Any tools to recover a Sandisk SD Card?

[chimpanzer]

Hi everyone,
I upgraded my XDA succesfully :D by using the SD method with a card from my digital camera. After that, I formated the sd card with the card reader then I plugged it in my digital camera.
And here is my problem, the digital camera doesn't recognise anymore this Hi-speed 512 sandisk. I tried everything to recover it but no success at all until now. :twisted:

I understand by using the OSI image tools, the card has been formated in a special way to make space for the file NK.nb1

So if someone has got any similar experience, be welcome to give me any tips for a solution.

Thanks.

[Rudegar]

i just formatted my card with my xda
and pocked mechanics

[cruisin-thru]

My digital camera has the option to format while in the camera, have you checked the built in menus? You could try formatting your card in the card reader with FAT16 if it is FAT 32 at the moment, if it is FAT 16 NOW then try FAT32.

[chimpanzer]

Hi guys,

Thanks for your reply.
Sorry I forgot to say. My XDA card reader and my PC card reader don't have any problem to read or write or format this SD card, Which I did. FAT and FAT 32, but there's no result for my digital camera.
Always the same message: " unable to use the card" and the SD Card was working perfectly before.

One strange thing I have noticed (I think) is that the memory capacity is different now. I get 6 Mb more than before.

Otherwise, yes I tried to format the card with the OS from my digital camera but without any success as the camera doesn't let me any possibility to access to the menu with the card plugged in it. I'm stuck.


Before to use OSI image tools the capacity was;

FAT: 477 MB

After:
FAT: Free space : 507109376 bytes => 483 MB
FAT 32: Free space: 506372096 bytes =>482 MB

I'm just wondering if maybe a header from this SD card was wiped out during the process. Maybe some of you guys know a software who could read and write on this special part of the SD card, then I would compare and maybe repaire it. :)

Thx

[chimpanzer]

Hi,
Is it possible that someone try to plug a sd card who was used to flash a PDA in a digital camera minolta Z3 or other Z...?

I would be interrested to get a feed back on the result.

Cheers,

[chimpanzer]

Finally after several Emails to (Minolta and Sandisk) I got a valuable answer from Minolta who confirmed my first thought. BTW, Sandisk never replied to me, I’m very disappointed by them. Fortunately, there are others competitors in this sector.
Guess what for the next new SDcard…

So:
On each SD card (Others models certainly too), there are several important information on the boot. This information is necessary to inform the digital camera on the technical specification from the SDcard. If the original boot is missing or corrupted, the digital camera doesn’t recognize the SD card properly and screen the following message “Unable to use this card”.

And here is the solution to recover an original boot for your SD card. You should use SDFormatter V1.1 .
Now my SD card is like a new one(only joking) .

Cheers,