Topic: Can SD cards get corrupted?

I have the SD cards that actually say "Wii" on them, but I have had problems with my Wii, and I put the SD cards in my computer to delete my games so I could download them again. Can a computer corrupt an SD card?

Nope. If you want to start from scratch, just delete everything on the SD card. Or simply reformat it.

You can get corrupted data.
Oh, I think I understand what you mean. There is no difference between an SD card with Wii on it and one without it other than possible speed differences.

But if all I do is delete the sd card on the computer, then I should be fine, correct?

You should be fine. But it can happen. Thats all weez sayin'

Just so you know, of all the available media used for data storage, flash cards are probably the most prone to data loss. Therefore, chances are that eventually something stored on your Wii (be it internal or on a flash card) will become corrupted. With downloaded software this is no biggie as you can just re-download it. If it is a saved game, you'll be SOL. It'd be nice if, in a future version of the Wii, storage was done either via HD or even cloud storage.

The only time you're really risking the data is on a write operation though. Unless you're constantly writing to the card (in this case that would be copying/moving game/save data) I really wouldn't worry about it.

I'd seen plenty of SD cards in cameras become corrupted. Nothing a simple card format can refresh (the data's gone though).

Copy your Wii System memory (Channels and Save Data) to an SD card, and the make a disk image of the SD card on your home computer as a backup. If your Wii System Memory and/or SD card ever get wonky, simply restore the disk image back to a blank SD card and copy over the stuff you need back to the Wii.

a question. how can i transport my games that are stored in a sd card in other sd card
thanks.

You could try copying them using your PC (the Wii seems to use a normal FAT filesystem on SD), though you won't be able to use them on a different Wii. You could also upload them from SD to Wii and then put in a new SD card to copy them back -- that's what I've done in the past to ensure the filesystem is created on the SD card properly -- my Mac doesn't do FAT!

Ugh, the Wii almost seems determined to corrupt SD cards. So far my Wii has corrupted three SD cards and after re-formatting them, in two cases their performance was noticeably degraded when accessing the SD channel.

The Wii will lock up completely if you access a corrupted game's channel data in the SD channel by the way) and on several occasions my Wii has failed to start with an SD card in the slot.

If it weren't for the fact that the Wii has bugger all internal storage I'd say avoid using SD cards altogether. You can't back up half your saves onto them, you can't guarantee the Wii won't screw up the filing system after you've downloaded and transfered your VC/WiiWare collection onto them and they are soooo bloody slow (even the fastest cards)

My suggestion: Just don't format your Wii's internal storage unless you really need to and just try a cope with the lesser of two evils by using that rather than Nintendo's wonky SD support.

Your Wii perhaps. I've had the same SD card in there for 3 years. I have been copying data to and from for that entire time. My SD card is housing shed loads of games, a load of photos, a load of MP3's, and it's fine, always has been.

Don't listen to the twisted one, he really doesn't like Nintendo.

I had one SD card stop allowing writes to it, but I was also rewriting to it regularly using my computer and it was a no-name card brand, which I suspect is the real problem.

The cards I have now are SanDisk, which is one of, if not the, biggest manufacturers of SD cards (I'm not sure, but I think they even had a hand in developing them). My cards stay in my Wiis and I've never had a problem. All my games stay on SD and none have taken more than 20 seconds to do the initial load.

oh that way,i have really tough job to do, thank you very much.

Yeah, I shudder to think about upgrading the 2GB card on my Japanese Wii!

2Wii !?! i suppose this your work,

I don't think so. you need to reformat it so the data is gone unfortunately

can wii take 8gb sd cards now.

Also, the brand of the SD card may also affect how effective it is. Don't buy the "Wii" ones because they are overpriced and not that much different. A simple 2-8 GB SanDisk SD card should last you a while

Not really sure, but I have a bunch of games with data on my 2 GB and they haven't filled up half of the card yet. I have 7 NES, 10 SNES, 7 N64, and 12 Wiiware games on my card