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Storage Card contents dissapeared. Help!

all of a sudden i realized my storage card's content (2GB) just dissapeared.
I have over half of my non OEM programs installed on it and i cannot use them.
has this happened to anyone before?
how do i fix this?
thanks

Well... It happened to me in some way, but after about a minute all was back again. Don't really know why. Maybe soft reset would help?

I had that issue a while ago, apparently it was gone, but the space was still occupied. I didn't find a solution so i had to reformat it and it never happened again.

This exact same thing happened to me yesterday; all of a sudden, when using Resco Explorer, all of the contents of my storage card disappeared. The card looked blank. However, it also still looked like the space was occupied - meaning I did not have 6 GB of free/empty space - just no content. I re-formatted the card on my desktop and am re-syncing now but I have no idea how or why this happened. I have not recently installed any new software.

Nothing disappeared. Turn off the phone, take the card out and put it back in, then turn the phone on. Did you even soft reset first?

ronfin44 said:
Nothing disappeared. Turn off the phone, take the card out and put it back in, then turn the phone on. Did you even soft reset first?
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Tried it didnt work. I guess i have to re format

This happened to me and it was from a loose card and a soft reset found my data.

Soft reset didnt help. I tried a hard reset and Nothing. Its like my device cannot recognise my sd card at all. when i check in the setting it says the storage card is not installed.
what do i do?

I can say that it happened to me because I installed a P2P program and it froze and I had to reset. THen my sotrage card got messed up.
It's like any flash memory. If it's in the middle of writing and your phone gets turned off or something then you will corrupt your data. I don't know if you can buy some third party program to get your stuff back. maybe.

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I had this problem too.....Here's a couple of things you can do
1) take out sd card , take compressed air and blow a little air inside where sd card goes , put card back in and do it slowly wiggle it ever so slightly , take out sd card and do this one more time , this worked for me.
2) in file explorer under "storage card" look for a file called " MSMETADATA ...and DELETE it for some reason this file freezes your device from reading you card
3) go to windows media player and go to library and update your library , see if your sd card shows up there , thats the way I knew my phone was reading my card
4) bad card....I have had a bad card before and it was doing the same , I bought a new one and things got better
good luck my friend
mike

this happened several times on my 8525, and once on my tilt. I've never pinpointed exactly what happened, but it IS a big problem that was supposedly fixed by HTC on the tilt.
I stuck the card in my computer and ran some data recovery tools. They dont always work, but you get lucky sometimes. I then formated the card and copied the data back.

ronfin44 said:
Nothing disappeared. Turn off the phone, take the card out and put it back in, then turn the phone on. Did you even soft reset first?
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I turned the phone on and off several times and did several soft resets; I also went into Windows Media Player and attempted to update my library but it would not read my storage card. Neither would the "HTC Audio" program, or CorePLayer, or Resco File Explorer/Photo Viewer; nothing would even recognize the card. Also, when I used a card reader in my PC nothing appeared either. I had to re-format and re-copy my files.

Hey guys, thanks for your advise.
Im gonna buy a new microSD card and see if my kaiser recognises it. Hopefully it does. If so thats great.
Just hope its not the phone with the problem.
i'll let u know whats up

by reformat...do u mean hard reset?

Try this:
With the card in a read/writer or adapter that works (not the phone), go into DOS: Start>Program Files>Accessories>Command Prompt or Start>Run and type in CMD and Okay.
Change the directory to C: drive (i.e. cd\C: )
Type chkdsk e: /f /r at the c: prompt (e: is whatever your card drive is).
Let it run. If it asks about saving a file, you may as well say NO as it will be corrupted or a partial file.
Then EXIT and try the card. Data, for the most part, should still be there and not destructed like FORMAT will do.
Mack

bluemamba said:
by reformat...do u mean hard reset?
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No - by re-format I mean I inserted the card into a card reader and re-formatted it as "FAT32" on my desktop PC. I tried to do his on my phone first with SK Tools and MemMaid but neither would recognize the card.

Well. My SDcard (scandisk) is not recognised by my phone or my card reader, so i could not format it.
I bought a new Kingston one and my phone recognises it.
I guess it was the card after all.

Mack5305 said:
Try this:
With the card in a read/writer or adapter that works (not the phone), go into DOS: Start>Program Files>Accessories>Command Prompt or Start>Run and type in CMD and Okay.
Change the directory to C: drive (i.e. cd\C: )
Type chkdsk e: /f /r at the c: prompt (e: is whatever your card drive is).
Let it run. If it asks about saving a file, you may as well say NO as it will be corrupted or a partial file.
Then EXIT and try the card. Data, for the most part, should still be there and not destructed like FORMAT will do.
Mack
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I had the same problem: after something went wrong with an install file from my card on my Kaiser, all files on the card were deleted.
I was able to retreive the card content on my PC (from a card reaceder) with the free program "PC Inspector File Recovery".
After that, I restored the content to the card. I performed a checkdisk (see Mack5305 above). I then removed the directory MSMETADATA.
After this, I could use the card again.

Displays but will not open files on storage card

NOTE: I FIXED MY PROBLEM MYSELF. I kept the thread in case anyone else has this problem, you might know the fix....explained under the quote (quote = original post)
Out of nowhere my kaiser errors now on startup (with startup apps or if I manually try to open them from programs folder) saying it cannot open any of the programs located on the memory card (says "either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found"). My ringtones on the card won't play and the error states they may be corrupt or unavailable.
So basically, all of the files are there...the phone "lists" them in file explorer....it just wont open anything (including when I click on files in file explorer....it doesnt do anything...just highlights them). It will open programs and files off the device's main storage just fine.
I have removed the card and placed it in a reader, and the card is just fine....all files open perfectly.
Has anyone else had this problem? I have never damaged the phone or got it wet or anything.
It made me late to work because the alarm (appointment in calender) didn't go off (error'd on playing the tone). I really need to get this fix.
Thanks a million in advance!
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What had happened is that I have inbox tmp files or something pointed to save on the memory card....but at some point yesterday the memory card was ejected slightly in the port (so the phone counldnt save to it) and I must have received a message or something because it saved to that directory. Since the card was not there, it created a folder named "Storage Card"...thus when I found my card ejected, and clicked it back in yesterday, it named the card Storage Card 2....since a directory already had the orig name. Thus....since all programs and ringtones and such look at "Storage Card" .....all heck broke loose. I deleted the folder and re-inserted the card and did a soft restart...and everything was back to normal.

Thank you for your post.. I jsut had the EXACT same problem... and deleting "Storage card" folder and soft reset fixed mine as well.. whew...!1! Thansk for saving my tail!

Kaiser can't read my microSD card

Help! My Kaiser can't read my memory card!
After having transferred a few media files to my Kaiser's microSD card using Activesync's "explore" function, I noticed some folders with gibberish names had been generated in the My Documents folder. I tried opening some of them and found nothing in them. I dismissed this and continued with the file transfer. The strangely-named files eventually disappeared
Shortly after, I disconnected the Kaiser from my laptop, and started the Audio Manager, as I was on my way to the gym. An error message popped up saying the "file Audio Manager cannot be opened..."
I can't remember what prompted me to do so, but I opened the File Manager and discovered that my Storage Card was not registering anymore. That said, I had to settle with the gym's crappy music, instead of my the playlists on my Kaiser
Coming back from the gym I popped the memory card (2GB Kingston microSD) into my card reader and my laptop was able to read all its contents.
This morning I tried a friend's microSD card (same make & model) and my Kaiser still couldn't read it.
Is this a hardware or software problem? If the latter, how can I rectify this?
Thanks in advance for any input.

Put it in your computer's card reader and do a filesystem check.

rigelstuff said:
Help! My Kaiser can't read my memory card!
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Watch out because Kaisers are well known for loosing whats on a microSD card (I've had this happen 3 times now) so I hope you have backed up everything of importance on your card before going any further.
I can't remember what prompted me to do so, but I opened the File Manager and discovered that my Storage Card was not registering anymore. That said, I had to settle with the gym's crappy music, instead of my the playlists on my Kaiser
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I cant help with changing the gyms music but when you say "wasn't registering anymore" do you mean no files were showing in file manager (ie possibly corrupted/lost files - you never mentioned if you checked the file integrity on your laptop) or that under settings => memory => storage card tab, nothing is showing (whats in there)?
Is this a hardware or software problem? If the latter, how can I rectify this?
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If it's software try a soft reset and if that doesn't fix it then back up your data and perform a hard reset (make sure the card is out of the device when you do this) - this is the Windows Mobile equivalent of running a recovery CDROM on a desktop PC and it will restore your devices files and settings to an 'as from the factory' state (assuming you've not changed the ROM/Radio or SPL since). Let us know how you get on.

Flying Kiwi said:
Watch out because Kaisers are well known for loosing whats on a microSD card (I've had this happen 3 times now) so I hope you have backed up everything of importance on your card before going any further.
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I wasn't able to do a backup (didn't have Sprite Backup installed yet), but have manually saved all the files to my laptop.
Flying Kiwi said:
when you say "wasn't registering anymore" do you mean no files were showing in file manager (ie possibly corrupted/lost files - you never mentioned if you checked the file integrity on your laptop) or that under settings => memory => storage card tab, nothing is showing (whats in there)?
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"Storage Card" doesn't show up in File Manager at all. I'll try doing a file system check on my laptop.
Flying Kiwi said:
If it's software try a soft reset and if that doesn't fix it then back up your data and perform a hard reset (make sure the card is out of the device when you do this) - this is the Windows Mobile equivalent of running a recovery CDROM on a desktop PC and it will restore your devices files and settings to an 'as from the factory' state (assuming you've not changed the ROM/Radio or SPL since). Let us know how you get on.
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Already did a soft reset several times, didn't help. I was hoping to avoid doing a hard reset, but if it's the only way...
Much thanks for all your input

Sprite Backup not reqd for microSD backup
rigelstuff said:
I wasn't able to do a backup (didn't have Sprite Backup installed yet), but have manually saved all the files to my laptop.
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It's easier than that... If you have Win XP (and probably Vista has an equivalent option), there is an often under utilised program under Start => Accessories => System Tools called 'Backup'. If you put your microSD card into it's USB reader, this program will do everything you need and it's very simple to use.
"Storage Card" doesn't show up in File Manager at all.
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I understand that but what appears under start => settings => memory => storage card tab (tap those in that order)?
I'll try doing a file system check on my laptop.
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As already suggested by khaytsus, that'd be a good idea to try before going down the last ditch hard reset route.

Flying Kiwi said:
It's easier than that... If you have Win XP (and probably Vista has an equivalent option), there is an often under utilised program under Start => Accessories => System Tools called 'Backup'. If you put your microSD card into it's USB reader, this program will do everything you need and it's very simple to use.
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Interesting... thanks for this. There aren't really any critical files in my memory card, so a simple copy of whatever's in the My Documents folder will do.
Flying Kiwi said:
I understand that but what appears under start => settings => memory => storage card tab (tap those in that order)?
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Make that "memory => System => storage card..." ;-)
Nothing shows in the storage card tab. That's what I meant when I said the phone doesn't recognise the card.
Flying Kiwi said:
As already suggested by khaytsus, that'd be a good idea to try before going down the last ditch hard reset route.
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Thanks.

rigelstuff said:
Interesting... thanks for this. There aren't really any critical files in my memory card, so a simple copy of whatever's in the My Documents folder will do.
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The advantage with using backup is it automatically throws it all into a simple single archive and saves things such as the label on your card but yes if you have a simple set up a straight copy is an option. Bottom line is that additional software isn't needed for microSD card backups.
Make that "memory => System => storage card..." ;-)
Nothing shows in the storage card tab. That's what I meant when I said the phone doesn't recognise the card.
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Yes, you're right I missed the 'System'. Thats the place where I'd trust more than file explorer to actually indicate whether the card is being read. Let us know how you get on!

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rigelstuff said:
Help! My Kaiser can't read my memory card!
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Thanks in advance for any input.
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I tested a friend's card from his TyTN II and put it into my phone and there was still no memory card detected. I gave him my card, and his phone was able to detect it.
I finally did a hard reset, reformatted my card, and the phone still can't detect the card!
It seems the problem may well be hardware-related. Looks like I'll have to send my phone in to HTC to be checked.
Thanks again to everyone who chimed in. 'will still give an update on how things go.
ta

Got my unit back from the HTC service centre. They had to replace the part that contacts the memory card. The old one was toast. And to think I've only had this phone for just over a year now.
Had to pay about USD120 for the part

i've had my memory card not read all the files on it two times now but recently i've kept the file heirarchy intact and havent made any new folders on the phone and it seems to be ok

[solved] Card "Preparing SD card; Checking for errors"

Hi all,
I have a problem with my G1, running on latest Cyanogen mod. After restarting the card cannot be read and it is seems to be checking the sd card, if it really happens I dunno. What is weird is that I can access the card from recovery mode (shell), and it is not damaged (at least the windows doesn't detect damage while it is in the card reader. So that implies that the problem might be in the Android system.. anybody has a clue how to solve this? Thanks a lot.
Edit: solved it, deleted fsck_msdos from bin and it works flawlessly again

Can always wipe and reflash. Or if you have another sd card laying around and put that in to see if it recognizes it.

I'm having the same problem How did you delete the fsck_msdos from the bin?

theinstagator said:
I'm having the same problem How did you delete the fsck_msdos from the bin?
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your phone should rooted
then download and install root explorer
in the root explorer go to
system /bin
and delete fsck_msdos
now reboot your phone

I was having this same issue..it would typically take up to 5 minutes or more to "check for errors" after a boot.
To fix this I backed up my sdcard, reformatted, copied everything back, then reflashed. Everything was fine after that.

i have somewhat the same problem but in my case it sometimes say blank sdcard or damged sd card it read fine when plugged into an sd card reader any help

Thanks. It worked by simply deleting fsck-msdos but it keeps giving SwiftKey3 error " unable to load language packs". Keyboard still OK. I have xperia x10 mini rooted running android 2.1 E10i.

hmaxos said:
Thanks. It worked by simply deleting fsck-msdos but it keeps giving SwiftKey3 error " unable to load language packs". Keyboard still OK. I have xperia x10 mini rooted running android 2.1 E10i.
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Well, after getting other errors such as "no enough space" from Platinum Backup (there was a space on SD Card), I had to go to Format the SD after copying everything. Then I copied back the important folder the SD. I also had to reinstall SwiftKey. Now everything is fine and no data loss.

SD card Checking for errors
sajjji said:
your phone should rooted
then download and install root explorer
in the root explorer go to
system /bin
and delete fsck_msdos
now reboot your phone
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Well I will try to backup and format it.... If it works then good if not then I will have to root my LG P880 .

My Problem is "preparing external sd card checking for errors" now that error is not showing while following above steps but now when i click my memory card that is not opening and after opened my memory card my internal device memory also not opening .

baka.yarou said:
Hi all,
I have a problem with my G1, running on latest Cyanogen mod. After restarting the card cannot be read and it is seems to be checking the sd card, if it really happens I dunno. What is weird is that I can access the card from recovery mode (shell), and it is not damaged (at least the windows doesn't detect damage while it is in the card reader. So that implies that the problem might be in the Android system.. anybody has a clue how to solve this? Thanks a lot.
Edit: solved it, deleted fsck_msdos from bin and it works flawlessly again
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Simple fix, Difficult decision. Remove SD Card from slot then Factory reset phone. Once it comes too just go through all steps to setting up device then reinsert the SD Card into the slot. BOOM!

thank you very very much it worked for me
baka.yarou said:
Hi all,
I have a problem with my G1, running on latest Cyanogen mod. After restarting the card cannot be read and it is seems to be checking the sd card, if it really happens I dunno. What is weird is that I can access the card from recovery mode (shell), and it is not damaged (at least the windows doesn't detect damage while it is in the card reader. So that implies that the problem might be in the Android system.. anybody has a clue how to solve this? Thanks a lot.
Edit: solved it, deleted fsck_msdos from bin and it works flawlessly again
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thank you so much but it is read only please help

yeah...
supremeteam256 said:
Can always wipe and reflash. Or if you have another sd card laying around and put that in to see if it recognizes it.
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i am having same issue i always changes roms please can you halp me..

still not working mine is lenovo K3 Note And my Phone is rooted. It is showing Preparing SD card checking for errors

Didn't work for me.
Hard reset don't work.
Delete the fsck.msdos but don't work.
The fsck.msdos file comes on every wipe back.
I think this is a cm issue.
On stock no problems with my external sd card on my HTC One M8.
I'm going crazy...

No need to go to bin.. just put ur SD card in other mobile.. it will show fcsk files when u open the SD card.. just delete those files. Then remove the SD card and put it back in Ur mobile.. Then restart it mobile.. problem solved..,,,

Anitha Sivakumar said:
No need to go to bin.. just put ur SD card in other mobile.. it will show fcsk files when u open the SD card.. just delete those files. Then remove the SD card and put it back in Ur mobile.. Then restart it mobile.. problem solved..,,,
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ive deleted the fcsk file on bin
the notif "preparing sd card" was gone but another problem occured, i cant even open my storage, ext sd card and even internal card ive tried your solution, ive put my sd card on another device, i cant find any fcsk files that you mention i cant even delete any file from my card using another mobile :crying::crying::crying:

It worked.... Thanks bro..
:good:
sajjji said:
your phone should rooted
then download and install root explorer
in the root explorer go to
system /bin
and delete fsck_msdos
now reboot your phone
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sajjji said:
your phone should rooted
then download and install root explorer
in the root explorer go to
system /bin
and delete fsck_msdos
now reboot your phone
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Bloody Brilliant. I have no idea why I could not find this solution two years ago. I have spent several hours searching for this solution, several times. In my case, I needed to remove the fsck.exfat file in the /system/bin folder.
My attention span is extremely short. I have been living with a 3 to 4-minute card scan for a 256GB microSD in my Samsung Note 3 for two and a half years. For all of the reboots I have done (which must be near a thousand, if that's not severely underestimated) I have had to deal with waiting to use my phone. I can't tell you how discouraging it has been to have such a powerful, useful device crippled by such a stupid flaw: that of checking the SD card that you rarely remove, for errors, every single time the phone is rebooted, even after graceful reboots called by the "proper" methods.
I can't tell you how many times I have rebooted my phone, only to forget the reason I rebooted it, because my phone took 4 minutes to reboot.
Productivity to the cubed-root.​Pisses me off.
Someone who has more voice than me please get the Android People to change this. As of Nougat, this is still the default behavior. How can an organization be so stupid...? I have no doubt that just this flaw has sent many people to the Apple camps. Who the cuff in their right mind would want to deal with such a hassle?? Are they seriously unaware of the trend for people to actually believe that their devices, machines and technology ought to be doing things faster than previous generations?
(Please just take the following cynicism with a grain of salt. I just learned the above fix, something I really should have figured out a long time ago/kicking myself!!) :crying:
For the anally-inverted who might bring up the obvious argument that your phone will no longer be able to detect or fix corruption, all that needs to be done is the following:
1) move the fsck.exfat (or whatever the formatting) file to a different folder. In my case I moved it to the /data folder
2) use some delay scripting program that will symlink the fsck.exfat file to a tmpfs location say, 30 seconds after boot; or longer if needed. This intermediary step is necessary in order to create a temporary symlink, which will be nonexistent upon reboot.. If we didn't create a temporary symlink, the fsck.exfat command would be immediately available after each reboot (which we don't want) because symlinks are normally permanent. Therefore, this step will need to be run after every reboot (but again, time-delayed).
3) the last command is to create another symlink, linking the tmpfs fsck.exfat symlink created in the last step back to the /system/bin folder (or wherever it originally resided). So this is a symlink of another symlink. This step actually should only need to be done once, since this symlink should remain after reboot, even though it is initially broken upon reboot until the previous command recreates the intermediary symlink. It should become effective again when the previous step is run by the time-delayed scripting program.
Now your phone has the ability to check the card upon you calling the fsck.exfat routine through normal means, one of which can just be a simple unmount -> mount request from the Android system settings . Your card won't be needlessly fsck-checked to death every bloody time you reboot your phone.
(If you found this tutorial helpful and desire to quote or improve upon it, please cite/credit me for the inspiration! It came through much effort and learning!)

weird problem

hello everyone...i have a weird problem...i tried searching here and google it but nothing about it..basicaly...when i move video files from main storage to memory card they disappear right there ,like if i deleted them..tried everything rebooting without memory card and inserting it afterwards and even trying to recover deleted files by a software..nothing worked.your feedback would be appreciated ,..thanks for your help and hard work..
lost all my videos just like that

camillia said:
hello everyone...i have a weird problem...i tried searching here and google it but nothing about it..basicaly...when i move video files from main storage to memory card they disappear right there ,like if i deleted them..tried everything rebooting without memory card and inserting it afterwards and even trying to recover deleted files by a software..nothing worked.your feedback would be appreciated ,..thanks for your help and hard work..
lost all my videos just like that
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sry to hear that
as of now I dont have an idea
just to understand it better: did you transfer them while sd was in x1? if yes, via active sync\wmdc or disk drive mode?
in the former connect method data is converted, but even then it should not dissappear completely...

what i did is just cut and paste using resco explorer and windows file explorer and the weird thing is that it only happens with video files and it still happening ,its not a one time thing.
thank you for replying

i hoped this is a known issue..i guess it's not common or known problem