XDArit tells me SD card not formatted

[Joe_PDA]

I backed up my ROM from my XDA onto an SD card.

When I run XDArit, it reports that card is not formatted, do I want to format it? I just noticed that trying to read the card in file manager, I get the same message.

I remember when I did the ROM backup I chose CE + BOOT.

What is wrong?

[Qman]

Try using XDArit version 1.0 which can be download from the software section at: http://www.yorch.net

[Joe_PDA]

Qman
This version seemed better but was a bit confusing.

When run it asks me to chose read from or write to SD card.
I chose "read from"

Then it brings up window to choose files to read for
Bootloader and
Windows CE

There is a directory button labelled ".." to the right of these.
When I click on them it brings up a box that asks me to "save as"

If I add *.nb0 for boot and *.nb1 for CE, I get a device failed message.

However, when I try to read the SD card through file manager on my PC, I get the same "device not formatted" error.

HELP!

[ianlake]

i seem to remember reading somewhere on these forums that the pc cannot read the sd card once the image has been written, so you will receive 'device not formatted errors' although it is likely that the data is on the card.

[Qman]

Confirming you're using XDArit 1.0 version?

Also your saved ROM is not saved in a standard windows FAT format so Windows Explorer wants to format it so it can read/write it

As far as "Read from SD card" goes just use a name something like xda.nb1 for Windows CE and xda.nb0 for the bootloader.

[Joe_PDA]

Qman

Noted about saved ROM format. That must be why file manager does not recognize card.

Yes I'm using XDArit 1.0

There are 5 different disks to read from in the drop down menu. All have the same name and report the same error, "Failed Device"
"failed to open and read device ()"

when I tried using the names you suggested.

[Qman]

There are 5 different disks to read from in the drop down menu. All have the same name and report the same error, "Failed Device"
"failed to open and read device ()"

when I tried using the names you suggested.

Now thats strange, because you should at least be able to read your hard drive! What of PC SD card reader are you using?

[xdaguru]

I had the same problem with "format the card" message and guessed that wasn't really the problem.

I couldn't get "write to SD" to work, it kept saying "failed to write" or somthing like that, so following this thread I tried the same thing with the older version of XDArit and it worked!!

My xda is back from the dead.

Thanks guys.

[tenzin]

Same for me, and everything's OK , using XDArit old version :D

Thanks a lot guys for all the wonderful job you're doing on this site and forum !!!! You're GREAT :!:

[Joe_PDA]

The old version of XDArit did get me farther along in the process.
However I still end up not able to read from the SD card with my ROM.

Qman,

I'm using a Dazzle 6 in 1 card reader, which works well for all other reading /writing I do.

Although there are 5 disks in the drop down menu, they all have the same name, although the program recognizes them as 1-5.

I know that after the backup process I saw the "completed" message.

[AE]

Here is another trick with xdarit:

Situation: Win2000 Advanced Server / Win2003 Enterprise Server, two different motherboards.
PQI TravelFlash "5in1" or PQI TravelFlash "6in1" (behaves similar).
No USB hosts
New or "old" XDARit version are the same.

Problem: Unable to read image from SD with "reading success" message after 1 second but resulting file size is 1k instead of 32Mb

Solution (at least it 100% works for me): just write something to XD with XDARit. After this all read/write operation are really success until xdaRit not restarted.