CF Corruption?

[mat429]

Hi,

i recently completed my H132 conversion succesfully with a transcend 32gb compact flash card ( woo hoo ) worked great.

unfortunetly after a couple of weeks of perfect use i made the cardinal sin of disconnecting the USB without first "safely disconnecting hardware".

this resulted in a refusal to read anything from the CF.  I have managed to retest the player with the old disk - which works fine. bootloader does not see the card.

Is there any way to recover the contents of the CF - or get it to read at all or is it completely corrupted for ever? - would seem a little bit harsh for a moment of madness.

please feel free to tell me that :

a) this isnt a rockbox issue.
b) its a compact flash issue.
c) i should always use safely remove hardware
d) i'm an idiot.

if the answer is that i have broken it forever then let its an expensive lesson to learn.

thanks for any responses

[Llorean]

Have you tried it in a standalone CF reader?

I mean honestly, the worst case I can imagine is just that you'd have to reformat it.

[mat429]

yeah - thats what i was thinking

i'm still in the process of trying different things. i have just tried it in a standalone CF reader it just doesnt appear to be there. "insert a disk into drive ......"

the best i got was once using bootloader, briefly, it appeared as a drive with 0 bytes - i shouldve run chkdsk while i had the chance, but now i cant even get it to recreate that...

 

thanks for any responses

Mat

[TAC109]

Assuming you're using Windows, you should be able to format the CF drive starting from: right-click My Computer -> Manage -> Disk Management.

To avoid this problem happening in the future set the Windows policy for removable drives to 'Optimise for Quick Removal'.

[ej0rge]

Have you tried inserting it into a PCMCIA sleeve and sliding it into a laptop with a pcmcia slot? Just wondering if it might behave differently when it's not in ATA mode.

I can't figure how unplugging it without flushing the buffers would corrupt the configuration of the card itself, but i guess anything is possible.

What's the warranty on these transcend cards? You could just tell them that one day you turned on your camera and it didn't work