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truno
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_ 		8. July 2008 @ 19:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
So i Used my 1 gig Sandisk to make a pandora battery. Now my memstick is unusable. The PSP won't read it, I can't format it using windows and I've tried a couple of data recovery programs but they only...recover DATA (crayzy I know).

What i need is a program or a way to write the FAT or whatever fileing system it had that i aperently wiped. Windows says it's RAW. Also windows says the size of the disk is 0mb. I've try'd using my PSP to format but it says no stick entered.

So forum folk am I out a memstick?
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mrleftnut
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_ 		9. July 2008 @ 21:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
try the following steps:

insert your memory stick into whatever youre using as a card reader.

next, in windows, right click on my computer and click manage.

underneath the storage icon, click "disk management"

now find your memory stick in the disk management window and right click on it and either select format or create partition, whichever works.
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truno
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_ 		11. July 2008 @ 18:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I tried that but what give me that option. all it says is the removable disk on line. I have the ability to change the drive letter but when i go to properties for that disk it says 0mb for capacity, allocated and unallocated space. the partition style is MBR. I even went so far as to try to do it via command line but I got size errors. There has to be a third party program that can write to this disk because what I think happened is the disk bios or whatever software makes it run got deleted. i have another 1 gig. is there a way to copy its software and write it to the damaged one?
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truno
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_ 		11. July 2008 @ 18:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
sorry for soe reason it wouldn't let me edit my previouse post, or i don't know how. but what i meant in the first sentence above was that XP wouldn't give me that option to create a partition on the memory card. do you think using a different type of card reader might help?
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truno
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_ 		20. July 2008 @ 12:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
does any one know any good low level formating tools for magic gate memory cards?
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kingrico
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_ 		21. July 2008 @ 05:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Try using swissknife - http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swissknife/swissknife.htm

It worked wonders on my micro sd - and it's free and easy to use.

Can't say fairer than that!

Let me know how you get on.

Good Luck,

R
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truno
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_ 		24. July 2008 @ 02:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
swiss knife doesn't see the card. Maybe I can preform a chd disk somehow
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Dark_ZaK
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_ 		24. July 2008 @ 03:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
if windows reads it (even it it is all corrupted like 0 mb) then try right clicking the drive, pressing format and setting the "restore default....." to on and format.
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Dr1ver
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_ 		24. July 2008 @ 03:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
does the psp read it?

if so format it on the psp then it will format it to the correct fat settings and create the correct folders on the ms for you

it it doesnt read on the psp even when formatted then its broken
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truno
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_ 		1. August 2008 @ 18:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
psp doesn't read it, windows wont format it. what I did is an app that dose low level formating for memory cards. I'm really not worried because 1 gig cards are like 20 bucks now but I would like to figure this out in case I run into this problem with my very expensive 8 gig card.
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truno
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_ 		1. August 2008 @ 18:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
How do you freaking edit posts? any way what I meant was i need and app not did an app.
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