CF card possibly corrupt?

[BBalla4life]

i bought a 512 CF card from ebay. it worked very well until recently. recently it started having corruption errors. so i formatted the card and tried to reinstall applications, etc. but the same thing began to happen. i.e. when i am converting a movie it will stop halfway and display an error. after that the drive completely disappears. other times i will not even be able to save to the cf at all! i am confused has anyone had a similar problem?

[HiitsMe]

It's probably either your CF card or your hardware on your handheld (hopefully not the second). Get a cheap CF card (Ebay?) and try it out to see if it works.

[BBalla4life]

well i formatted the disk again but this time i formatted it on the pda. it works a lot better now. i don't know if this will last but at least it works pretty well for now except for one thing, in my photo viewer program (resco photo viewer) the photo viewer thumbnail shows a different pic than what the actual pic is. when u click on the thumbnail however it shows the right pic. weird... i will post n e future problems.

[Tam Hanna]

The thumbnail story is related to Rescos internal Cache IMHO.. It doesnt regenerate the thumbnails each time you open the folder...
I currnetly experience something similar with my SD card right now when using it via Softick PPP: Folders that I create on the PC are visible to the PC, but the Palm cannot see them. This happens every now and then when I am adding a folder via softick!

[Gabes Dad]

Be careful about where you format the card. I had a CF card that kept getting more and more corrupt sectors until it was unuseable. I use winXP at work, which supposedly formats differently than win2000 I have at home, and both are probably different than the way the clie formats things. I eventually just had Viking replace my card for shipping costs. Your safest bet is just NOT to format things with XP as it has caused similar problems with a usb jump drive.

However, about a half-day after I sent it back I found that you can find some programs that do secure erasing (e.g. writing sectors 8 times over with zeros, etc.) that will work to reformat and recover bad sectors - but I have not tried this myself. I think one program I found was MediaWiper or something like that.

Hope this helps.

[BBalla4life]

Yea i tried that media wipper program. it revealed that the CF card had a few bad sectors, but i'm not sure how it got them so fast. it is a relatively new CF. i bought it off of Ebay it is a Dan-Elec 512 mb CF card. maybe b/c i write and erase frequently to the CF. movies, mp3's, photos, etc. i don't have a warranty as a result i cannot even get it replaced.