Corrupt SD-Card 2 Gb

[Sultix]

hello,

i copied in the morning some folders into sdcard via.. card reader...
then i went off with the card..

on the way.. i found out.. my sd card was empty somehow..

i softresetted, nothing fixed it..
when i refresh and view all files.. i see only strange characters and strange folder names..

and the sizes all together looks like 50 GB.

but in fact the pda tells me.. there is only 1,7 GB free instead 1,9 GB..

my sd card is 150x Adata 2 GB..

how can i fix this .. please help me out.. i dun wanna reformat this card, as i have important files on it.

[st3v3]

yup you are the proud owner of a broken partition (very common with Fat16 and mobile devices)

from expereince ive found it happens alot with Fat16 and lots and lots of files (like those found in many of the better games or if you have alot loaded onto the card)

my recomendation is to get to a card reader and get some partition management software ( i like the trial version of Partition manager) and rebuild the partition on the card.

let me know how you go,

[Ultimate Chicken]

You can try downloading PC Inspector File Recovery, and running it on the card. It's freeware, and should work well given your card is formatted with an older filesystem.

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

You'll likely have to reformat your card, but at least you'll get your files back. If you do have to reformat, and your device supports FAT32, please format your card in FAT32 instead. It has a higher "tolerance" against this sort of failure.

[st3v3]

You can try downloading PC Inspector File Recovery, and running it on the card. It's freeware, and should work well given your card is formatted with an older filesystem.

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

You'll likely have to reformat your card, but at least you'll get your files back. If you do have to reformat, and your device supports FAT32, please format your card in FAT32 instead. It has a higher "tolerance" against this sort of failure.

mmmk with a broken partition you wont have alot of luck recovering file clusters, at the very least you will recover things that look like file.001, file.002, etc as most recovery programs will recover pure clusters regardless on data.

and yes Fat 32 is good but you will still get partition faults if you load too many files onto the card.