Re: OT: erasing an SD card
- From: "G;" <jeremyrh.geo@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 28 Aug 2005 08:54:46 -0700
SteveH wrote:
> G; <jeremyrh.geo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I have been mucking about with the update of Tom Tom Navigator for my
> > Palm T3, with the result that a 1Gb SD card is now apparently fubar'ed.
> > I can reformat it on the Palm, and when I tried to reformat it using
> > disk Utility, even that coughed up an error. I tried erasing it, and
> > also zero-ing it, with no success.
> >
> > So I wonder if anyone knows how to reformat teh thing with extreme
> > prejudice, or have I just made myslef the world's lightest paperweight?
>
> Do you have access to a Windows box? - even Virtual PC will do.
>
> As I've posted here before, both hard drives and memory cards that can't
> be formatted on a Mac will often be recoverable by formatting using a
> Windows box.
Well, I delved in the cellar and found my old Win98 Dell laptop and had
a go. After formatting, ScanDisk claimed to have found and fixed all
kinds of errors, but at the end of the day, it didn't work - there are
folders on the card that simply won't go away!!
Thanks for your suggestion, but it looks like the card is a goner.
G;
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