TomTom SD card ejected! Error #2

Sven_G · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 23, 2006 Posts: 5

New problem.

Driving around with the second TTN 5 in a Treo 650.

As we're driving TTN asys the card has been ejected and it has been a no-go ever since, with the error message in the subject.

The Treo can see the card and says that it has 841.5 MB free, out of 1.8 GB.

I'm heading out of town in the AM and had planned to bring this TTN with me to find my way but I'm beginning to wonder about the reliability of the sofware.

Any ideas what could make the card suddenly unusable by TTN ?

Thanks,

-Sven

lbendlin · Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:23 am Post subject:

I don't think TomTom is to blame here. Rather your combination of strange card (1.8 GB?) and slow device (Treo). You may want to reformat the card to FAT16 file system (not FAT32)
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Sven_G · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 23, 2006 Posts: 5

Hi Lutz,

Sven_G · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 23, 2006 Posts: 5

I just got back from my first trip with the Palm/Treo 650 TomTom GPSlim 236 combination. It worked like a charm and was great to have on hand especially when rushing to return the rental car before my flight back.

The SD card that showed up as ejected just before the trip is another matter. It would not reformat in the Treo and it will not reformat or erase using the OSX disk utility via a USB interface.

Bummer; seems like a two day-old $80 2 GB SD card that has bitten the dust for no apparent reason :-(

-Sven

eillo7 · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 19, 2005 Posts: 199

Hmmm...

I've just had a similar experience - looks like one of the files in the Tomtom folder on the card has become corrupted, so when Tomtom tries to launch it cannot see the file it is looking for and therefore thinks there is no card inserted.

Fortunately for me I was able to re-format the card and reinstall everything from a backup (ALWAYS have a backup! ;) )

Maybe you weren't so lucky and the corruption on your card is irrecoverable?

Card sellers tend to be fairly understanding about such things - try getting an exchange.

TazUk · Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 1:49 pm Post subject:

jgombos · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 25, 2006 Posts: 87

I also received the missing SD card error noted in the subject. I reformatted the SD card, and reinstalled TomTom using TT Home, and the problem evaporated.

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