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[Touch HD General] vita56:
I was on Dutty 2.1, Dutty 2.6, Dutty 2.9. I flashed Duttys 3.3 xtreme on Saturday afternoon and in the evening my SD card was corrupted.

I never had problems with that card before. I have no success til this time. The card is dead in every computer (2) a and card reader (2) which I have. Some readers "show" the content but I am not able access it or format card.
[Touch HD General] tarrytownfads:
SD card disappears

I have same problem here. I was on Dutty 2.1, flashed Duttys 3.3 xtreme on Sunday afternoon and by Monday afternoon my SD card was corrupted. I never had problems with that card before. I reverted back to 2.1 and everything was working fine. I decided to back up the Card to my PC and ran into some problems - couple files and folders (non-essential) were corrupted. I managed to do the back up, reformat the card and copy everything back. It has been almost 24 hours and everything is working fine (I am still on 2.1).

I'd love to use 3.3, but for now I think I'll wait until this issue is resolved...
[Touch HD General] Dizzle:
It happened again..

I reported back in 20/04/09 that my card disappeared, well the other night it happened again whilst i was on Dutty's 3.2. I tried various things such as upgrading to Dutty 3.3 etc. Nothing worked. I flashed a 1.14 rom and my card was visible again. I still kept the HSPL 1.56 so although the colours were messed up, I could access my card. I formatted it to Fat32, 64. I'm now on Dutty's 3.3 and my card is still visible.

I mostly use Dutty's roms which might explain why it's only happened with his Roms....
[Touch HD General] Matthes42:
might that be the solution?

it seems that in all cases the sd-card gets the problems within 24 hours afters installation of the new rom. so it might be, that the sd-card get corrupted while flashing the new rom.

while trying to access the corrupted filesystem of the sd-card it vanishes for the blackstone. i stayed at duttys v3.3 and after formatting the sd-card i´ve got no problems at all. today is the third day i´m using this configuration.

the solution could be to remove the sd-card while flashing via RUUWrapper.
[Touch HD General] Friend of Bill W.:
Done all that as well :(

Anyho, I have now called the shop where I bought the device and asked them to send me a SANDISK card ( they "threw" a APACER card in since the card was offered as a bundle) as I explained to them that the APACER is not the original SD card but the formerly TRANSENT is ;)

Will see if this changes anything...
[Touch HD General] Friend of Bill W.:
And its not Duttys ROM

cross fingers , I have a new SD card and all is working flawless. So if anyone has a question re SD microcard dissapearing after trying all the other tips already posted on here..ask me :cool:

I've earned 2 cookies in trying everything possible including sending the device in to get the SD reader module renewed.

My conclusion (in my case) is:

The SD Card got corrupted at some stage ways earlier

Even trying to format it did not fix the problem

Inserting a brand new SD Micro Card AFTER flashing has solved it
[Touch HD General] Matthes42:
It´s my opinion as well, because i´m still using duttys v3.3 after formatting my sd-card and it´s working without any problems. (formatting the sd-card at my pc solved it). yes, it might get corrupted in a very early stage of using. I suppose it is the flashing procedure.

so again: my solution would be to remove the sd-card while flashing.
[Touch HD General] Friend of Bill W.:
I second that

However, some might get confused with Dutty's instructions as it says
[Touch HD General] stuart.tavener:
SD Card corrupt.

ive just had the same issue - but got it working again.

one i found out it wasnt working on the HD, i tried the SD card in a USB adapter and i couldnt even backup the files.

So i just ran a error check on the driver from with-in windows.

it analyzed the crd and report some errors needed fixing, so i did it and its working fine now.

so im quickly backing up the data.
[Touch HD General] Friend of Bill W.:
Thanks for sharing this solution with us. Would you be able to explain it more in detail what/how exactly you did in order to find/fix that problem as some of us might not know how to because they are noobs ;)

do an error check (step-by-step/program used)

analyze a "crd" (what is it)

where you can gind the report

what you fixed specificaly

Awesome, thanks :)
[Touch HD General] Tytanium:
16gb- no 8gb - yes

i think it maybe that ppl have flashed the rom or upgraded the spl with the SD card still inside the phone.

i have to sandisk micro sdhc in 8gb and 16gb.

i flashed rom ad hspl 1.56 with 16gb sd in the phone as ive never had a problem with it.

16gb card now dissappears

8gb card works fine immediately

BEFORE YOU BUY A NEW microSD CARD

get a card reader and an adapter, back up the micro sd card to your pc

re-format it and try again.

im in the proccess now and will report back IF succesfull - fingers crossed

Ty
[Touch HD General] Tytanium:
re: htc lova and error checking

id been getting the same message when i connect the phone to the pc in disk drive mode, so i scaned and repaired the errors...then i started getting the vanishing card after that...so i dont think it will work for everyone

just asking, what operating system do you have?

im using windows 7 ultimate - vista didnt like my phone much

Ty
[Touch HD General] Friend of Bill W.:
I have & found XP most reliable for my needs. I never had (and will have) Vista on my machine. Windows 7..I'll wait and see until all teething problems are solved (another1-2 years? ;))

Cheers
[Touch HD General] Tytanium:
strange...i used my 8gb for the day, put my 16gb back in when i got home and its been working fine since.

hopefully this will last :)
[Touch HD General] sschrupp:
I reverted to a stock 1.14 ROM and can use the SD card again just fine. But I tried to hook the card up to two of my computers and they can not read the card. They get an I/O error or something. So there's no way for me to format the card! Both machines are running updated versions of Vista 64-bit.

I also tried to hook the Blackstone up to my Windows XP work laptop using "Disk mode" and it was unable to access the card that way as well. My work laptop doesn't have a card reader so I can't try directly accessing the card that way.

Is there any way to format the SD card while it's in the Touch HD?
[Touch HD General] foulke:
To format a card inside the phone, if you can still see it, search for storage tools (softwinter)

In my case, I repeat, I couldn't access the card with the HD (so storage tool was useless) and even with an adaptater, it couldn't be read with a PC.

I didn't try to revert to stock ROM.
[Touch HD General] sschrupp:
Ok I tried Storage Tools as well as other similar utilities. They would all act as if they were working, but when they would finish their formatting sequence the card was not actually formatted.

I also noticed that I could explore the storage card through Active Sync on the PC and I could delete files, but if I refreshed the view the files would still be there. Likewise, deleting from the file explorer on the HD would result in no actual delete happening.

I purchased a card reader, plugged it into my PC and my PC can not access the card. I then tried running chkdsk and format DOS commands on the flash drive. The commands would take forever to start up and then would start to go through their normal process then stop at like 95% telling me there are bad sectors or something. Chkdsk couldn't repair the card. Format /u had no luck either.

It's very wierd, because the HD is able to access things on the card like pictures and music. You'd think the PC could do something with the card still.

Guess I'll stick with pre 1.56 ROMs because I definitely don't want to be going through memory cards like that. Already paid an arm and a leg for the phone.. lol.
[Touch HD General] Matthes42:
To my mind you can keep your rom as long as you remove it while flashing a new rom. i still have 1.56 roms and my sd-card works very well after that one issue.
[Touch HD General] Elim:
Again... SD card lost after some seconds...

Okay, I have the same problem again.

I think it has to do with the ActivSync tool under Vista because in both cases I use this to put files to the SD card. After my last problem with it, I use only the USB-Driver mode to put files on the SD card but yesterday I usa again the ActivSync mode and it happends!

So, to all who have this problem:

- what have you done before?

- connect you to Vista?

All others:

- use you only XP?

EDIT: I have used Duttys 3.1 ROM
[Touch HD General] Friend of Bill W.:
Try this one, it worded for me SD Formatter

However, I got a new SD Card and everything works like a charm now. I suspect that once you flashed your ROM (from SPL1.14 to 1.54/1.56) leaving the SD card inside it will corrupt the card and whatever you are going to try the card is f#%!ed (even though it appears occasionally again)

Hope it will work for you
[Touch HD General] Elim:
Maybe in some cases but:

a) some have the problem and put there SD card out (I also) when they flash

b) the problem appear after many days/weeks (I flash for 13 days)

Therefore I suspect that it has to do with Vista...
[Touch HD General] gavb:
No - I have XP and I got this same problem with a 16GB card. Am in process of reformatting and trying again.
[Touch HD General] Elim:
So, we don't now what the reason is...

We have the problem with the new 1.56 ROMS (only cooked ones!) or with older ons, with Vista or with XP, with 8GB or 16GB cards, ... and so on.

Only the stock ROMS are save now!

EDIT: I didn't check it in detail, but I only see this problem with Duttys ROMs. I am right?

PS. I love Duttys ROMs and will not talk badly about him or his work, but it is importend to find the reason for this big issue.

EDIT 2: I flash MaryOne V2 WM6.5 and the SD card didn't disappear...!

EDIT 3: Okay, now the SD card is also on MaryOne ROM disappeared, but I didn't format etc. the SD card until now. I will reformat the card and use MaryOne afterwards and we will see, if the card again disappear... hopefully not :-(
[Touch HD General] gavb:
I went from 1.19 to 1.56 stock ROM then to Miri's v10 (WM6.5), so not just Dutty ROM affected...
[Touch HD General] Matthes42:
so it must be hardware related. it´s the only thing that doesn´t change
[Touch HD General] Elim:
The issue happends only after flashing cooked ROMs. I use my stock ROM for month without problems like many others.

And we all use the same SPLs and USPLs (!!!) for flashing :-(
[Touch HD General] gavb:
as was mentioned above, I think, the moral is to remove SD Card when flashing a new ROM.
[Touch HD General] robertc17:
I've just upgraded to the official HTC 1.56 ROM and have the same issue with the SD card disappearing. What I've so far noticed is that when I access the card from file explorer on the phone that guarantees it gets lost. I can access it from Vista and copy/delete/rename. BUT if I access one particular folder "Live Search" it kills it from Vista as well. So I'm stuck, I can't rename/delete this folder or even access it as the card goes.

Need to format it once all the data is removed.
[Touch HD General] bogdatov:
Just use card reader, backup files and reformat

I now have Dutty's v3.3 (1.56 based) for about a month. Worked fine. Before I had stock ROM (1.54 based) for 6 months w/o problems. Sandisk MicroSD 8GB class 2 - came with HTC HD. BTW, I flashed Dutty's ROM with microSD inserted.

Yesterday I had strange problem ... in HD that microSD card shows up fine, but when I connect HD to PC using ActiveSync - it disappears :( If I disconnect phone from PC and do soft-reset - it appears again.

I tried another microSD card (2GB) - no problems at all. So I guessed I had something wrog with 8GB card. I took it off and put in card reader. Copied files to PC. Some files were CORRUPTED. After that I reformatted microSD in card reader, copied files back to microSD and inserted it into HD. It works fine so far.

I believe that once HD discovers problems reading microSD - it disconnects that card all together. Also I was not able to format microSD inside HD using Resco Explorer - says "Card might be write protected" or something like that :)

I suggest that you (before buying new card or sending HD for repair)

- try to save your files using card reader

- reformat your microSD in card reader

- try again
[Touch HD General] gerardo66:
my experience

ok this my experience

my phone now run Dutty's 3.3

same problem sd card missing

try to buckup!! stop half way

i went back where the back up stops and was a folder with music

i bypass this folder and keep going with the back up

back up is DONE

now formatting my 16 gb sandisk

i think after the update to Dutty's 3.3 (with sd card inserted as usually)

this music file is get corrupted maybe is random (can be to some other person different file)

let me know guy's

gerardo
[Touch HD General] k33lin:
Same as ur guys, my Sandisk 16GB Class 2 card not shown on this morning;

I'm using latest Dutty's v3.4 ROM, while I flashing, my SD card was attached together.

I try to read via card reader on my 2 Vista machine, the system took very long time to load and I've forced to unplug it out. Now I pass the card to friend who using v1.14 stock ROM, hopefully he can read my card.

Will keep ur guys update later.
[Touch HD General] Matthes42:
to my mind it seems to be clear: while updating to roms with the new spl (theses are not only 6.1 or 6.5 cooked roms but even the new stock htc rom) the sd-card might get corrupted.

So i second my opinion:

it is recommened to remove the sd-card while flashing new roms with spl 1.54 and above.
[Touch HD General] k33lin:
I had similar problem, my card wasn't detect in HD or desktop.

The easiest way is to format is to find digital camera with SD slot, then inside ur card to format it.
[Touch HD General] Pierced Soul:
aaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhhh

i've just ahd the same prob with a davideuck v7 ROM which was flashed about a month ago. 8gb card stopped working whilst it was in the phone, couldnt take camera pics (that was the first indication) then it wouldnt read in either the phone or via a card reader in my computer (win XP) or laptop (vista).

chucked a 4gb one in and that works. I'm assuming all my data is lost, most of it was off the computer anyway but i've lost camera pics :mad:
[Touch HD General] sschrupp:
Hmm, I'll have to see if I have a camera laying around that can take the card and do something with it. I'd really hate to throw away a tiny piece of plastic worth $60, but at this point the 16 GB stick is just totally trashed. Hopefully a camera can format where computers and readers couldn't.

On a side note, I formatted the original 8 GB stick that came with the phone, and now pull it out if I do any upgrades. So far it's working fine in the newer ROMS.
[Touch HD General] gavb:
I had the same problem with my 16GB card and re-formatted it with the following app:

http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/sdfv2000.exe

It's now back in my HD and working OK!
[Touch HD General] k33lin:
Now the question is... if we replace with new SD card or new formatted SD card, will the same issue happen again? The newer ROM will not "destroy" the SD card again?

Is there anyone experience 2nd time?
[Touch HD General] Friend of Bill W.:
It is, to my knowledge, not related to any specific ROM but only because once a ROM is flashed onto a device with the SD card left within the device the SD card gets corrupted.

As mentioned in previous posts in this thread I am very certain that once this has happened the SD Card will "never be the same" even if formatted (in different ways)

I strongly recommend to use a new SD Card and NEVER leave it inside when flashing.

To answer your question: No, a NEW SD card will (mostlikely) not be corrupted with any "newer" ROM.

Hope that helps
[Touch HD General] Friend of Bill W.:
+ 1...and more if I could :D
[Touch HD General] k33lin:
Thanks, HTC Lova.

But why few users reported that the corrupted card can read with 1.14 ROM?
[Touch HD General] Friend of Bill W.:
Yes, if you're happy with the older ROMS you should downgrade your device. I prefer a more stable and faster ROM and a new fresh SD card :D
[Touch HD General] k33lin:
I also prefer cooked ROM; But the sudden un-accessable to memory card is BIG problem. Just imagine when u out of desk, u hv no backup, unable to access ur data, this is big risk to play with.
[Touch HD General] Gustopher:
A Few Observations

I have had this issue a couple of times and concur with the majority view here:

The newer ROMs seem to be to blame

They seem to introduce some sort of corruption to the MicroSD Card filesystem

Flashing with the card out seems to be a good idea

Backing up the card before a flash is a similarly good idea

For those who have screwed up a card and are struggling to get data off of it, I can offer one small tip that may help in some cases where a card reader is popping up a view of the card that disappears seconds later:

As soon as the Windows Explorer window appears, close it down - it seems important that you do this as soon as possible!

Open a Command Prompt window - CMD

Navigate to the drive that the card reader has been set up as, e.g. d:

You can then most likely do an xcopy to somewhere on the c: drive

Once you have recovered your data, you can format the card through the command prompt and it should behave normally thereafter

Now for the interesting part; I recently bought a 16gb SANDISK card as an upgrade. All appeared fine with the card at first and I copied the files from my current (recently repaired) card to it with no apparent problems.

Having moved them across I inserted it in my HD, but nothing showed. I put it back in the reader and could see my files, but now I can't do anything with them. I have tried deleting and formatting, through both Windows and DOS. I have tried partitioning tools and several of the utilities listed here but it's not having it. I can still see my files but can't do anything with them. The SDFormatter looks promising but it insiste that the write protect switch is on...which it can't be as there isn't one!

It's entirely possible that the card is just goosed and I have made contact with the supplier. However, they want the card back and I'm reluctant to do so as there are confidential and sensitive files on there that I can't seem to get rid of. I don't think they will be able to read them but don't want to take the chance.

Any ideas?
[Touch HD General] bloke:
I had the same issue, I send my card back to HTC and the replaced it with a new card, I was able to copy the items on the card, but I couldnt delete them.

Bloke
[Touch HD General] 97catalunya:
Hi guys, firstly I am a real novice with winmo phones and certenly no developer, but have found this forum a wealth of infomation ;)

So if it is any help to you I have had my Touch HD about 6 months now purchased from Car Phone Warehouse on orange but I dont think it was running an orange ROM as I secssesfully upgraded to the new ROM from the HTC website (Not brave enough to try a cooked ROM yet)

Anyway my SD card (8gig sandisk came with phone) worked with no issues with the original ROM for the whole 6 months, after flashing to the new HTC ROM (Flashed with card removed) the card will occasionally dissapear from explorer, if I perform a soft reset it will re appear and work fine again, prob happens once a week or so?

Hope that helps a little in diagnosing what the issue may be?

Thanks....
[Touch HD General] k33lin:
Nobody having problem on old ROM 1.14; What's your current ROM version?

* Remember to backup ur card more often since it start disappear on and off
[Touch HD General] 97catalunya:
Hi k33lin Current ROM 1.56.405.1 (43972) WWE, date 06/06/09

Thanks for the advise on the card ;)
[Touch HD General] kensong:
I had this problem with Dutty's cooked ROM 3.3 and prior to all these post, swap for a new SanDisk 16GB to use with 3.3. Then the dissappearing card issue appeared and I used a camera to format the card. After flashing back to an older official ROM and using the same 16GB card after formatting it and replacing my data, I no longer had any card dissapearing issue for the last 10 days.

However, 2 days ago, SPB Backup failed and I soft resetted and backup again and it was fine but when I plug in the Vista, CheckDisk was launched and was ask to do a repair of the 16GB card. I did that and have not had any issues since then.

I am not taking any risk and backup my 16GB regularly just in case it happens again. Since this card ran with Dutty's 3.3 before, chances are some damage may have been done to this card too.

I know for sure if this card was only used with the official ROM, it would be fine.
[Touch HD General] dgen:
I used to have this problem...a lot.

Sometimes my music would fail me with playback..otherwise my sd card wouldn't be recognized by the hd.

Anyway..I bought myself another sd card..and voila..it worked.

Faster response from pc-sd etc

--> Don't use the default sd card that was packaged with the hd <--
[Touch HD General] k33lin:
Remember to BACKUP ur card content before it totally fail to read/write
[Touch HD General] fjellborg:
I have struggle whith storage card in different 56 roms...but with duttys 3.4 shows again my storage card in computer ;)
[Touch HD General] mtcerio:
Hello,

I have the same problem: SD card appears not to be in the slot at all. I'm using the original SanDisk 8Gb SD card in bundle with Orange UK Blackstone.

The strange thing is that it happened once long time ago, few days after buying the phone (so original ROM and everything). In that occasion, a soft reset solved the problem.

Then I flashed my ROM with the official HTC ROM upgrade. No problem for a couple of weeks. Today, after soft-resetting, the SD card was gone. And another soft-reset did not help this time.

It's true that I left the SD while flashing, but is it possible that the corruption problem comes out several weeks *after* flashing?

Anyway, I hope to recover my data now through the PC at least, and I hope that formatting the card will solve the problem forever. I don't want this problem to happen while I'm traveling. BTW, are there cases in which the problem reappeared after formatting the SD?

Thanks

maTTeo
[Touch HD General] Friend of Bill W.:
Sometimes yes, sometimes no, its not really possible to narrow it down.

With the SD card formatter ( I've provided a link in one of my posts here) you should be able to format the SD Card through your PC. Turn HD off and on, connect USB cable and start SD Formatter . Format the card, restart and see how it goes.

Your safest bet would be a new SD card but maybe above works for you. good luck
[Touch HD General] mtcerio:
Dear HTC lova,

Thanks for your reply and help.

I tried to plug the SD into the reader connected to my PC... Vista detected the drive F:, empty, but was not able to format it. Tried also sdfv2000.exe, but as well was saying "drive not supported". I thought my SD card was gone.

Then I thought to plug the microSD card into my Canon camera through an adapter... and voilà! The Canon camera was able to format the card!! Then I re-plugged the card into the PC, and I could re-format it using both Vista and sdfv2000.exe. In other words, the SD card was back!

So I hope this helps... if you cannot see/format the SD card using your HTC or your PC... try your camera!

Now the question is: how long it will last before the next data corruption?

maTTeo
[Touch HD General] Friend of Bill W.:
No one can answer this question of course but if it works without problems for a couple of days you should be fine. I personally would put it to the test by up & downloading files , installing some programs ect. Good luck
[Touch HD General] grigsound:
Just don't use the file explorer...

I've notice that when I use the default file explorer my SD card goes by by.

When I use Resco Explorer it doesn't...:confused:

Soooo, I will never use the file explorer!:D

Problem solved! (at least for me)