Card Problems and learned a few things

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Peter Franks wrote:
> Since I read so many bad things about SanDisk, I got a Lexar SD card for my
> T|E. Backup Buddy came highly recommended, especially since the latest
> version is supposed to be able to backup the system from the SD.
>
> Instead, I got a fatal crash, etc., and wound up doing a hard reset. Backup
> Buddy not only wouldn't work, but the Lexar card claims to be "read only"
> (no, the tab is in the right position, but thanks for checking) and I can do
> nothing about it. Not even format it.
>
> Is there a way around this, to fool the machine into letting me format it so
> it is not "read only" again?
>
> Here's the bigger news: I don't need Backup Buddy, really. (Sure, if it
> works, it would be great to restore in the field. But I suspect that it
> caused my fatal problems in the first place, since it was the last
> application that I was using when it all went down.) When I did the Hot
> Sync, *everything* came back, including third party applications like VisKey
> and some freeware! Hey, I heard in more than one place that it won't happen!
>
> I'm the lucky one! Wow, a complete data disaster crash and full system
> restore in five minutes.
>
> I'm using Palm OS 5.2.1, and Palm Desktop 4.1.2.
>
> But I still have the question, if it was a bad card or Backup Buddy that
> caused the problems.
>
> And how do I backup the backup on the hard drive?
>
> Sorry, I got wound up here.
>
>
BackupBuddyVFS has been around for a long time and sold many copies. It
certainly gives me no trouble on my Zire 71, also Palm OS 5.2.1. Its
good to look at the last thing you did as the source of a problem. I
would however not be in a hurry to blame it without proof. With
problems like this you need to find the cause or the problem may come back.

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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:04:57 -0400, Peter Franks had this to say...


> Instead, I got a fatal crash, etc., and wound up doing a hard reset. Backup
> Buddy not only wouldn't work, but the Lexar card claims to be "read only"
> (no, the tab is in the right position, but thanks for checking) and I can do
> nothing about it. Not even format it.
>
> Is there a way around this, to fool the machine into letting me format it so
> it is not "read only" again?
>
>

I use BBVFS with my T3 OS 5.2.1 with no problems.
Some SD Cards go bad, they have electronics in them. Take it back to
where you bought it and get it replaced.
-=OR=- If you have a card reader, try to reformat it FAT16 or run
DiskScan on it.

--
Hope this helps.
Jim Anderson
( 8(|) To email me just pull my_finger

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I have a Tungsten3 with OS 5.2.1 using a sandisk 64 meg card with
BackupBuddy VFS 2.15.
Zero problems.
I even used the restore function once with a bad download and it worked
perfect.
Whenever I update or install a program, I will backup my palm with BBVFS
2.15, that way, if the newly installed program messes up my palm, I just
restore my T3 back before I had installed the program.
BBVFS 2.15 works fine for me.
"Jim Anderson" <fro2750@frontiernet.my_finger.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:04:57 -0400, Peter Franks had this to say...
>
>
> > Instead, I got a fatal crash, etc., and wound up doing a hard reset.
Backup
> > Buddy not only wouldn't work, but the Lexar card claims to be "read
only"
> > (no, the tab is in the right position, but thanks for checking) and I
can do
> > nothing about it. Not even format it.
> >
> > Is there a way around this, to fool the machine into letting me format
it so
> > it is not "read only" again?
> >
> >
>
> I use BBVFS with my T3 OS 5.2.1 with no problems.
> Some SD Cards go bad, they have electronics in them. Take it back to
> where you bought it and get it replaced.
> -=OR=- If you have a card reader, try to reformat it FAT16 or run
> DiskScan on it.
>
> --
> Hope this helps.
> Jim Anderson
> ( 8(|) To email me just pull my_finger

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Peter Franks <hazard53@mailcan.removethis.com> wrote:



> And how do I backup the backup on the hard drive?

In exactly the same way as you backup all your other data-- frequently.

Luke

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On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:09:58 -0400, Peter Franks had this to say...


>
> "Guy Bannis" <guy@ether.net> wrote in message
> news:guy-2608042135440001@192.168.1.103...
> > In article <2p7j6eFi3b3qU1@uni-berlin.de>, "Peter Franks"
> > <hazard53@mailcan.removethis.com> wrote:
> >
> > > And how do I backup the backup on the hard drive?
> >
> > How do you ever back up stuff on the hard drive? You copy it to something
> > else, such as a CD, another hard drive, or ... a floppy!
>
> I shoulda specified: *what* do I back up? I'm not sure of the file names,
> backing up enough info, that sort of thing.
>
>
>

Find your Palm dir, c:\program files\palm, in it should be a directory
that looks like you username, (my username is Jim Anderson, my dir name
is AndersJ) back that up.

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Hope this helps.
Jim Anderson
( 8(|) To email me just pull my_finger

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"Jim Anderson" <fro2750@frontiernet.my_finger.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1b985ee5a2df2053989805@news.frontiernet.net...
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:04:57 -0400, Peter Franks had this to say...
>
>
> > Instead, I got a fatal crash, etc., and wound up doing a hard reset.
Backup
> > Buddy not only wouldn't work, but the Lexar card claims to be "read
only"
> > (no, the tab is in the right position, but thanks for checking) and I
can do
> > nothing about it. Not even format it.
> >
> > Is there a way around this, to fool the machine into letting me format
it so
> > it is not "read only" again?
> >
> >
>
> I use BBVFS with my T3 OS 5.2.1 with no problems.
> Some SD Cards go bad, they have electronics in them. Take it back to
> where you bought it and get it replaced.
> -=OR=- If you have a card reader, try to reformat it FAT16 or run
> DiskScan on it.

I know nothing from card readers, but I did take the thing back. After
reformatting the replacement, it seems to be working. (The defective one
refused to even be reformatted...must have been defective, like people are
saying.)

What do you think, is it a good practice to format every new card before
using it?

>
> --
> Hope this helps.
> Jim Anderson
> ( 8(|) To email me just pull my_finger