Formatting Sd Cards Without An Sd Reader?

[Jaw]

hi, having trouble formatting sd cards. one of my sd cards is corrupted and needs a reformat, but there is no way in winxp to do it, format says it's not formattable, and there's no options on the gp2x i can find.

anyone able to help?

 

[Paradox]

weird that it says its not formatable..its not got the write protection switch on has it?

 

[nickspoon]

So... you plugged in your GP2X and tried to reformat the card through that?

 

[Paradox]

oh wait i read the thread title wrong..*brain spasm*

 

[aapje89]

hi, having trouble formatting sd cards. one of my sd cards is corrupted and needs a reformat, but there is no way in winxp to do it, format says it's not formattable, and there's no options on the gp2x i can find.

anyone able to help?

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you could try mkdosfs.

 

[Jaw]

nice one, mkdosfs started to format cheers!

 

[killen]

nice one, mkdosfs started to format cheers!

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I have a warning about cheep SD cards on Ebay. I got my 2gb Sandisk card and everything worked until i tried to format it to fat32. I couldn¨t do that i just got an error saying it got a I/O error.

I got in touch with Sandisk support and got a mail after a few days saying that the card wasnt made by them. So i did some searching on google and found that there is a lot of very cheap fake SD cards that is reprogramed to look bigger then they really are.

So dont try to get the cheapest card you can find on Ebay. I couldnt tell the difference between a real and a fake card. And mine came with the "orginial" box and everything.

 

[nickspoon]

My friend was very pissed off when he realised his 1GB USB Flash disk that he got for £5 in China was actually only 16MB.

 

[aapje89]

nice one, mkdosfs started to format cheers!

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nop problem,


@nickspoon: LOL :lol: , i never heard of these kind of things... how nasty.

 

[lol2232]

Do magnets erase SD cards like a hard drive?

 

[aapje89]

No, i dont think so.... but YOU could try it

 

[Polymira]

No, magnets don't erase data on an SD card (trust me), and any magnet you would have in your home couldn't destroy data on a hard drive, only the industrial degausers found in university and law enforcment settings will... (hard drives have huge magnets IN them for christs sake)...

But yeah, i bought a 2gb sandisk off of ebay, for $112 shipped (how much i originally paid for my 1gb MS Duo) and it's perfect as advertised... do you guys actually research the seller before buying?