Formatting Mini SD card - Motorola Q

allQ · #1 10-06-2006, 05:19 PM

Hi, I bought myself a 1 GB mini SD card and i put some stuff on it that jus turned out to be jibrish in the storage folder under music, so i delted everything and its saying im still using 200 mb when theres nothing being displayed in the storage folder. How can i format my card or delete these invisible items so i can have all my memory back??? ne way i fixed the problem by getting resco explorer but now its saying cannot format check if your card is unlocked! what should i do?

Thx
AQ

alphadog · #2 10-08-2006, 09:58 AM

Do you have a card reader for the PC? If so format it there. From your problem description, I think you have a bum card. All the systems point to that.

allQ · #3 10-08-2006, 11:33 AM

Well i ended up formatting it using my digital camera but now when i try to put songs on some of them go on but then when it goes about half way down the lsit of songs getting synchronized all the rest get aborted then the songs that got put turn into error files?? how can i get songs on? the error message reads "one of the objects is disconnected from the computer" somthing like that. But everything is connected....

thx

frede · #4 10-08-2006, 03:06 PM

Make sure you're puting all your music in a folder such as "My Music", there a limit on how many files can fit into the "root" directory.

allQ · #5 10-08-2006, 08:00 PM

yea i did that but it still does the same thing??

frede · #6 10-08-2006, 08:45 PM

You could try a program like Don't Panic - Photo Recovery - Digital Photo Recovery Software and Photo Recovery Service it can repair a flash card, I've used it several times to recover images and it saved my a##. Soon they will have a "mobile" version.

allQ · #7 10-08-2006, 11:49 PM

I dont have a card reader so that wont work. Im just wondering if this is a faulty card or am i just doing something wrong.

frede · #8 10-09-2006, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by allQ

I dont have a card reader so that wont work. Im just wondering if this is a faulty card or am i just doing something wrong.

I would try to format it with a reader conected to a PC, if that dosen't work replace it, these things do fail.

allQ · #9 10-09-2006, 05:14 PM

I got a card reader now im jus wondering how do you format it using th ecard reader??

tilley · #10 12-28-2006, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by allQ

I got a card reader now im jus wondering how do you format it using th ecard reader??

- connect your card reader, with memory card installed in the slot, to your pc. In the windows explorer, right-click on your card reader letter (may be D, E, F, J etc...). On the drop-down menu, choose "Format". And follow the instructions to format your memory card. Hope this help.