Microdriv CORRUPTED!

bilalperwaiz · 19th July 2007, 06:24 AM

Microdriv CORRUPTED!

hey all..nywayz i just wanted to bring to all ur attention that while on my flight from dubai to usa...my microdrive crashed....suddenly while using and there was just noo trace...it just wouldnt show up on file explorer or any application...i HARD-RESETED MY DEVICE and then even it didnt show up...i even formatted it b4 but no chance..THEN...i did the RECOVER HARD DRIVE option and then it showed up...BUT MY HOLE HOLIDAYZ WERE SPOILED SINCE I HAD 4 GB'S WORTH OF STUFF LIKE MUSIC MOVIES MUSIK VIDEOS...ETC ETC...anyone noo Y this happened!!!

hybride · 19th July 2007, 08:00 AM

My Ameo got a bit moist and now my microdrive is gone!!
WM5storage won't bring it back..

Is there any way to get this thing back to work?

Olipro · 19th July 2007, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by bilalperwaiz

hey all..nywayz i just wanted to bring to all ur attention that while on my flight from dubai to usa...my microdrive crashed....suddenly while using and there was just noo trace...it just wouldnt show up on file explorer or any application...i HARD-RESETED MY DEVICE and then even it didnt show up...i even formatted it b4 but no chance..THEN...i did the RECOVER HARD DRIVE option and then it showed up...BUT MY HOLE HOLIDAYZ WERE SPOILED SINCE I HAD 4 GB'S WORTH OF STUFF LIKE MUSIC MOVIES MUSIK VIDEOS...ETC ETC...anyone noo Y this happened!!!

MicroDrives are sensitive to presuure; when you were rising or descending, the change in pressure could have caused the damage.

recommendation: turn off the device for take-off and landing.

LTxda · 19th July 2007, 02:24 PM

My buddy had a similar problem with his. His MicroDrive stopped working. WMStorage didn't fix the issue either. He was running the original ROM that came with the device and some software, nothing more. The only thing that brought back the drive was to do a hard reset, then flash the factory ROM back onto the device. I've had issues with the drive myself so run everything off of my SD Card and only use the MicroDrive for temporary storage or backups of my SD Card. This sucks that we can't trust the drive. Just makes me nervous using it.

mojo2000 · 19th July 2007, 02:30 PM

agreed! I'd rather prefer 4gig flash memory to a 8gig unsafe microdrive.
but it's all about marketing issues

bilalperwaiz · 19th July 2007, 04:44 PM

very true..all my data was lost...i guess it ISS becuz of the rise in pressure and all that,..but my microdrive izz up and working again..!

eaglesteve · 19th July 2007, 09:21 PM

My microdrive had corrupted twice before, and I had thought that using the miniSD would completely solve the problem. I was wrong.

Yesterday, my genuine Toshiba miniSDHC lost everything on it. I could not recover it with Pocket Mechanics Professional. Soft reset does not help, as it did previously. I don't know if this was caused my the repeated removal and insertion if card which performed in attempting to fix my SIP selection problem.

The lessen for me is, do a regular backup to PC and do not take out and put in the card without switching off the device.

I still have not reinstalled my applications and data yet because today is the day to upgrade my Dopod to WM6. I'm really looking forward to the upgrade. I expect some of my applications to be dumped for compatibility reason, not in the end I'd have a transformed and better computer.

YOSEFE · 3rd August 2007, 11:07 PM

Htc Advantage Microdrive Failure

I want to add my voice to the concerns raised regarding the much sung about MicroDrive with 8GB.

I have lost all the data I installed and stored on the MicroDrive. I had photos, documents - some of them work related and do not have them anywhere at all.

Does anyone have any idea how I can undelete or recover these?

By the way, I did not delete them, they were simply gone!

Please help.

LTxda · 4th August 2007, 12:53 AM

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Originally Posted by YOSEFE

I want to add my voice to the concerns raised regarding the much sung about MicroDrive with 8GB.

I have lost all the data I installed and stored on the MicroDrive. I had photos, documents - some of them work related and do not have them anywhere at all.

Does anyone have any idea how I can undelete or recover these?

By the way, I did not delete them, they were simply gone!

Please help.

Try to use WMStorage which will allow the drive/s to be recognized under Windows as an external storage drive. Then get yourself a copy of Ontrack Easy Recovery and use that to recover the lost files. I've never had to recover files from my MD or SD yet on my phone but my cousin had a camera that did something like this....all pictures just dissappeared and I used the program and got back stuff he forgot about that had been looooong gone. Works well. Hope this helps :)