Hey Guys,
in the last 3 days I've been trying to format my Trancend 32GB microSD card class 10 (FAT32) after the gopro3 froze and had to remove it's battery to reset it. Read a lot, tried at least 10 tools. No success.
It just cannot be formatted. I can read the videos except the last file.
These are the things I tried and at the bottom I've written in details about the accident.
Windows formatting(Win 7)
- Quick Format gives an error in the begining that it cannot be formated.
- Full Format goes through the full process and in the end gives the same error
- tried under Promt - same as full format. the message is different (invalid media or track 0 bad)
- tried diskpart - can't create a partition
MAC
- Disk utility tried almost any kind of combinations for formating, partition creation, repairing - no success
apps on win:
- HDD Low Level Format Tool 4.25 - did a low level format successfully but nothing changed.
- SDFormatter V3.1 - says it's write protected but microSDs do not have such switch
- HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - NS
- EaseUS Partition Master 9.2.2 - when I delete a partition and apply, then refreshes it goes back to the initial state. When del partition and try to create again it says:"There are some error occurred while writing partition chains to disk". There is an option bar when creating partitions which you could drag and select from where to where to make the partition. I tried to make only the second half, tried a tiny piece - both give partition chains error.
device formatting:
tried formatting it through gopro3 and gopro1 - no success
tried with mobile phone htc wildfire s - doesn't even recognize it
From so much testing now the drive does not appear in WIN but appears in MAC ( I think it happened toying with EaseUS Partition Master)
I guess from so much shoot and miss I will need a more intellingent look on this...
DETAILS:
Some of you may know GoPro3 has been released with quite a lot of bugs. They did an update but after the update it still froze while recording a movie and showed FULL. The strange thing I noticed was that it had exactly 3,99GB of data which somehow reminded me of FAT32, but that wouldn't apply cause there was no file bigger than 4GB. There were lots of files which sum made 3.99GB. So the last file went wrong when recording at the 3.99GB line. I can see the last file cause it has been saved but it's broken.
The GoPro3 reads the card and shows signs that It's ok to work with. Display is showing 27 videos recorded. When I try to record more the count increases and everything is smooth. But when turn off and turn on it's back on the 27 movies as if nothing happened. The sd card is just STUCK.
???
Any suggestions on what could have happened and is there a way to format the sd card
???
in the last 3 days I've been trying to format my Trancend 32GB microSD card class 10 (FAT32) after the gopro3 froze and had to remove it's battery to reset it. Read a lot, tried at least 10 tools. No success.
It just cannot be formatted. I can read the videos except the last file.
These are the things I tried and at the bottom I've written in details about the accident.
Windows formatting(Win 7)
- Quick Format gives an error in the begining that it cannot be formated.
- Full Format goes through the full process and in the end gives the same error
- tried under Promt - same as full format. the message is different (invalid media or track 0 bad)
- tried diskpart - can't create a partition
MAC
- Disk utility tried almost any kind of combinations for formating, partition creation, repairing - no success
apps on win:
- HDD Low Level Format Tool 4.25 - did a low level format successfully but nothing changed.
- SDFormatter V3.1 - says it's write protected but microSDs do not have such switch
- HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - NS
- EaseUS Partition Master 9.2.2 - when I delete a partition and apply, then refreshes it goes back to the initial state. When del partition and try to create again it says:"There are some error occurred while writing partition chains to disk". There is an option bar when creating partitions which you could drag and select from where to where to make the partition. I tried to make only the second half, tried a tiny piece - both give partition chains error.
device formatting:
tried formatting it through gopro3 and gopro1 - no success
tried with mobile phone htc wildfire s - doesn't even recognize it
From so much testing now the drive does not appear in WIN but appears in MAC ( I think it happened toying with EaseUS Partition Master)
I guess from so much shoot and miss I will need a more intellingent look on this...
DETAILS:
Some of you may know GoPro3 has been released with quite a lot of bugs. They did an update but after the update it still froze while recording a movie and showed FULL. The strange thing I noticed was that it had exactly 3,99GB of data which somehow reminded me of FAT32, but that wouldn't apply cause there was no file bigger than 4GB. There were lots of files which sum made 3.99GB. So the last file went wrong when recording at the 3.99GB line. I can see the last file cause it has been saved but it's broken.
The GoPro3 reads the card and shows signs that It's ok to work with. Display is showing 27 videos recorded. When I try to record more the count increases and everything is smooth. But when turn off and turn on it's back on the 27 movies as if nothing happened. The sd card is just STUCK.
???
Any suggestions on what could have happened and is there a way to format the sd card
???
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