Sentinel Software Bricked 2 Mini-SD's

[J_wilco_foxtrot]

Hello,
I having a unique issue. I downloaded the latest Sentinel software last week in order to get my SDS100 back online. I had to use the sd card in a pinch (had to load an OS onto a friends computer so I formatted it once and loaded an iso). But I had reformatted it back to fat32, plugged into the computer, showed up everything good. Went to Sentinel -> clear user data on freshly reformatted card and the process seemed to work, but after failing to load anything else on there, I checked in file manager and my 32g minisd was now unreadable. So I ejected it and put it back in, now the SD card is 30mb and effectively bricked. So, thinking it was a bad card, I tried with the other SD I had lying around, same issue. I have tried reformatting both on Windows and Linux, the cards are completely bricked. Now I have no sd's left and a non-functional $600 scanner, which needless to say is frustrating. Is anyone else having this issue? Was anyone able to save their sd's?

 

[LS101]

I have had the same problem with fash drives after installing os on them,would only read so many gbs when reformatting with Windows, I used AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard to reformat my flash drives and all was good

 

[kruser]

OP, Try using the official SD Format tool from here: SD Memory Card Formatter 5.0 for SD/SDHC/SDXC

Sentinel itself cannot ruin an SD card. Windows or something else may have set an odd partition on the card to make it bootable. That partition may not be affected by a format. Using FDISK commands may be the only way to bring it back but before you do that, try the official tool at the link I provided above.

 

[darkness975]

Sentinel did not do that. If you formatted the card to create a bootable ISO device that is where your issue lies.

 

[mikewazowski]

Try running Computer Management then look under Storage/Disk Management to see if the SD card is partitioned.