Can't format 2x Kingston SD Cards

[AB_IT]

Hey All

 

I've tried every trick in the book but everytime I try to format these SD Cards Windows keeps giving an error message saying it's failed. I've used Disk Manager, tried to format them to NTFS, used EaseUS formatter and the SDCard Formatter applications.

 

I can read what's on the SD Cards and it comes up fine, I've also ran a chkdsk on them and tried diskpart but to no avail. Chkdsk says it's fine. I can write new things to it but as soon as I try to delete stuff manually it says it's deleted and then when you refresh it all comes back again.

 

Both SD Cards are the same, they where in my cars dash cam.

 

Any help would be most appreciated

[Jawloms]

Have you tried a "clean" in diskpart?

 

Stuart

[AB_IT]

Have you tried a "clean" in diskpart?

 

Yeah, sorry. Tried the clean function.

[LeMarchand]

I had a similar thing with some Sandisk cards, and apparently they have some clever stuff that prevents any sort of write operation after it thinks that the card has reached its reliability threshold; so you can get your data off, but not do anything else. Maybe Kingston do, too.

 

I'm gonna keep an eye on this thread in case there's a way to make them work again. In addition to the above I also tried TestDisk.

[mavhc]

try https://www.grc.com/initdisk.htm

[AB_IT]

try https://www.grc.com/initdisk.htm

Just tried, seemed to do something and then when I opened the drive everything is still in there.. Like seriously!!

[LeMarchand]

Just tried, seemed to do something and then when I opened the drive everything is still in there.. Like seriously!!

 

Exactly what I got - loads of programs/methods completed and looked like they'd worked, but the damn files were still there, taunting me.

[aicrd]

I use HDD Low Level format tool for stubborn USB sticks with weird partitions. You shouldn't need to do a full low level format, just perform a quick wipe which removes the partitions.

 

https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/

[mavhc]

Sounds like it's set to read only then, you haven't moved the read/write switch on the side have you?

[Passat1983ICTech]

hi there what carder reader are you using a USB one or inbuilt to a PC or laptop my did the same to me

[AB_IT]

I use HDD Low Level format tool for stubborn USB sticks with weird partitions. You shouldn't need to do a full low level format, just perform a quick wipe which removes the partitions.

https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/

Just tried, no luck again!

 

Sounds like it's set to read only then, you haven't moved the read/write switch on the side have you?

It's a MicroSD card so it doesn't have anything like that.

 

hi there what carder reader are you using a USB one or inbuilt to a PC or laptop my did the same to me

Believe it or not I've tried both and a different computer. It's so frustrating lol!

[Passat1983ICTech]

can you format the card in the dash cam and see what that dose then go from there only way i can think of doing it

[AB_IT]

can you format the card in the dash cam and see what that dose then go from there only way i can think of doing it

No format option on my dash cam it's just a cheapo one, worked for 4 years fine though just recently. The weird thing is I can write to both SD Cards fine.

[Chris_Cook]

Is it possible its counterfeit?

 

Can you test it with h2testw?

 

https://h2testw.en.lo4d.com/windows#:~:text=H2testw%20is%20a%20free%20tool,not%20the%20actual%20claimed%20size.

[AB_IT]

Is it possible its counterfeit?

Can you test it with h2testw?

https://h2testw.en.lo4d.com/windows#:~:text=H2testw%20is%20a%20free%20tool,not%20the%20actual%20claimed%20size.

 

Definetley not a counterfeit, purchased from PC World a while back.

[AB_IT]

I've just ordered another, will chuck these two. Seems there's no saving them