SD card keeps formatting and changing file system.
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Posted by twdo on July 26, 2008, 10:33 pm
Please log in for more thread options between my Motorola Q (cell phone), my laptop, and my desktop. The problem that I am having is that when I get the card formatted and get all the files and directories onto the card that I want to keep, it completely wipes itself clean and changes the file system to look as though I just took it out of my digital camera. For example. I just wiped it clean and copied over 2 folders from my laptop. I copied 1 folder named MP3 and another folder named Dev. Within the MP3 folder I had about 100 MP3s and within the Dev folder I had a few web development projects. The structure looked like this. /MP3 - Song1.mp3 - Blah.mp3 - etc - etc /Dev - /SomeWebsite.com - index.aspx - index.aspx.vb - blah.html - etc - etc After taking it out of my laptop, I popped it into my cell phone and saw all of my files. I moved a new MP3 from my cell phone to the SD card. I popped the card out and into my desktop's card reader. The card formatted and defaulted to the structure below. /DCIM - /100HP733 /MISC - AUTPRINT.MRK So, from my desktop, I deleted everything once again and copied over a structure similiar to what I did the first time. I took the card out of my desktop's card reader and popped it into my laptop. Once again, the card wiped itself clean and it took the exact same structure it did the last time it formatted on its own (DCIM, MISC). Thinking it may be a card issue, I went out and got a new 2 GB card and the same thing keeps happening. What is going on? Am I totally losing my mind? Please help me out here. I KNOW that this can't be the intended behavior of SD cards; otherwise, what is the point of using them for anything but a digital camera? Any help is appreciated. Thank you in advance. - John | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Grinder on July 26, 2008, 11:04 pm
Please log in for more thread options Just shooting away in the dark: Perhaps you have some sort of really aggressive media manager on your PC. Windows Media Player, for instance, tries to identify MP3 players when they've been connected in order to manage their contents. Practically any USB mass storage can look like an MP3 to such programs. It recreates the same file structure every time? You're right in that it looks like it's prepping the card for use with an HP digital camera. Do you, in fact have an HP Photosmart 733? Did you install any software for that camera? Check out the settings for that software if you did, or completely uninstalling it to see if you can get it to leave your memory card alone. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by kony on July 27, 2008, 12:55 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:33:07 -0700 (PDT), twdo
>I have a 1 GB SD card that I want to use as a way to move files
>between my Motorola Q (cell phone), my laptop, and my desktop. The >problem that I am having is that when I get the card formatted and get >all the files and directories onto the card that I want to keep, it >completely wipes itself clean and changes the file system to look as >though I just took it out of my digital camera. > >For example. I just wiped it clean and copied over 2 folders from my >laptop. How exactly did you wipe it clean? Go into windows Disk Management and create one partition, formatted as FAT32 IF your phone can handle FAT32, if it can't then use FAT(16). >I copied 1 folder named MP3 and another folder named Dev.
>Within the MP3 folder I had about 100 MP3s and within the Dev folder I >had a few web development projects. The structure looked like this. > >/MP3 > - Song1.mp3 > - Blah.mp3 > - etc > - etc > >/Dev > - /SomeWebsite.com > - index.aspx > - index.aspx.vb > - blah.html > - etc > - etc > >After taking it out of my laptop, I popped it into my cell phone and >saw all of my files. >I moved a new MP3 from my cell phone to the SD >card. Try this again, but this time only confirm your cell phone can see the files, but do not write anything from the cell phone to the card, then take it out and see if it is still losing the files. >I popped the card out and into my desktop's card reader. The
>card formatted and defaulted to the structure below. > >/DCIM > - /100HP733 > >/MISC > - AUTPRINT.MRK > Try this again but don't put it in the desktop, see what is visible from the laptop. Is it possible you have some kind of DRM laden application for (an MP3 player/etc or from some audio CD) on either or both the laptop and desktop? >So, from my desktop, I deleted everything once again and copied over a
>structure similiar to what I did the first time. I took the card out >of my desktop's card reader and popped it into my laptop. Once again, >the card wiped itself clean and it took the exact same structure it >did the last time it formatted on its own (DCIM, MISC). > >Thinking it may be a card issue, I went out and got a new 2 GB card >and the same thing keeps happening. What is going on? Am I totally >losing my mind? Please help me out here. I KNOW that this can't be the >intended behavior of SD cards; otherwise, what is the point of using >them for anything but a digital camera? True, this is not due to it being an SD card, I move stuff around all the time from camera, MP3 player, desktop and laptop with one - though I usually use a USB thumbdrive instead but you don't have that option with a cellphone. Either one of the *systems* is choosing to reformat the card every time it writes to it because of some firmware flaw, or one has some application resident that is doing it instead. Be sure to keep looking at the partition and filesystem info in Disk Management to see if this changes, and how much free space there is in case it is creating a 2nd partition and hiding it... not that I'd expect it to but this is a strange case. | |||||||||||||
> between my Motorola Q (cell phone), my laptop, and my desktop. The
> problem that I am having is that when I get the card formatted and get
> all the files and directories onto the card that I want to keep, it
> completely wipes itself clean and changes the file system to look as
> though I just took it out of my digital camera.
>
> For example. I just wiped it clean and copied over 2 folders from my
> laptop. I copied 1 folder named MP3 and another folder named Dev.
> Within the MP3 folder I had about 100 MP3s and within the Dev folder I
> had a few web development projects. The structure looked like this.
>
> /MP3
> - Song1.mp3
> - Blah.mp3
> - etc
> - etc
>
> /Dev
> - /SomeWebsite.com
> - index.aspx
> - index.aspx.vb
> - blah.html
> - etc
> - etc
>
> After taking it out of my laptop, I popped it into my cell phone and
> saw all of my files. I moved a new MP3 from my cell phone to the SD
> card. I popped the card out and into my desktop's card reader. The
> card formatted and defaulted to the structure below.
>
> /DCIM
> - /100HP733
>
> /MISC
> - AUTPRINT.MRK
>
> So, from my desktop, I deleted everything once again and copied over a
> structure similiar to what I did the first time. I took the card out
> of my desktop's card reader and popped it into my laptop. Once again,
> the card wiped itself clean and it took the exact same structure it
> did the last time it formatted on its own (DCIM, MISC).
>
> Thinking it may be a card issue, I went out and got a new 2 GB card
> and the same thing keeps happening. What is going on? Am I totally
> losing my mind? Please help me out here. I KNOW that this can't be the
> intended behavior of SD cards; otherwise, what is the point of using
> them for anything but a digital camera?
>
> Any help is appreciated. Thank you in advance.
> - John