Possible fix for broken memory stick

**Qmark** · August 25th, 2007, 03:29

This may have come up before, sorry if it has.

I broke a 256MB MSPD a couple of hours ago by messing around with FDISK. The stick showed all symptoms of being completely ****ed, namely the flashing MS light and the "no memory stick is inserted" message.

Here is how I fixed it:
I booted the PSP into (3.52M33-2) recovery, inserted an MS that wasn't ruined, and enabled USB. When Windows recognized the drive, I swapped the stick for the one I messed up, and formatted normally.

Here are concerns:
* The 'good' stick and the 'bad' were the same size. This might be important.
* The 'bad' stick had the primary DOS partition removed via FDISK. Sticks ruined by other means may not be recoverable.
* both sticks were real Sony sticks, not freaky Chinese knockoffs.

**xg917** · August 25th, 2007, 03:32

cool. dammit i wish i didnt throw away that broken 2gb sony high speed mspd

**Qmark** · August 25th, 2007, 03:38

For some reason, recovery mode doesn't appear to notice or care when the stick is swapped out, or it doesn't notice or care that the stick is "ruined" - I can't tell which.

XMB refused to belive the stick existed at all, other than to blink the MS light.