Detecting faulty SD Card

[SEDGE]

Hi

I have an iPAQ hx2490 running WM 5.0 with a faulty SD Card. The problem is
that windows doesn't seem to know it is faulty.

In a .NET CF (2.0 or 3.5) I can create an SQL DB, move and copy files etc,
Close my program and open it again and all the files are in tact. File
Explorer and ActiveSync can see the SD Card but can't see the files I create
on it.

If I soft boot the device, all the files are gone.

The faulty SD card isn't the problem, but you can imagine how my customer
related to us after doing a stocktake and losing all the data!

My guess is that Windows Mobile has cached the data and failed to write it
to the card. Does anyone have any idea how I could detect that Windows hasn't
actually committed the data to the media.

Thanks
Steve

 

[chrkon]

Hello Steve,

I had a similar problem. My fault was, that I had a normal folder which was
named like the SD card folder.

In my device the SD card gets normaly the path "\SD". Unfortunatedly I had
created a folder with the Name SD before I inserted the SD Card. In this case
the SD card receives a different name from the operating System!

Please check this.

Kind regards,

Christof