VanillaCoffee
Active Member
So I have a 16GB CF Card suspected of being faulty because I've always had issues with it.
The problems began with I formatted and partitioned the CF Card in G-Parted to where I kept getting errors and the tasks would never complete, all other CF Cards I have work just fine so I know it has nothing to do with the card reader.
I was also unable to format the drive in Windows nor in Linux so I was stuck with a card I couldn't use. I then decided to test it out in my retro WIN98 PC and see if I could wipe it that way and install MS-DOS to it via an IDE to CF adapter just for testing purposes which worked however I could only use 2GB in FAT16 because for some reason I couldn't get the WIN98 CD to format it using fdisk to FAT32 but I could not rule the CF Card being at fault at the time as it could have been a number of issues why it didn't work but I was able to format it in DOS "FAT16" just fine using MS-DOS 6.22 floppy disks.
My next test was using Ventoy... Ventoy has been a good tool for me where I've had success wiping corrupted storage devices that wouldn't otherwise format using other methods. I fired up Ventoy and installed it to the CF Card and everything went well so I ran another test on a Windows machine using the CMD command window and the CF Card came back as tested OK although the test was very fast so I'm not sure if it was an effective test or whether the test checked the entire CF Card. I then formatted the CF Card in Windows and everything went fine. I then assumed the CF Card must be fine until I got an error today when transferring some files to the CF Card.
The CF card is formatted in exFAT this time. It seems that if I copy files and use up more than 3GB on the CF Card its fine but going past that and I get errors while copying to the CF Card but if I click on re-try they continue to copy fine but I end up with some files not copied properly so there has to be something up with the CF Card.
I need to carry out a thorough test on this CF Card before deciding what to do with it but I have no idea what software will do that.
Any recommendations?
The problems began with I formatted and partitioned the CF Card in G-Parted to where I kept getting errors and the tasks would never complete, all other CF Cards I have work just fine so I know it has nothing to do with the card reader.
I was also unable to format the drive in Windows nor in Linux so I was stuck with a card I couldn't use. I then decided to test it out in my retro WIN98 PC and see if I could wipe it that way and install MS-DOS to it via an IDE to CF adapter just for testing purposes which worked however I could only use 2GB in FAT16 because for some reason I couldn't get the WIN98 CD to format it using fdisk to FAT32 but I could not rule the CF Card being at fault at the time as it could have been a number of issues why it didn't work but I was able to format it in DOS "FAT16" just fine using MS-DOS 6.22 floppy disks.
My next test was using Ventoy... Ventoy has been a good tool for me where I've had success wiping corrupted storage devices that wouldn't otherwise format using other methods. I fired up Ventoy and installed it to the CF Card and everything went well so I ran another test on a Windows machine using the CMD command window and the CF Card came back as tested OK although the test was very fast so I'm not sure if it was an effective test or whether the test checked the entire CF Card. I then formatted the CF Card in Windows and everything went fine. I then assumed the CF Card must be fine until I got an error today when transferring some files to the CF Card.
The CF card is formatted in exFAT this time. It seems that if I copy files and use up more than 3GB on the CF Card its fine but going past that and I get errors while copying to the CF Card but if I click on re-try they continue to copy fine but I end up with some files not copied properly so there has to be something up with the CF Card.
I need to carry out a thorough test on this CF Card before deciding what to do with it but I have no idea what software will do that.
Any recommendations?