SD Memory Card tester?

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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.
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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.

John Latter said:
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
Click to expand...
homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
 
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.
Click to expand...

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
 
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!
Click to expand...

Looks good!

Bob
 
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