[Q] Can't mount /sdcard

[PlaidStallion]

I woke up this morning and my phone was frozen. I did a battery pull and whne it came back up my backround was a bit different but all my widgets were there. I tried to go into the gallery to put the background back. It wold me that the SD card could not be mounted. I did a few more reboots and still nothing.

At that point I went into clockworkmod and tried to do a restore but it too is telling me that the sd card can not be mounted.

I am on Cyanogen mod nightly #132 or something like that and CWM 3.0.0.8. Is the internal sd card really hosed or is there some way to get it mounting again? If it is hosed is this phone junk or what?

Thanks for any help.

 

[PlaidStallion]

this may actually be a non-issue. I didn't realize that when the phone says "sdcard" it actually means sdcard unlike tablets where it is referring to the internal memory that is partitioned off. Is this correct?

Are nandroid backups actually stored on a removable sdcard?

 

[carngeX]

this may actually be a non-issue. I didn't realize that when the phone says "sdcard" it actually means sdcard unlike tablets where it is referring to the internal memory that is partitioned off. Is this correct?

Crap, hit thanks instead of quote lol.. Oh well, you get a free thanks ha.

Anyway, Yes that's correct. The SDCard is the actual SDcard, and EMMC is usually the internal memory of the phone. And yes, nandroid backups are stored on the SDcard.

 

[PlaidStallion]

Crap, hit thanks instead of quote lol.. Oh well, you get a free thanks ha.

Anyway, Yes that's correct. The SDCard is the actual SDcard, and EMMC is usually the internal memory of the phone. And yes, nandroid backups are stored on the SDcard.

Ok so it's just the sd card that took a dump most likely then?

and you get an actual thanks

 

[BrettApple]

Ok so it's just the sd card that took a dump most likely then?

and you get an actual thanks

Probably, if you have a micro SD card reader you may try it in there and see if you can get anything off of it. Luckily SD cards aren't that expensive.

 

[carngeX]

Probably, if you have a micro SD card reader you may try it in there and see if you can get anything off of it. Luckily SD cards aren't that expensive.

Like Brett said, try putting the microSD card in your computer if you have a MicroSD-to-SD converter, or an actual microSD card slot.

If you can't read it from the computer, you could try formatting it if it will let you and try and go from there. Otherwise the card will probably be bad.

And cards are cheap nowadays, so a replacement won't be too big of an issue, minus the fact you won't have any of your data.

 

[PlaidStallion]

Yeah just sucks mostly that I lost the data. I will try reading it with an actual card reader when I get home. I tried several times to format within cyanogen and it comes back after awhile saying the card is damaged.