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Memory Card Corrupted!!

4 replies · 42,109 views · Started 14 August 2004

When i try to view files from the memory card, e.g. from the gallery, i get a message saying "memory card corrupted". This happened suddenly...i wasn't doing anything abnormal before this!

Tried switching the phone on and off a few times but same thing still happens!!

Looked in the help file of the phone and it says it's a corrupt file system. Should i format the card?? i'll lose all the data! :'(

i have the same problem. I used to have a 6600 and i converted the 7610 to take the larger cards. It worked ok to start with, but now all i get is card is corupt. So i could do with the same help as you !!

i went to nokia care centre, they tried to format my card using the computer and that didn't work too. i didn't have my warranty card during that time so i couldn't give the mmc to them to exchange.

i went again today with my warranty card, this time to a different branch. you know what? they told me there's no service for MMC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was so pissed. the service personnel keep telling me that it's unformattable, hence it's not under warranty. I keep telling her that precisely because they can't format it that's why it should be covered under warranty!!!!

anyway i have to go back to the first centre i went to try and see whether i can get a new MMC. -_-"'

I got the same problem.
Paid 5 pounds at the Nokia center, they said they fixed all the problems.
Got it back, switched it on and MEMORY CORRUPTED.
I also didn't do anything unsual.

I ordered a new 256 rs mmc from Ebuyer for 28 pounds.
No other choice, i just hope I don't get the same problem.

My E51, Nokia supplied 512MB memory card started acting up like yours after I downloaded and installed some free wares from Nokia site. I stored them in my memory card and installed the wares.

I think the card doesn't have enough speed and when an application looks for the exe file and exceeds certain limits, the blame goes to the card.

So a permanent solution would be to save the files in C drive.
I havent tried this though, bacause I didn't want to clutter the drive and bog down the phone's speed.

What I tried to a certain success was this. But you'd probably need a desk and somewhere quiet to do this; not while you're driving or parachuting...

1. Remove the card from menu. Click power button ONCE, click the BOTTOM OPTION (remove memory card),

2. Take off the cover and physically remove the card.

3. Click OK on the menu. (phone lets out a small "peep"

4. Reinsert the card (another peep) and replace the back cover.

4. You're back in business.

5. If not, step 4 would be "Turn off the phone with memory card still outside the chamber."

6. Turn the phone back on.

7. Insert the card (another "peep".

Same problem comes back at most unexpected times. So annoying, but I read this problem happens in other Nokia models too, though I'm sure they wouldn't let this kind of thing out their lab doors if they knew it'd happen.

So, is it because their choice of memory card's vendor? Or the demo wares launching spam from memory card and taking up processor resources? Speaking for myself, I wouldn't want to store important data on it.

Formatting the card never made the problem go away, as I read in this and other forums.

(This a similar post I sent to Nokia forum 5 mins ago.)