SD Memory Card tester?

[John Latter]

Hi,

I've just bought an El Cheapo Memory Card and was wondering if there
was any way I could test all the memory locations via a card reader -
er, the one I've got is an El Cheapo one too - only the camera itself
is a good one!

Regards,

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John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

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[MJD]

The card readers I've got treat the card as a hard drive, so all you need to
do is scandisk the appropriate drive letter.

Hi,

I've just bought an El Cheapo Memory Card and was wondering if there
was any way I could test all the memory locations via a card reader -
er, the one I've got is an El Cheapo one too - only the camera itself
is a good one!

Regards,

--

John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to

homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.

 

[John Latter]

The card readers I've got treat the card as a hard drive, so all you need to
do is scandisk the appropriate drive letter.

er, it took me a while to find scandisk under disk fragmenter but here
are the results:

Volume (F
Volume size = 122 MB
Cluster size = 16 KB
Used space = 16 KB
Free space = 122 MB
Percent free space = 99 %

Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 0 %
File fragmentation = 0 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %

File fragmentation
Total files = 0
Average file size = 0 bytes
Total fragmented files = 0
Total excess fragments = 0
Average fragments per file = 0.00

Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 0 bytes
Total fragments = 0

Folder fragmentation
Total folders = 1
Fragmented folders = 1
Excess folder fragments = 0

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fragments File Size Most fragmented files
None

And here are my questions

Does Scandisk check the free space locations?

The card is 128MB - is it normal to only have 122MB available?

I deleted all the pics while the card was in the camera - is the
fragmented folders entry a function of formatting or something?

Hope you can help!

--

John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech

 

[Bob Adkins]

er, it took me a while to find scandisk under disk fragmenter but here
are the results:

Volume (F
Volume size = 122 MB
Cluster size = 16 KB
Used space = 16 KB
Free space = 122 MB
Percent free space = 99 %

Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 0 %
File fragmentation = 0 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %

File fragmentation
Total files = 0
Average file size = 0 bytes
Total fragmented files = 0
Total excess fragments = 0
Average fragments per file = 0.00

Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 0 bytes
Total fragments = 0

Folder fragmentation
Total folders = 1
Fragmented folders = 1
Excess folder fragments = 0

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fragments File Size Most fragmented files
None

And here are my questions

Does Scandisk check the free space locations?

The card is 128MB - is it normal to only have 122MB available?

I deleted all the pics while the card was in the camera - is the
fragmented folders entry a function of formatting or something?

Hope you can help!

Looks good!

Bob

 

[John Latter]

Looks good!

Bob

Thanks Bob!

--

John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech