is my sd card defective?!?!

Bimmerman100 · 08-21-04, 01:11 AM

i bought it from dell so i figured it would be good, but its not, its weird, all i have on it are 3 music videos. 2 of them are 6mb the other 9mb and yet that is taking up 182 mb on my sd card!!! and theres nothing else on it?!?! what gives???

**Frenchy** · 08-21-04, 01:14 AM

I have seen this before and it was fixed by installing Storage Tools form www.downloads.com and format the SD card.

Bimmerman100 · 08-21-04, 01:38 AM

is that what its called? "storage tools" ? because i didnt find it, is it for ppc's or for the card or... any help would be greatly appreciated.

was it this?

http://www.softwinter.com/storagetools.html

wooch · 08-21-04, 02:07 AM

Yes, and you more than likely have a SanDisk card, which can be bad news. Pocket Mechanic can format SD cards as well. Good luck with that card . . .

n5emj · 08-21-04, 02:35 AM

I use storage tools and love it. You can even defrag with it.

DeltaTL6 · 08-21-04, 10:35 AM

You can also use Flash Format. I don't see a point in defraging a flash memory though (because it should access all files inside at the same speed no matter where it is, unlike microdrives and harddrives)

wooch · 08-21-04, 10:40 AM

I agree, you would only need to defrag the SD card. I don't even do that, I just copy the contents of my SD card to my PC card via a card reader, delete everything on the card, and then copy everything back. Faster than defragging, and it does the same thing . . .

Bimmerman100 · 08-21-04, 01:48 PM

wow! thanks a lot! the program storage tools worked great!!!! i checked the card for errors and the thing froze... twice! had to soft reset, so then i figured forget checking for errors, just format the card, and i did and it works awesome!!!! i have a bunch of vidz now!!! thanks a lot!!!

Howard2k · 08-21-04, 01:58 PM

If you can, I would return it to Dell and get a card from another manufacturer.

**Frenchy** · 08-21-04, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by wooch06

I don't even do that, I just copy the contents of my SD card to my PC card via a card reader, delete everything on the card, and then copy everything back.

I do the same but sometime it is just easier to tell users to defrag.

wooch · 08-21-04, 06:09 PM

^^ True, very true!

DanmanX · 08-21-04, 08:42 PM

Storage Tools will fix that in a sec. Simply "scan" and "fix all errors" and "defrag" and you'll be fine.

Now why isn't a great proggie like this included with Windows Mobile 2003?!?!?

wooch · 08-21-04, 08:53 PM

Storage Tools is a very nice app. SKTools has SD card utilities as well.

Bimmerman100 · 08-22-04, 02:01 AM

i tried scanning with storage tools and i hit to fix the errors and it froze, i tried doing it to let me fix the errors and it got stuck saying fix? yes, ok, fix? yes ok fix? yes.... after 20 times i just reset, i formatted the card and now its great... thanks!!!

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