Root Apparently my SD card is fried?

[odock]

So i decided to plunge into rooting the other day after studying it for about a month and well everything went perfect and ive been VERY happy with the performance of my phone... but today while i was preparing to flash the new frg22d rom i decided i better back up what i had been doing and adjusting on my phone over the past couple of days and when it rebooted all of a sudden my SD card is apparently "damaged" and it says i have to remormat it which i have absolutely NO interest in doing there is way too much stuff on there. anybody have any ideas? currently im restoring my original system to see if it will work by manually going into clockwork by holding X on boot we shall see if it works then ill post on here if it does.

 

[Lock-N-Load]

have you tried to mount the phone to your computer and see if the card will mount via the built in USB mounting option?

 

[odock]

Yes sir i have and it wouldnt do it if what im doing now dont work im gonna put the SD card into an adapter and try to plug it directly into my cpu and try to back it up real quick...

 

[Lock-N-Load]

Yes sir i have and it wouldnt do it if what im doing now dont work im gonna put the SD card into an adapter and try to plug it directly into my cpu and try to back it up real quick...

this was my next step.

IF you cannot do this, then I would say you have a toasted SD card which I hope is not the case

I, weekly, backup my SD card to my computer and then just make incremental additions when I make significant changes. Plus I have ROM backups and Titanium backups, blah blah

 

[odock]

I currently have it plugged into the computer and it is copying as much as possible i believe it is fried though... Thanks for your help im sure im gonna have to reformat/buy a new one which kinda blows...

 

[Lock-N-Load]

how can it be "fried" if your getting data off it?

anyway, it can take a while as it is only USB 2.0 and not the fastest class card so depending on how much data you have, it can take some serious time.

 

[odock]

Ugh update while trying to copy paste it was trying to find the files that i can see there with my own eyes and apparently it cant find them to copy them..

 

[Lock-N-Load]

do you have a clone app to try to clone the card to your computer rather than a more manual carry over card contents to the computer?

 

[odock]

no i dont... recomendations?

 

[Lock-N-Load]

I only use a mac so CCC - carbon copy cloner

 

[The_Chief]

I had to thank you, Lock, because I religiously back up my phone but had YET to copy my SD card to the PC. Doing that 2+ hour task right now

 

[Lock-N-Load]

yep, 2 hours for me the first time. so slooooow

BUT, once you do it, just set a reminder or something so that weekly you mount your SD card and copy any key stuff off the SD card you added or updated since the last backup and put it on your local computer right into the same directories.

this does several things:

1. gives you endless backup of your SD card AND all ROMs and backups files you have on it in various stages to go back and grab something from IF needed

2. allows you to free up SD card space. So in my case, I have like 12 clockwordmod and nandroid backups. I copy the newest over from my SD card to my computer and then delete the last few older ones off my SD card. So, I still have them IF needed, but not taking space on the card and I leave like 2 or 3 on the card at most to go back to. I do this for kernels and Titanium backup files, etc.

piece of mind along with the ROM backups and such

 

[odock]

so reformatted SD card and it is now working poperly... lost a lot of shicrap but ill make do thanks for the help from now on backing up SD card everychance i get.