Read All About it: WP7 SD-card format working.

[OGCF]

I think I have some semi good news I didn't read the whole forum so I don't know if its known but I installed windows 8 dev on my laptop now my PC reads the sd card asking me to format but it wouldn't format it my windows 7 rig wont read it at all hopefully its a program out they we can use on windows 8 to format it I didn't do a search yet working retail seems like I live at my job in the holiday season hopefully this helps

Can you take a screenshot? I'd like to talk about this on our website.

 

[cdw9800]

Can you take a screenshot? I'd like to talk about this on our website.

im sorry im trying to redo it but my laptop isnt reading any sd card i dont know if it was a stoke of luck or what but im going to keep trying i should have thought about doing a screenshot

 

[movielover76]

My experience

I have a samsung focus as a work phone and an htc thunderbolt as a personal phone, I realized that I had a class 4 card in my android phone and a class 10 in my wp7 phone so I wanted to swap them since I have little to no important data on my wp7 phone, just music that I can sync again via zune and the performance of my android phone is more important to me as it's the one I play games on, watch videos etc.

I'm sure that before I upgraded to mango I was able to reformat my samsung focus sd card and I went to try it today and nothing will do it.
I've tried two different computers with different card readers
I tried a linux low dd command, I was able to find the device name and even got dd to report that it had written zero's to the card, but nothing really happened.
I never once got either laptop to recognize the card in any fashion, disk management, device manager etc, even in linux I never saw the card
I just wrote to the same /dev/... address as I saw when I put a working sd card in. I put the card back in my samsung focus and it was like I never took it out, it didn't write anything.

I've tried a number of windows tools and the simple fact is that if windows can't see it no tool will format it.

From what I can tell if your still able to see a small amount of the card 200mb or so, most likely on a hacked HD2 it's possible, but if you use a real windows 7 phone like the samsung focus and upgrade to mango it's just not possible
I'm just going to cut my losses leave the fast card in their and buy a new class 10 card for my android, you can get them for like $60 now.

 

[k00000000]

There appears to be two types of locked SD cards from WP7: one from phones like HD7's internal microSD card which will show two paritions and otherwise normal card; the other is from Samsung Focus's microSD card slot where the special SD security is enabled and the card won't even showup in any PC card reader.

Low level format and other specialty tools on PC or Mac work for 1st type of cards but won't work for cards locked down by Samsung Focus. That requires a driver level support for SD card security which does not exist in any of the card reader today. The only confirmed solution for 2nd type of cards is to use Nokia/Symbian phones to format it

Yes it works!! "use Nokia/Symbian phones to format it"
I was using the 2nd type of card
Thanks much

 

[pauliusval99]

wm6.5 works

OK thanks for testing , but the symbian way is confirmed .

if you can't find a symbian phone maybe I can help ( I have one )

ps there are rumours that wm6.5 can do it to .

YES, WM6.5 can do it.
Once i installed WP7 on my HD2, but when i started to install apps on it, i got the activation code from microsoft live chat... Then it turned off. (hardware?)
And it didn't turn on anymore (fatal hit1). So i tried to reflash the original ROM using my microSD card, but i saw it's "bricked".
Finally,i refashed it with USB, and reformatted the microSD using the "format sd card" tool in settings -> all settings -> system.


i think it was the 2nd type xD (look to the above thread)

 

[Digitalxpert]

Hi

I am new to all this applications etc...
Can somebody help me as my SD card is not getting read by my HTC HD2 device?
How can I make it readable to my device? I formatted it several times but no fruit

 

[kms108]

Hi

I am new to all this applications etc...
Can somebody help me as my SD card is not getting read by my HTC HD2 device?
How can I make it readable to my device? I formatted it several times but no fruit

when you say format, did you do it through the hard reset. in the phone.

 

[simpleton681]

YES, WM6.5 can do it.
Once i installed WP7 on my HD2, but when i started to install apps on it, i got the activation code from microsoft live chat... Then it turned off. (hardware?)
And it didn't turn on anymore (fatal hit1). So i tried to reflash the original ROM using my microSD card, but i saw it's "bricked".
Finally,i refashed it with USB, and reformatted the microSD using the "format sd card" tool in settings -> all settings -> system.


i think it was the 2nd type xD (look to the above thread)

I'm going to bite the bullet and buy a new card, but I wanted to post here that I also tried this method, low level format in Linux, Windows Disk Manager, the unlock Cab (I can't get the card recognized in WP7, so I can't install the Cab to unlock the card....fun), and about 10 random devices I could find around my house (I don't have access to an N9 device, unfortunately), but I was never able to successfully format my card. I'm using the 16GB SanDisk that came with the phone, so it's probably crap anyway.

 

[MatheusSBR]

You solved my problem, Thanks man! It's Works!

 

[Fullmetal99012]

format wp7 card

I don't mean to necropost this, but I have a 16 gb card from an HD7. I put it in my windows 8 slate, and it gets read, but no utility will format it.

I attached two photos showing the SD card in drive management, the other showing the result of partition creation.

 

[mkumaresa]

32 gb samsung card revived by nokia express music

nokia express music revived my transcend 32gb, simbian is simply great!!!!!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/good.gif

 

[JetAttendant]

I have a 32 gig sandisk pulled from a samsung focus.
I've been trying various devices and most don't see it. I have a Nokia 2730 that sees it but requires a password. There's no way to bypass it.
For the time being I'm trying to track down anyone in my area that has a symbian phone.

Something interesting I noticed though is that my Surface RT (8.1) recognizes the card. It even shows up in disk management as "29.72 GB - Unallocated"
However any attempt to format the card is unsuccessful. It's very frustrating.