My AXIM wants to format my SD card!!! Why???

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There is a thread with some good sd card advice about 5 days ago with the
subject "Scandisk SD 1GB".

You may want to check it out and see if anything in there helps.




"Daniel" <Dan@tteel.com> wrote in message
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>I recently purchased a 1GB ATP 60x SD card for my Dell Axim X30. The
> first day I instereted the card it asked me to format it before I can
> use it,I said YES, and everything was going good. I copied a bunch of
> MP3's and was playing them fine. After a day or so, I turned on my
> PPC and up came the orginal message I got the first time I inserted
> the card, it asked me to format the card before I can use it. If I
> say no, the card doesnt show up, if I say yes, well it erases
> everything and starts to work again. I have tried restarting the unit
> with that card in, removing and reinserting the card, nothing, it
> wants to format the card as if it was a new card. It works for a
> couple of times and then, it asked to format!
>
> Any ideas why this is happening?
> Thanks Daniel.

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Try putting your card in a card reader attached to your computer and THEN
reformat.


"Chance Hopkins" <chance_hopkins@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> There is a thread with some good sd card advice about 5 days ago with the
> subject "Scandisk SD 1GB".
>
> You may want to check it out and see if anything in there helps.
>
>
>
>
> "Daniel" <Dan@tteel.com> wrote in message
> news:gnvsu09t4u9encqveo2jspfk2aq7mdp796@4ax.com...
> >I recently purchased a 1GB ATP 60x SD card for my Dell Axim X30. The
> > first day I instereted the card it asked me to format it before I can
> > use it,I said YES, and everything was going good. I copied a bunch of
> > MP3's and was playing them fine. After a day or so, I turned on my
> > PPC and up came the orginal message I got the first time I inserted
> > the card, it asked me to format the card before I can use it. If I
> > say no, the card doesnt show up, if I say yes, well it erases
> > everything and starts to work again. I have tried restarting the unit
> > with that card in, removing and reinserting the card, nothing, it
> > wants to format the card as if it was a new card. It works for a
> > couple of times and then, it asked to format!
> >
> > Any ideas why this is happening?
> > Thanks Daniel.
>
>

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Thanks for the replys!

Okay, I downloaded Pocket Mechanic and did a low-level format, then a
logical format as FAT32. I used if for a while copying and playing music.
I woke up this morning and turned on the unit, and the message came up
again, you must format. So I took the card to my USB reader connected to my
PC, inserted it and when to the dirve and that too wanted to format it!!!
But this time whan I took it back to the PPC, it didnt say anything,
however, the card was empty everything was gone!!!

So now I have formated it on my PC and giving that a try....

Any other suggetions?

"Jasper Recto" <jrecto99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Try putting your card in a card reader attached to your computer and THEN
> reformat.
>
>
> "Chance Hopkins" <chance_hopkins@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23skQqGk$EHA.1904@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> There is a thread with some good sd card advice about 5 days ago with the
>> subject "Scandisk SD 1GB".
>>
>> You may want to check it out and see if anything in there helps.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Daniel" <Dan@tteel.com> wrote in message
>> news:gnvsu09t4u9encqveo2jspfk2aq7mdp796@4ax.com...
>> >I recently purchased a 1GB ATP 60x SD card for my Dell Axim X30. The
>> > first day I instereted the card it asked me to format it before I can
>> > use it,I said YES, and everything was going good. I copied a bunch of
>> > MP3's and was playing them fine. After a day or so, I turned on my
>> > PPC and up came the orginal message I got the first time I inserted
>> > the card, it asked me to format the card before I can use it. If I
>> > say no, the card doesnt show up, if I say yes, well it erases
>> > everything and starts to work again. I have tried restarting the unit
>> > with that card in, removing and reinserting the card, nothing, it
>> > wants to format the card as if it was a new card. It works for a
>> > couple of times and then, it asked to format!
>> >
>> > Any ideas why this is happening?
>> > Thanks Daniel.
>>
>>
>
>

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Success, I hope...

I reformated the SD card on my PC and it has not asked me to reformat the
card yet.

Thanks for all the help!
Daniel.

"Jasper Recto" <jrecto99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news RdTY0k$EHA.3924@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Try putting your card in a card reader attached to your computer and THEN
> reformat.
>
>
> "Chance Hopkins" <chance_hopkins@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23skQqGk$EHA.1904@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> There is a thread with some good sd card advice about 5 days ago with the
>> subject "Scandisk SD 1GB".
>>
>> You may want to check it out and see if anything in there helps.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Daniel" <Dan@tteel.com> wrote in message
>> news:gnvsu09t4u9encqveo2jspfk2aq7mdp796@4ax.com...
>> >I recently purchased a 1GB ATP 60x SD card for my Dell Axim X30. The
>> > first day I instereted the card it asked me to format it before I can
>> > use it,I said YES, and everything was going good. I copied a bunch of
>> > MP3's and was playing them fine. After a day or so, I turned on my
>> > PPC and up came the orginal message I got the first time I inserted
>> > the card, it asked me to format the card before I can use it. If I
>> > say no, the card doesnt show up, if I say yes, well it erases
>> > everything and starts to work again. I have tried restarting the unit
>> > with that card in, removing and reinserting the card, nothing, it
>> > wants to format the card as if it was a new card. It works for a
>> > couple of times and then, it asked to format!
>> >
>> > Any ideas why this is happening?
>> > Thanks Daniel.
>>
>>
>
>