SD card just died
 

Guys my 16Gb SD card just died. I was trying to do a backup so I wanted to remove old one but it didn't allow me saying that card is in read only mode, then i tried to connect it via USB phone said that there are errors and suggested to fix them on PC ( I tried Wind 7 64bit)

It found errors and said that successfully recovered however I was not able to browse card and then it completely disappeared from my computer , N900 also doesn't see, printer says error in memory card...so can you tell me is it really dead? no option to recover? do you know any good software?

Thanks

Re: SD card just died
 

Why are you thanking me? :(

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sounds pretty bad. maybe some data restoration company could manage to pull something out from the card but there is probably nothing to do @home to it

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I got it for $40 so it was a good deal but looks like i went cheap and payed the price , ever heard of Lexar? maybe i should contact them? what do you think? will they replace it?

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it should of came with a warranty

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you can try to do an exact clone of the sd. On your n900 do
sudo su then dd if=/dev/mmcblk1 of=/home/user/MyDocs/sd_backup.img bs=100M

I am not very sure about the "bs=100M" I usually just run it without it. However, some ppl say it's faster when you have a value there.

16GB gonna take some time to finish so be patient

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Will this work even if N900 doesnt see the card?

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Lol just for the fun I contacted live chat and here is what the so called specialist told me :D

I asked the obvious question Why was the adapter included in the first place and he just ignored it and said to return item to the store :(

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not even the device ?

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nope :( good thing i kept the receipt , gonna go to best buy tomorrow