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[General Accessories] D200P13:
4 posts about this and i think i found a way to fix this with windows. it did this to me and worked so thought id share so people dont format the sd card and lose all data.

i put the sd card from my sensation 4g into my computers card reader. in windows 7 i went to start > rightclick "computer" and click manage. i then clicked on "Disk Management" to see what type of condition the sd card was in. it said it was a RAW disk. i started to think and then decided to try a chkdsk to see if it fixes it. to do that i just clicked START > RUN (or START > type in RUN and click the run shortcut) and type in CMD in the box then click ok. now in the command prompt type in CHKDSK X: /R then press the enter key (NOTE: X represents the drive letter). wait for it to do its thing and it should fix this problem.

i am not sure if it will fix it for all cases but atleast it worked for me.
[General Accessories] KrisHilbun:
I had this problem only after installing Swift Key X.

Uninstalled Swift Key X , Unchecked fast boot in power options

Powered down phone removed battery for 20 seconds put battery back in

turn on was fixed

If happens again i will try ur method in an attempt to confirm though :P
[General Accessories] D200P13:
yea another thing that has happened was i had to restart the phone a few times and it worked but the first post was a common issue and fixed it when other methods didnt work
[General Accessories] Mikesin:
Comes up with the SD card is RAW so it can't be done or something :/..

Really don't want to lose the data :/
[General Accessories] gerimis:
Hey, it works for me.
[General Accessories] Dr.Taly:
and for me..
[General Accessories] ri123:
sd card

does not work?

Even if i format it, the disk keeps going to RAW format.
[General Accessories] ri123:
If you have a rooted phone and your sd is readable by your computer there is no need to format it. Just go to recovery and mount/sdcard.

This problem seems to be a flaw although.
[General Accessories] ri123:
I do not know why there is no proper feature which causes this problem:confused:
[General Accessories] ri123:
I think the problem is caused by root access to the sd card or kernel compatibility.
[General Accessories] ri123:
No its actually caused by recovery. Install stock recovery and the sdcard blank or unsupported filesystem error might not appear.:thumbup::beer:
[General Accessories] ri123:
Stock recovery might be the fix, clockworkmod compatibility might be the problem.
[General Accessories] dspPunk:
This dint work for me. :(

Nor did the kernel version did.. I am using siyah kernel and i updated it to the latest for SGS2 but it dint work out for me...

Now plannin to do the post #1 method. I think this is the last option for me.

:(:(:(:(

---------- Post added at 12:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:14 PM ----------

can you please provide me SGS2 stock recovery IMG link?

I am using NEAT rom which is said to be the stock samsung ROM then y is this problem? :(
[General Accessories] ri123:
Do you have a partitioned sdcard? The CHKDSK command should detect this.

---------- Post added at 03:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:32 PM ----------

If you can't mount the sdcard using recovery, such as clockworkmod etc, I don't know whether changing to stock recovery will help.
[General Accessories] dspPunk:
Then whats the possible solution.. I observed one thing which is i flashed stock rom from sammobile and the sdcard used to work sometimes and sometimes it dint.. So i think its nit the sdcard which is corrupted or dead.. Is it coz of rom?
[General Accessories] godfate:
This problem is not caused by CWM or any modded recovery, I know because this is happening to me on my LG Optimus L9 and I have the stock recovery on my phone. Although it is rooted, but that shouldn't be the cause. It's probably a faulty SD card, I have a 32 gb SDHC and my phone seems to hate it, half the time it tells me the card is blank or unsupported filesystem and wants to format it, the other half of the time it sits for an hour or two just scanning the darn thing. Either it actually is a faulty card, or my phone isn't good at reading large SD cards. So much for 'smart phone'...
[General Accessories] hjcool576:
Just logged in to say Thanks

ur idea worked :D

i was gonna lose alot of data if i had to format the damn card
[General Accessories] anto2k:
sd card formating

if still not working, trying format sdcard using software from sdcard.org

....
[General Accessories] ri123:
Definitely the phone. My computer always manages to read the sd card, so of course, whatever happened to my phone is causing the problem. For me, the problem started immediately when I flashed a Rom after root. I didn't wipe my phone before, is that a fix???
[General Accessories] ri123:
It likely to be something in the /system directory.
[General Accessories] ri123:
Oh yes, I have found the solution.

When you unmount the sd card, you get a notification. Press CANCEL and then press UNMOUNT SD CARD. I think this solves the problem...
[General Accessories] PortalPerson:
OP's method works for Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0

I was just about to write up about how none of this worked for my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 w/ a 32gb Sandisk micro sd card, but hey presto! The CHKDSK method worked. So thanks OP :)
[General Accessories] fvgbh:
i've tried all the methods suggested, still no luck!

on the cwm recovery method, it just said "sd mount unsuccessful"

i'm on jellybam 6.7.0 samsung GT-I9300, any other ideas?
[General Accessories] amputasi:
thanks dude..:good: it works for me..

at first i was worry because i just bought 8gb sd card.. and have no idea why
[General Accessories] mamedz:
Dear Mate,

What if in the CMD thats unsuccessful ? The answer is :

C:\>chkdsk E: /r

The type of the file system is RAW.

CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.

Please for your solution m8

Regards,

mmdz
[General Accessories] gius321:
wow i recover my files

Het guys this is temporary problem I'd the problem several times but it recovered... Try to put SD in other Symbian phones... There it opens.... maybe Some is really disagreed but most must be temporary...
[General Accessories] Jerika:
Thanks but...

When i plugged it in my pc with the reader, it can't recognize my sd card. Even if i go to disk management, it can't still read/recognize the sd card. What should I do? :(
[General Accessories] arive:
I Hope this it will help you to solve that problem

Hi!

I lived the same story

Partition Wizard Home Edition 8.0 Free

mega.co.nz/#!fQtgADZS!LRuCGV_5CpCaQoVRj3tG3yk4vzIlAECBngOJN_sJZig
[General Accessories] Jerika:
Thanks! It did read my card, but...

Partition Wizard reads it :good:, but it can't do anything. I can't format it with it.

Next, i tried SD Formatter. As it was reading my sd card, it says (and shows) that it is an MMC.

And now i'm stuck on what to do

How was that even possible that my micro SD card is read as MMC?

BTW, thanks for the help my man :)
[General Accessories] jjprophet:
WOW! thanks so much for this..Almost gave up and reformatted my card but decided to google a little more and came across this post and it worked!
[General Accessories] testwater2:
yes, i also facing this problem.Window computer management format "the format did not complete successfully "

anybody able to help ??:(
[General Accessories] SaNXeVC:
May be ther is som app to check card on phone? Just like an chkdsk on windows.
[General Accessories] Jerika:
I'm sure i'm the only one who have this situation where...

My 16GB microSDHC inserted in my PC via card reader is detected as MMC

Please do tell that my card isn't hopeless. :(
[General Accessories] WhyIsThisKeepHappening:
Thanks, worked for me! Finally a solution :D
[General Accessories] ptmuldoon:
I was having this same issue, and was finally able to rescue my SDCard. As most people will say, use at your risk however this did work for me.

1. Download testdisk: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

2. Repair the MBR on the SDCard. Follow these steps: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

After Steps 1 and 2. I put the SD card back in my Phone and was told the SDCard was bad (not unformatted).. And Windows still thought it was 'Raw'. However, now I was able to run ChkDsk via a Windows command prompt which fixed the file system. And then when placing back in the phone everything was there.
[General Accessories] alexander2020:
I am having the same issue with a card on my Sensation, could it be the wire that I am using? When I try to open the folder to see the contents of card, shows nothing (BLANK).

Tried your steps, did not work :(

Has anyone face any issues with wire, could it be the cause?
[General Accessories] Cecilia560:
RAW SD card problem is not so difficult to cope with. The solution could be different based on different situations. When there is still something important stored on this RAW card, one is supposed to firstly rescue the inner stored data with the help of some data recovery tools, like Recuva, Recuva, , iCare Data Recovery, 4Card Recovery and PhotoRec, etc, and then, format this card to fix its RAW file system problem.

When there is nothing important, you can directly format this drive.

Note: Always back up everything important well.
[General Accessories] Ali-aliimran3:
The solution is here!

99.23%" working solution.You must have rooted phone to fix sd card.Just insert card in any rooted phone.Follow these steps:

1.Download "Aparted" on your rooted phone.You may get it from play store name "aparted sd card partition"

2.Open and grant it superuser access

3.Wait for it to load.When the main screen appears, touch on tools option.Select formate option and select apply.choose formate to fat 32

and formate .now go back and you will see that sd card will be checked and mounted now.

3.You can check sd card in my files.

Note"""""""YOUR SD CARD DATA WILL BE LOST AS IT FORMATES BUT THERE IS NO OTHER CHANCE TO GET IT BACK"""""""

It may be help full.
[General Accessories] sk8terjs1:
any idea for a fix computer doesnt even recognize when i put my sd card tried 2 different laptops still nothing no damage to the sd card
[General Accessories] Kamilius:
Same problem with blank but: microSD card is working on all devices except my phone (LG L90, card -> Kingston class10 16GB), has FAT32 filesystem (tried RAW and NTFS, didn't helped). Also other available microSD cards are working well on it (8gb class 4 and 4gb class 2, both Kingston).

None of above suggestions didn't worked for me.
[General Accessories] nakula1:
thanks mate! it fixed my sd card!

btw my sd isn't RAW, it's FAT32. but I have tried your chkdsk way and succeed!
[General Accessories] zrsqhc:
blank sd card or has unsupported filesystem

Hi, I am new here. But I have been reading threads and I in fact learned how to root my two phones through here.

Just sharing.

Anyway, I bought an MP3 player yesterday an inserted my 4GB SanDisk microsd card in it. Worked fine at first, but after several power offs of the player, it won't play anymore. So I inserted the said sd card back to my phone and to my surprise, it can't be mounted anymore. I keep getting an error saying, "blank sd card or has unsupported filesystem". Tapped that message and a window popped up saying I can format the sd card. I tried but did nothing. Inserted it in a different phone but was getting the same error. Tried putting it in my netbook but both Windows 7 and Linux Mint Katya won't recognize it. What should I do? Is it permanently ruined??? -_____-

I'm using Motorola MB860 and Samsung GT-S5670

Thanks.
[General Accessories] Matt98765:
I can't believe it - this actually worked! I guess it makes about as much sense as the phone not being able to read the card in the first place. I've got a 64 GB card, and my SGS2 is only supposed to support up to 32, but it's generally worked without a problem as long as it's formatted as FAT32. Every once in a while I get the blank card notification, but if I just reboot once or twice it always works again. I just went back to stock ROM, and I'm just getting it set up and trying to get rid of bloatware, it's reading the card fine, then I do a system restore and suddenly it won't read the card, and no matter how many times I reboot, it still won't read it. I boot into TWRP, and it can read the card fine, just for the hell of it I tried fixing file permissions, and I try mounting the drives and Windows can also read them fine; each time I boot back to the ROM and it still won't read the card. So after finding this thread, I finally dig out my SD adapter, stick the card in the computer, run checkdisk, and checkdisk says no errors found, the drive is fine - so supposedly checkdisk did not actually do anything other than read the card, but this time when I put it back into the phone, like magic it works again! WTF?! Well, thanks, OP!
[General Accessories] clickmaster:
sorry but this didn't worked for me :crying:
[General Accessories] nigo242:
Don't know if this will help anyone, but this is what worked for me. Was getting the error on the my LG G3; and did all the methods I read here, but nothing worked. Even formatted the card and lost everything. Still wouldn't work on my LG G3. I took the card and placed it into my Galaxy Tab 2 - and it was able to work there. I took a picture on the tab, and then put the SD Card back into my LG G3, and VIOLA! working again.

Again - don't know if this will help anyone, but this worked for me. GOod lUck.
[General Accessories] nikhilkurse:
sd card blank

Friends iam using samsung galaxy grand 2. iam having the problem blank sd card from 15 days. it is giving format sd card. If i format also the phone is giving the same answer . i have many changed many sd cards but is is giving the same answer . please if any one knoes the answer. please reply me . iam in problem .
[General Accessories] androidvillage:
Why dont you create a partition then?(FAT32)

Use Diskmgmt.msc to create a Partition on that SD card,It might help you.
[General Accessories] man droid:
Help needed

Hi, thank you for posting this solution. I have downloaded TestDisk software but im unable to understand second stem i.e. Repair MBR on SD card. Can you please elaborate this step. I opened the link provided by you but i could not get the things clear. Plese help me.:)
[General Accessories] gianmaxfactor:
Format SD from Android

This is what a famous producer suggests about solving the " SD CARD EMPTY OR DAMAGED" problem. It suppose you can read the SD from a computer:

FROM WINDOWS (SD CARD READER)

- BACKUP SD FILES IN A SAFE PLACE

- QUICK FORMAT SD (FAT32)

FROM PHONE

FORMAT SD

FROM WINDOWS (SD CARD READER)

COPY FILES FROM PREVIOUS BACKUP TO SD

The trick should be formatting the SD from Android.
[General Accessories] TheoKondak:
I got the same problem today. Some SanDisk Ultra 32gb Class 10 Card i had on my Moto G 4g just stoped working.

Some time ago, my Moto G showed some "Sd Card Removed" error randomly, but it was automounting the card again on its own so i didn't really paid much attention.Today though, the problem persisted, so i decided to insert my SD on my PC..The PC card reader seems to interact with the card, since the "Access" led is turning on, but not as it does usually.The led will stay turned on the whole time,while normaly it blinks. The PC is unable to read or even see the card.I tried from windows Disk Management as well as Hard Disk Sentinel but none recognises the card.Also, i tried it on my Asus TF300T where i got "Blank SD Card - The SD Card is Blank or has unsupported file system".I cannot use "Erase SD Card" function.My Moto G 4g wont even bother to interact with the card anymore.

So practicaly only my TF300T is able to do the slightest interaction with the card, simply by popoing out this error message.The other devices i got are unable to read it at all.

I believe that the card is dead, but still i feel like investigating whats going on here.
[General Accessories] drgenetix:
Solved IT :)

Guys I had the same problem, 4gb micro sd card was detected by my pc but the phone did not even detect it, although while removing, it said "sd card removed" I did chkdsk to no avail. Then I inserted the card installed an app Aparted free from play store

open aparted

go to create

click on green colored button +

part 1 ticked on "Format"

Dragged the slider to full length

Apply changes

Remove sd card

Insert it again

And Voila card detected :D

Lg L9 P769 F***ing stock rom unblockable bootloader :@
[General Accessories] hx4700 user:
For me the problem - Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 with Samsung EVO 64GB micro SD card - occured after Dolphin browser froze and I got fed up waiting and rebooted the tablet. Thereafter my SD card was declared damaged. I think it is sensitive to being unmounted first. Sadly I didn't find this thread early enough and I had formatted the disk. Now I also realise that Samsung's do NOT format, they merely delete everything. Naughty misnomer. Currently I am restoring the SD card contents from a backup made using Goodsync.

From looking around, it seems that A LOT of users have problems with external SD cards, yet there is no suggestion of thta on the Samsung site. Having an external SD card was the reason I chose the Tab S after my Nexus 7 2013 broke. Now I am regretting it.
[General Accessories] yoshinowasomy:
You may download a sd card data recovery software to scan the sd card and recover lost files from sd card, see this step by step tutorial: How to recover data from sd card

hope this helps.
[General Accessories] jb.NY:
The same problem here, yesterday I went to check the clock, so I pulled my phone out of my pocket and suddenly faced the black SD card error, now my phone (S4) and pc don't recognize my 16 GB micro SD card(recognize it as RAW). non of the solutions above worked for me and now I am about to reformat my memory card :(

I really don't want to lose my files, but I tried every way offered here, and there no option left :(
[General Accessories] sachin26:
SD card raw system/ corrupt fix

I was on a trip to Brussels and I was clicking photos with my phone, and suddenly i got error saying that "Memory card removed unexpectedly" as I was in a hurry I did not check it and continue clicking photos. When I came back home i got to know that my phone is not showing my sd card and all my photos are gone from gallery, only photos which I clicked after I got the error were in phone memory. I turned off and started the phone, removed SD card and put it back again but nothing was working. My phone was not showing SD card at all. I connected my micro sd card to computer but in my computer i could only see drive icon with no information about total space and remaining space. After double clicking on drive i was getting messenger "The drive is not formatted, do you want to format it ?". I tried defragmentation, disk error checking but nothing was working. My micro sd card was having all the photos right from the beginning also I had not taken backup of it. I spent almost a month researching about how to recover data from damaged/corrupted micro sd card but nothing was working. My filesystem has been changed to raw so I tried various softwares to recover data from raw drive but it was all in vain.luckily one day while browsing i came across one person who recovers data from flash drives and sd cards using specialized technique. He works in Germany with firm name as "recoverfab" i went through his website and saw his methods to recover the data which was not at all software related but his emphasise was on recovery through hardware unlike most of the other firms in market. There is also video on YouTube about his work. So i sent him my sd card by post and after receiving the sd card i immediately got confirmation email and he told me my job will complete in approximately three days. I was waiting eagerly and the next day i got email saying 100% of my data has been recovered. I was sooooo happy. I would happily suggest everyone who is facing similar kind of issue to try contacting recoverfab.
[General Accessories] 824dozer:
Perfect Solution !!

OKAY JJ Prophet This worked perfectly for me too. I was at my end and ready to toss in the towel. But as I read your [ how to ] post I thought just perhaps. The "RAW" file you mentioned caught my eye has that was what WINDOWS was telling me my SD Card file was. I just wasn't convinced that my existing files could no longer be extracted or that my card was broke but I had no idea how fix it. Other previous command codes failed but yours worked! Once entered WINDOWS said that "corruption was found while examining the boot region." It proceeded to verify files and folders. For me it took about 15 minutes. Then bam! The Command prompt window started spewing out all kinds of data and part of it stated that WINDOWS corrected the errors. Took the card from my PC and placed it back in my Galaxy Note 2 phone and hasn't given me another problem. Major kudos to you sir!!! Thank you for finding the solution!!!!!!!

Here's the solution from JJ Prophet:

Quote:

Originally Posted by D200P13

4 posts about this and i think i found a way to fix this with windows. it did this to me and worked so thought id share so people dont format the sd card and lose all data.

i put the sd card from my sensation 4g into my computers card reader. in windows 7 i went to start > rightclick "computer" and click manage. i then clicked on "Disk Management" to see what type of condition the sd card was in. it said it was a RAW disk. i started to think and then decided to try a chkdsk to see if it fixes it. to do that i just clicked START > RUN (or START > type in RUN and click the run shortcut) and type in CMD in the box then click ok. now in the command prompt type in CHKDSK X: /R then press the enter key (NOTE: X represents the drive letter). wait for it to do its thing and it should fix this problem.

i am not sure if it will fix it for all cases but atleast it worked for me
[General Accessories] beamer1979:
My Moto G 4G had same problem with a 64GB Kingston SDXC Class 10 (which *NO* other device had any issues with) after both letting the phone itself format the card (got constant cycle of ) and letting Windows 7 desktop format the card to exfat.

Currently working (36 hours and counting with North of 32GB of data stored on the card) method, was to format to fat32 using this tool (Windows 7 formatter would only allow either exfat or NTFS) - (removed) *AND* only remove/insert the card with the phone powered off. I went with a "Quick Format" and left the other settings at default.

I suspected the phone required the power off as reading between the lines of the release notes and commentary from Motorola for the latest update, implied to me they know there is still a problem with "hot swapping" (still unmounting first, so not *true* hot swapping) and have not been able to fix it.

You also can't connect the phone by usb cable to any device which attempts to accesse the SD card *when powering it up*. Which limits charging options for me a little, as I would previously (with other lower capacity SD card in) charge through my laptop - I now have to make sure I have access to a dedicated phone charger, rather than just use any old USB port.

Connecting by usb cable after it has powered up (and obtained proper access to the SD card), it not, as expected, a problem.

I have yet to receive the "SD card blank or has unsupported filesystem" again taking these approaches.

(As I believe this to be purely a software bug - here's my current levels - (removed))
[General Accessories] beamer1979:
Annoying that I can't post links to the useful stuff - email me if you want them - benny.walsh@gmail.com
[General Accessories] D200P13:
i didnt realize how useful this thread was. i rarely check my replies since im nobody on here but i appreciate all the good feedback! i will try to read this as i setup a new rom on my phone and help others. please hit that THANKS button in the first post!

please note: just because your SDCARD has no fix from suggestion in this post, that doesnt mean you cant recover data! you will have to use data recovery software but at least its a way to get your data back. thats a last resort if you must format.