not sure
anyway, the good thing is that it is now working
thanks anyway
hope you mentioned this program earlier
So I have this Issue I found my 16gb HD2(I no longer have the hd2) that's I guess corrupted I can view the files move them to my desktop but I cant format the SD, I tried my Nexus One, digital camera, Windows 7, Macbook,ubuntu, mini partition tool and testdisk with no results. I remember this issue happen when I tried to run android through SD maybe you guys know why. thanks
Some sd cards especially ones that have been bought on ebay or overseas have a memory hack in them. What happens is the sd card shows 16gb but in reality it may only have 6-10gb. The hack provides the sd card to show more space then is actually there. You can use it just fine with no problems at all but once you go over the actual memory it really has & not just shows you then get a slew of corrupted files on your sd card leaving it almost useless. This is only 1 example, others causes could be if you take an ad card out while you transferring files to it. In the end there is little you can do and what I would of suggested you've already tried. (minitool) this has helped me fix a card that I was transferring files when my power went out. This will probably not help but have you tried different ports on your computer? What happened when it was in you nexus?
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Some sd cards especially ones that have been bought on ebay or overseas have a memory hack in them. What happens is the sd card shows 16gb but in reality it may only have 6-10gb. The hack provides the sd card to show more space then is actually there. You can use it just fine with no problems at all but once you go over the actual memory it really has & not just shows you then get a slew of corrupted files on your sd card leaving it almost useless. This is only 1 example, others causes could be if you take an ad card out while you transferring files to it. In the end there is little you can do and what I would of suggested you've already tried. (minitool) this has helped me fix a card that I was transferring files when my power went out. This will probably not help but have you tried different ports on your computer? What happened when it was in you nexus?
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Yeah I learn this lesson on my chinese 32gb lol but on my 16gb sd was actually the one that came with the hd2 so I know for a fact is legit. everytime I put it on my N1 it tries to format it and then a message pops out saying card unmounted. I also tried my good old nokia n82 which usually Nokias are really good at formatting corrupted cards it doesn't give me the choice of formatting the card. Im wondering of their some type of lock on the sd card.
there is a really small lock on the front of a sd card but none that i know of on a micro sd. did you use the minitool partition wizard or the data recovery program? if you only used the partitioning wizard i would try the minitool data recovery program found here.
Running mini tool this is what I get it wont fix it though https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/3-oc0r_Bbv5qrYncR3IzCZaCRbbB6vENK-AyJ2O_CkI?feat=directlink
running minitool data or minitool partitioner? it looks like minitool data if i remember correctly. yeah, it says "minitool found errors on disk but will not fix them because diskcheck was run without fix parameters." i would try it again but select "check and fix detected errors" see if that helps. if it dont help then i would suggest to wait for advise from someone a little more knowledgeable about this.
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running minitool data or minitool partitioner? it looks like minitool data if i remember correctly. yeah, it says "minitool found errors on disk but will not fix them because diskcheck was run without fix parameters." i would try it again but select "check and fix detected errors" see if that helps. if it dont help then i would suggest to wait for advise from someone a little more knowledgeable about this.
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I tried using both none of them cant format the SD card or at least make it usable.
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I tried using both none of them cant format the SD card or at least make it usable.
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what about good ol' Check Disk from Windows Explorer?
Another program is SD Formatter 3.0.
Try it and play with the options.
SD formatter is pretty good i must say. Here is another one that might be of some use. I have a corrupted flash drive around somewhere so i'll try and find that. maybe I can play around with it to see what might work and report back. I would also take a look at this link as it provides some very useful information about sd cards. you can find that here, please make sure you read the section on "Formatting is required". This will explain why you may be running into problems along with what the cause might be.
Yea the same thing happened to me with my 8 gig card, i even tried formatting it at best buy and with a camera and still wouldn't format. So i just had to buy a new one.
I messed up two sd cards now nothing will detect them windows,android and ubuntu. Are there any free programs that will detect them and format it? or maybe a linux command ?
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I messed up two sd cards now nothing will detect them windows,android and ubuntu. Are there any free programs that will detect them and format it? or maybe a linux command ?
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If you can find an old Nokia phone it will format them, just leave the password blank
if not then...
On yuki/xbox ROM V2, install DEV_STORAGELOCK.cab through the WP7-Update-Cab-Sender then choose to unlock the card, if you let windows phone restart it will lock it again, so play about until you get it right, pop the card out and format it on whatever you like, thats you done
Awesome thanks I'll try it
You can format it entering in the bootloader and choosing "clean SD MBR" or something like that... it works here
Sorry my english, i'm Brazilian
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You can format it entering in the bootloader and choosing "clean SD MBR" or something like that... it works here
Sorry my english, i'm Brazilian
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That doesn erase the Secure partition, which is the bit that stops the SD card from being functional in any other device other than the one it was made on
I think that works here because i believe my ROM does not lock the card, cuz here he removed all locks!
Thanks!
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I think that works here because i believe my ROM does not lock the card, cuz here he removed all locks!
Thanks!
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Yuki/Xbox rom is designed to be as close to stock as possible hence the SD card locks are in place, other roms disabled that locking, to be honest id rather it on, someone steals my phone, nothing can be viewed without password, even if they pop the SD card in a pc, they maybe able to remove lock, but as well as locking the card it also encrypts it =)
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I was very surprised to find that my mac formats the card in disk utility.
or you just start StorageLock "Don't press the unlock button yet"!
Now change your sd-card, tap unlock. Programm will hang, put your own sd card back in. The "now unlocked" card, is readable for any media.
Good luck!
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I messed up two sd cards now nothing will detect them windows,android and ubuntu. Are there any free programs that will detect them and format it? or maybe a linux command ?
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Well thanks guys for all your help but I'm no longer on a windows rom couldn't get a registration key. Went back to android. Thank you for your replies
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This worked great for me !! Thanks.