Salvaging a 4GB MiniSD?

[TheDingo]

As I posted in the other thread, I grabbed a 4GB MiniSD and it has not been working properly for me. My question, is there anyway to take a 4GB that is not compatible with the wizard and at least get it partially working? Any drivers to expand support for the cards?

[mfrazzz]

Not sure what you tried, and I don't know if this is a permenant fix, but the 4GB card I received quit working (my 8125 wouldn't even recognize it anymore after about 12 hours in the phone). I pulled it out, put it in my home pc (with the adapter of course :)) and then reformatted it as FAT32. I loaded all of my apps back onto it (all in the PC, not via activesync or wm5torage like I did before) and then put it back in the 8125. That was 3 days ago and I've had no issues with the card since (crossing my fingers and keeping a backup of what I put on it as I still don't trust it). Also by doing this, the access times for reading and writing to the card seem better for me (before I formatted it when I first got the card, just moving a file to the card took a long time. Seems faster now after my formatting it).

Like I said, I don't know if this is a real or permanent solution, but it seems to have rescued my card. YMMV

[TheDingo]

Is yours still working?

I finally got around to messing with it again this evening and am having no luck. I can format it on my PC (FAT is the only option given, I assume it's FAT32 since it's XP) and copy over a couple MP3s. When I tell WMP to scan the card for music, it hard locks.

[killacam13]

wow i also just took my card and formatted it in FAT32...but it was accessing the info slo so i quick formatted in FAT and now it is a speeding bullet...(i have vista u can format in FAT32 FAT and NTFS) so now my movies are working fast and my songs to...(NBD 7.7)

[mfrazzz]

wow i also just took my card and formatted it in FAT32...but it was accessing the info slo so i quick formatted in FAT and now it is a speeding bullet...(i have vista u can format in FAT32 FAT and NTFS) so now my movies are working fast and my songs to...(NBD 7.7)
Sorry, I lost track of this thread. After about a week of using my 4GB card, it basically died again. I may try the FAT format instead of FAT32 (I run XP and had the option of fat, fat32, and ntfs also for my card)

[TheDingo]

Yeah. The card still worked fine in my PC, so I went ahead and just sold it to someone for his camera and am getting a different one.

[yixiar]

hi mfrazzz, does your 4g card run well now? Is it SDHC card?

Thanks

[cronexy]

i am tempted to buy a 4gb minisd card... do you recommend? or should i stick to the 2 gb minisd? (i want moooore space for movies :D)
edit: forgot to mention - I have a wizard

[yixiar]

i am tempted to buy a 4gb minisd card... do you recommend? or should i stick to the 2 gb minisd? (i want moooore space for movies :D)
edit: forgot to mention - I have a wizard

You'd better to have two 2G cards than one 4G card, for 4G can not work stablely in Wizard. It seems crash at any time.:(

[cronexy]

Thank you for answering :)