On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:27:01 -0700 "Bill W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > I had a similar card that 'lost' it's formatting due to file > management using a card reader. I found out later that the xD cards > are meant to be formatted and file managed within the camera (or > other native device) and they may be screwed up by deleting or > writing files using the reader. I actually went and bought the proper > reader (Olympus in my case) to avoid any more of these hassles. > The only way I found to recover a lost xD card was with a little > formatting utility that I found on the web. It came with a file > recovery utility so you can recover deleted files off of a (any) > flash card. Anyway, the prog is a dos program that runs under wine or > that other OS if you have it available. > It is called aperase.exe and the file recovery prog is called > photorec.exe. They are both freeware and are easily found on Google. > I now use a generic card reader only to copy to my hard drive and any > deleting or formatting is done on my camera. Wow! I didn't realize that xD cards were so high maintenance. I'll give it a try and see what happens. Thanks! > > HTH, > Bill W. > > > Travis Crook wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> I have a 32MB xD card and card reader. I use it to transfer > >> files between my laptop (running cooker at the moment - very nice > >> by the way) and a computer running WindowsXP. The last time I had > >> it in the XP box it didn't want to unmount correctly. In the > >> process Windows somehow messed it up. Is there a way to format it > >> back to it's original 32MB? All I get now in Windows is "This > >> disk is not formatted, would you like to format it now?" and it > >> offers to format a 14MB disk. On the laptop I only see a SCSI > >> disk that I can't mount. > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > > You can use diskdrake for this, or cfdisk and mkdosfs. Probably the > > simplest way would be to run "cfdisk /dev/sda" and delete the > > current partition. Then create a new FAT partition that uses the > > entire disk. If cfdisk does not see the full size of the card, you > > may end up having to use dd to erase the partition table and start > > over. (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=1) > > > > One thing to keep in mind - if you have real SCSI drives, or other > > USB storage devices plugged in, the card may not be /dev/sda, but > > another SCSI device. This is especialy true with some multi-format > > card readers. > > > > Mikkel > > -- > > > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > > for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ____________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? > > Go to http://store.mandriva.com > > Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com > > ____________________________________________________ > > > > -- Travis Crook Visions Beyond www.VisionsBeyond.com 208-478-7836
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