I recently bought a Sandisk 512 MB SD card for use in my Tungsten T. It worked fine at first. Then all the data was corrupted. I reformatted the card using Windows XP and a card reader. I then put the card in the Tungsten and it said that it needed to be reformatted - did I want to have the Tungsten do it now? I said yes. Ever since then I cannot read the card in the card reader - I get a 'not responding' error for the drive. If I put the card into the Tungsten I receive a "The handheld cannot recognize this card" error. What can I do?
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SD Card Problems
- Thread starter solara54
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It sounds like your card reader may be the problem. The SD card needs to be formatted using FAT16. When you formatted the card in your card reader, it probably formatted the card using FAT32. The Palm couldn't read FAT32 so it reformatted it to FAT16. You now probably have a corrupted combination of FAT16 and FAT32 on the card. You might try another card reader that has the ability to read and format FAT16 cards and see if this solves your problem.
Miss Priss
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Today I took my Tungsten and the card to a friend that is a computer / networking guy. He could not read the card (or format iit) in any of a number of devices. He then gave me a card that operated in his stuff and told me to put it in my Tungsten. The Tungsten gave me the same error it gave me with my card. How do I know if my Tungsten is messed up?
Due 4/20/2010 with # 3
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There are a number of possibilities:
1. The card itself is bad - quite likely if it can't be read on other machines either.
2. The card you were given is formatted in FAT32. Depending on what kind of Palm your friend has, it's possible that it will read a FAT32 formatted card and yours won't.
3. Answer one is correct AND you just happen to have an SD card slot that has failed.
As a final test, I would buy another SD card and see if works it your T|T. If it doesn't, there's been a hardware failure in your T|T. If it works, it's possible that your original card format is corrupt and answer two is correct.
1. The card itself is bad - quite likely if it can't be read on other machines either.
2. The card you were given is formatted in FAT32. Depending on what kind of Palm your friend has, it's possible that it will read a FAT32 formatted card and yours won't.
3. Answer one is correct AND you just happen to have an SD card slot that has failed.
As a final test, I would buy another SD card and see if works it your T|T. If it doesn't, there's been a hardware failure in your T|T. If it works, it's possible that your original card format is corrupt and answer two is correct.