Thread: What is the worst thing you've ever done to your internet tablet, pda or, umpc?
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2008-05-13 , 16:30
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Originally Posted by ericcmi View Post
I 'had' a 4GB SD card installed in the internal slot. I noticed the path disappeared from the file manager when I removed the back panel. So I assumed that if it was unmounted then it must be safe to remove with the device on. *wrong*. Fried the bastard. The data that was on it is still readable via my usb flash reader and ubuntu, but is both unwritable and unflashable. lame. For this reason I am afriad to 'remove' my 8GB SD from the 'removable memory card' slot without totally powering down and unplugging the n800 altogether.
It works fine here, swapping cards while it's on... You wait till it would have brought up an alarm complaining about it being in use, and if it doesn't give one, you're clear to remove it. I expect it had data on it corrupted somehow already, and you just didn't notice till the next mount. You try the Panasonic SD formatter (Windows only)? That, or maybe run it through the washer...
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