un-corrupt a microsd card?

Joachim Breitner nomeata at debian.org
Sat Oct 18 11:12:37 CEST 2008


Hi,

Am Samstag, den 18.10.2008, 13:30 +1300 schrieb Robin Paulson:
> for the third time in the past two weeks, my freerunner has corrupted
> my microsd card.
> 
> is there anyway of recovering it?
> 
> i gather from other posts it's a problem with the partition table,
> rather than the actual data
> 
> i don't really want to reinstall debian, all the software, and copy
> across 5GB of music; they're not the quickest of tasks
> 
> what software is recommended? and is it best to do on the freerunner,
> or elsewhere, in a card reader?

If it’s just the partition table, and you have used the debian installer
script to partition, you can run the partition stage again.
(./installer.sh partition). This will leave your data intact and makes
it accessible again.

Greetings,
Joachim


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