Help with format old sd card for new setup

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I have now already 2 sd cards and i want to install nextcloud again but i can not format the cards any more.
There is nextcloud on it but i want to format them because these clouds versions crash after i run them.
When i try to format with ubuntu 16 on the pi3 i get:

ERROR formatting disk
error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (udisks-error-quark,0)

This is my second sd card all is block is have try on my pc but wont work either

How can i get these cards running again? I mean to make them clean

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Did you try to google it? For example this is one possible solution to use Gparted instead:

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Yoo thanks m8 for the quick information and link.

I will try it and hope it works ill let you know

Gerrit

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Nope nothing works :cry:
I have install ubuntu on a pc to try the program but nothing change.
If i unmount, if i format no errors but when i put the card in the pi3 the program is still there
Put the card back in ubuntu gparted nothing is change

It’s unbelievable

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Try to erase SD manually. E.g. if you SD card is sdc:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc

Otherwise it could be that SD card is somehow in read-only mode or brocken.

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Both cards are so far as i can see in read only mode because with windows when i try to format it say card is protected put protection mode off
But i can not get it off

They can not be broken nextcloud startup on both cards

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Did you try something like this under Windows?

  • Connect ’ Read Only ’ storage device such as SD card, USB, external hard drive etc with PC;
  • Open Command Prompt by typing: command in Search tab, right-click Command Prompt run as administrator.
  • Type: diskpart and hit Enter;
  • Type: list disk and hit Enter;
  • Type: select disk 0 and hit Enter; ( 0 shall be the drive letter of your read-only hard drive/USB/SD card etc.)
  • Type: attributes disk clear readonly and hit Enter;
  • Type: exit and hit Enter to finish the process.

Or this:
https://www.disk-partition.com/articles/how-to-change-read-only-memory-card-to-normal-0310.html

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Sorry for the late reaction but its a little bit hot to sit behind the pc
But i have tried all you tips and I’m sorry to say noting works :cry:

So i have throw it in the garbage and gonna use new ones.
But for me it is not right that i use it after some time and then
it broke the sd card or make it read only even a expensive one from samsung and a sandisk.

But i want to thank you for you’re time for me and give me a lot of explanations to try and repair these cards.
see you around and till the next-cloud-time

Gerrit

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I hope you checked the switch first:
https://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1102/~/sd%2Fsdhc%2Fsdxc-memory-card-is-write-protected-or-locked

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As far i know the Pi3 has a micro-sd slot and the micro card has no manual lock
And yes my adapters are unlock but i have micro-sd readers so no adapter needed

But thank you for the tip

Gerrit

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I have had similar experiences with microSD cards on the Raspberry PI, although with other applications (web server). What I generally see is that after a couple of weeks the system can’t access the hard disk, in casu the microSD card. Ping etc work because that software is cached in RAM, but I can’t log into the system.
A fiend much clever that me on this matter has explained that it probably is the meta information on the card itself that has been clobbered beyond repair.
My solution - which I have to recommend to you - is to discard the SD card in question and get a new one:-(
Bent

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Exact the same problem here
After some time the cart wont work 100%
Yes i did buy a new card but thls is the third cart
Let see how long this one work
Btw i have a ssd with usb adapter as external harddrive 128gb
Gerrit

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How about to have a look on log2ram to decrease amount of writes on SD. Also this would be helpful [SOLVED] Log2ram full because logs too big.
Set MariaDB parameters to make writes each e.g. 30 Seconds or similar. But this will not really help, only give a bit more time… Drive DB based apps on SD cards is per definition is not good idea.