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Card worked perfectly until I used the live CD to install EEEXubuntu. Lost power during the install and now SD cannot be recognized on 4 different PC's. If anyone knows how to rescue this SD card I would greatly appreciate your help 
ModNote™: The official and generally accepted term is SDHC, which is more likely to net you actual results. Which may also explain why googling for HCSD turns up a number of links for the Hillsborough County School District, but none about flash cards. 
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I have a 16GB SDHC card which was working fine until I started to install EEEXubuntu and had to stop half way thru the installation. Now the card is not recognized. Have put it into 3 other PC's and none of them seem to recognise that I have put the card in. Is there a way to fix this? I have read that you can reformat it but how when it is not showing??
Your help appreciated
Gazmania
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That'll learn ya! Not sure you can point the finger at eeeXubuntu. I suspect that most installers could do this if you lost power... What happened? Did you do the install while on battery? Was it during partitioning, or the OS install? A longshot, but try a low level formatting utility (just google it- eg HP format tool - there are others out there) and see if you can recover using it.
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Time for a RMA? When you put the card in the other computers was in winxp? If so, you may find it in the computer manager. Right click My Computer and look in the disk managerment.
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There was actually another user that described something very similar. We suggested several things, see here:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=19648
...but none of them worked for her/him. I *seriously* doubt either of you have destroyed your SDHC cards, but at the same time, troubleshooting them from a distance is quite difficult. You might try the suggestions in the other thread.
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bw wrote:
Time for a RMA? When you put the card in the other computers was in winxp? If so, you may find it in the computer manager. Right click My Computer and look in the disk managerment.
Shows up as a drive but when you click it it asks to put something in the drive. EEEXubuntu recognises the 16GB card as 7GB after formatting it. The EEEXubuntu live disk is definitely the culprit. I have put the card in Kubuntu machines and they dont recognise it at all. In windows it is seen as a drive but not as a useable device.
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mkrishnan wrote:
There was actually another user that described something very similar. We suggested several things, see here:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=19648
...but none of them worked for her/him. I *seriously* doubt either of you have destroyed your SDHC cards, but at the same time, troubleshooting them from a distance is quite difficult. You might try the suggestions in the other thread.
Thanks but that thread was useless
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gazmania wrote:
The EEEXubuntu live disk is definitely the culprit.
Are you absolutely sure that this is the case? You don't seem to have given any information about the SDHC Card in question, here - would you mind posting some? For example, what brand, how old, where was it purchased, and so on.
The reason I ask this is because, for all we know, it could be a small-capacity fake card from a bad eBay seller, hacked to appear as 16GB when used in a computer, but only revealing its true capacity when trying to write more data than its *real* capacity causes it to crash and burn...
If not (I do hope it's not the above, and is fixable), and if it's a new card, you may be better off looking into getting a replacement from the place of purchase, or from the manufacturer if it's still within warranty.
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Without even knowing the manufacturer there isn't much to do. Might have to do a low-level format but that would really depend on who made it and if they offer the tool for that. If it's an Adata card I'm not surprised by its failure.
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Sage_Harpuia wrote:
gazmania wrote:
The EEEXubuntu live disk is definitely the culprit.
Are you absolutely sure that this is the case? You don't seem to have given any information about the SDHC Card in question, here - would you mind posting some? For example, what brand, how old, where was it purchased, and so on.
The reason I ask this is because, for all we know, it could be a small-capacity fake card from a bad eBay seller, hacked to appear as 16GB when used in a computer, but only revealing its true capacity when trying to write more data than its *real* capacity causes it to crash and burn...
If not (I do hope it's not the above, and is fixable), and if it's a new card, you may be better off looking into getting a replacement from the place of purchase, or from the manufacturer if it's still within warranty.
It's an Adata card 16GB. I bought it from an Ebay seller based in China. It was working fine until EEEXUbuntu got halfway thru installing to it. The installation stopped half way thru. I was supposed to change the the drive from HD0 to HD1 during install process but failed to do that. Could that effect the card? Anyway it appears the card is completely useless now. Windows and kubuntu machines don't even recognize it's there. Only EEEXubuntu live CD recognises it as 7GB but cannot wite to it or format it.
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dvdivx wrote:
Without even knowing the manufacturer there isn't much to do. Might have to do a low-level format but that would really depend on who made it and if they offer the tool for that. If it's an Adata card I'm not surprised by its failure.
Where would I find such a tool? What is a low level format? PC doesn't even recognise it's there how can I format it?
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gazmania wrote:
It's an Adata card 16GB. I bought it from an Ebay seller based in China. It was working fine until EEEXUbuntu got halfway thru installing to it. The installation stopped half way thru.
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Only EEEXubuntu live CD recognises it as 7GB but cannot wite to it or format it.
Hmm... sounds like a lower capacity (8GB?) card "tricked out" to pretend it's a 16GB unit. Very common scam with flash memory and various overseas eBay sellers.
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artrafael wrote:
gazmania wrote:
It's an Adata card 16GB. I bought it from an Ebay seller based in China. It was working fine until EEEXUbuntu got halfway thru installing to it. The installation stopped half way thru.
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Only EEEXubuntu live CD recognises it as 7GB but cannot wite to it or format it.Hmm... sounds like a lower capacity (8GB?) card "tricked out" to pretend it's a 16GB unit. Very common scam with flash memory and various overseas eBay sellers.
Yeah look that could be it. It is also around the size of one on the partitions I created on the card originally. I had 8GB 5GB and 3GB. If it was tricked or whatever it doesn't like being tricked back to 8GB because it doesn't even work now. The only thing that will recognize it is the EEEXubuntu live CD. Pupeee won't. Kubuntu Won't. XP won't. And I think thats because EEEXubuntu (or maybe Gparted as part of the EEEXubuntu install process) ruined it.
BUT maybe it is just a dodgy card. After installing Pupee to the SDHC it booted several times ok then just hung. Maybe it was the card starting to show cracks? Anyway no one on this forum seems to know an answer. They suggest either a soft or hard format but don't tell you how to do either.
Looking on the net it seems these cards are extremely unreliable. I had an MP3 that worked perfectly then Instead of plugging it into my PC I plugged it into my wifes and it wanted to format it. Did the format as I was going to put new songs on and that was the end of that little gadget. Never worked again 
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Score one for Adata -why am I not surprised. You don't think those negative remarks on Newegg are an accident do you? I had two 2gb cards that died and never bought Adata again.
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dvdivx wrote:
Score one for Adata -why am I not surprised. You don't think those negative remarks on Newegg are an accident do you? I had two 2gb cards that died and never bought Adata again.
Never heard of Newegg but did a search on Google before buying and lotsa folks were happy them.
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gazmania wrote:
They suggest either a soft or hard format but don't tell you how to do either.(
I don't know how to do it either, but a quick Google search yielded the following tool: http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/s … atter.html
Give it a try; it might just do the trick. However, even if you are able to revive this card to the point where you can read and write data to it, if it is indeed a bogus card, do you really want to trust your data to it?
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Adata has very poor support. As you will find out. They are also out of Taiwan not China so it could even be a counterfeit Adata card although why someone would do that is beyond me. I limit myself to the following brands: Kingston, Crucial, Transcend and SanDisk. SanDisk being the best IMO but also the most expensive. Also NO ebay sellers. Check reseller ratings before ordering.
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I could have got a transcend at the same price. The guy I bought from has 10,000 positive ratings. With a few from folks who bought the same card. Hopefully I won't have to give him a negative rating
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notice!!!
EEExubuntu >> i dosen't support SD card driver ! i tryed ! nd is not working... this is the true problem...
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OK turns out the card was a dodgy fake bought from ebay. Bought an 8GB Sandisk Card now so we'll see how that goes 
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