Technology Hates Me

[Tbone]

So besides the fact that I consider getting my computer to only bluescreen once every three or four days now a major victory, the memory card to my cell phone is now on the fritz. I had been taking pictures with my cell sporatically for the last few months, and last night I finally got around to organizing them (using Nokia PC Suite). I had just about renamed all the files and was going to move them onto my computer when I got the error "The operation cannot be completed".

Well, I exit out of the file manager and try to exit out of the memory card on the phone, and it's staying blank. Eventually I have to turn the phone off, and when I turn it back on I've lost everything on the memory card - pictures, ringtones, etc. I browse to the memory card via "Gallery" and it's showing 0.0kb or whatever. I try to access it and it says the card is not formatted and asks me if I would like to. If I say yes, it says it is going to wipe all the data, so I cancel.

So here's my question. Can I fix my MMC card without having to wipe the data? I only have access to my phone/memory card from my computer via bluetooth connection. Most "memory restore" software I've found won't work through a bluetooth connection. Any suggestions?

[Da6onet]

well better than my problem, my phone's memory is full, even though i deleted everything off of it :-/

[Anonymous]

Other than that sucks : / I really wish I could help man.

[Anonymous]

Try wiping the connectors with a soft lint-free non-static cloth

[Ketamininja]

Ok, the table of contents seems to have died.
Quite a common thing for USB connectable devices - for example if you simply remove a USB pen from a machine without "safely removing", then it can lose the table. Now I know this isn't strictly USB, but the connection type is similar, in terms of architecture.

What you need is some sort of recovery software. Although the tables are gone, the data should still be there.

OnTrack Data Recovery is great recover tool, and I think it's 30 days free. Get in touch with me if you can't find a free trial copy.

Good luck!

[Avzeke (Khr0n1k)]

OnTrack Data Recovery is great recover tool, and I think it's 30 days free. Get in touch with me if you can't find a free trial copy.
Good luck!

Mwhahhahahahaha!

[Tbone]

Does this OnTrack thing work over a bluetooth connection? For instance, if I connected to my phone via bluetooth, would I be able to use the program to access the memory card on my phone? Right now the memory card doesn't even show up on the browser when I connect to the phone.

[Anonymous]

Do use Bluetooth Serial Port?

[Ketamininja]

It works on any drive letter.
Sorry, I was thinking that you were inserting the card into a reader, rather than IR/BT.
If those methods show up as drive letters (which I don't think they do), bor if you can map them to a letter (never tried), then it might work....

The chances got smaller, that's for sure.

[Tbone]

Found the program, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get it to scan and attempt to recover from my phone connected via the PC Suite Bluetooth. It just tries to recover from partitions on the computer.

Yeah, when I try to map a network drive, it only lets me search the things found on My Network Places and not My Bluetooth Places...

[Tbone]

Hah, silly me. Turns out this computer has an MMC drive. lol. Your program is showing the drive is empty, though:

Floppy Disk A: [512 Bytes]
Unidentified [0 Bytes]

Does this mean the whole card has already been wiped? I never formatted

[Avzeke (Khr0n1k)]

uh ohh, that just might be what that means.

[Tbone]

Why would it just wipe itself completely like that? It's like it auto-reset'ed or something.

[Tbone]

I went ahead and formatted, and now anything that I put on the memory card on my phone shows up as "file type not supported".

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[Tbone]

AND I just broke my bluetooth dongle...

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