SD card failure? - 5th Aug 2013 9:24am
A bit odd – SD card failure?
I have an 8GB SD (micro) card. Scandisk Ultra cat 6 type. Has been used for quite a while (year, maybe 2) in a security camera. If the security camera “trips” I look at the content – usually boring eg cats & foxes in the garden – then reformat the card. I guess the card gets reformatted every few weeks.
The card seems to have failed. When I came to look at it (after transfer to a regular SD adapter) in the computer card slot the message was simply
“You need to format this card before you can use it. Do you want to format it?”
Normally the card contains a series of AVI files that I can look at. However, not this time. On a basis that the card will not contain anything of importance I say yes to the format option – but :
When the format menu pops up the card capacity is shown as
30.6 MB
File system FAT
Allocation unit size 512 bytes
Seems odd for an 8GB card!
When I say “go” to format then after the warning that “this will erase all data” Windows responds with “Windows was unable to complete the format. OK” –
No, not OK thank you Windows. Yes, I have checked that the card is not locked etc.
Any ideas folks. I have no special interest in what may be on the card so any sort of wipe/ format is ok – unless of course examining the disk content may show up the cause of the problem. I could just throw the card in the bin but it intrigues me as to WHY the card failed after a modest period of successful use.
Ideas welcomed
Snod
I have an 8GB SD (micro) card. Scandisk Ultra cat 6 type. Has been used for quite a while (year, maybe 2) in a security camera. If the security camera “trips” I look at the content – usually boring eg cats & foxes in the garden – then reformat the card. I guess the card gets reformatted every few weeks.
The card seems to have failed. When I came to look at it (after transfer to a regular SD adapter) in the computer card slot the message was simply
“You need to format this card before you can use it. Do you want to format it?”
Normally the card contains a series of AVI files that I can look at. However, not this time. On a basis that the card will not contain anything of importance I say yes to the format option – but :
When the format menu pops up the card capacity is shown as
30.6 MB
File system FAT
Allocation unit size 512 bytes
Seems odd for an 8GB card!
When I say “go” to format then after the warning that “this will erase all data” Windows responds with “Windows was unable to complete the format. OK” –
No, not OK thank you Windows. Yes, I have checked that the card is not locked etc.
Any ideas folks. I have no special interest in what may be on the card so any sort of wipe/ format is ok – unless of course examining the disk content may show up the cause of the problem. I could just throw the card in the bin but it intrigues me as to WHY the card failed after a modest period of successful use.
Ideas welcomed
Snod