Memory card degradation - FIXED

[Iszuka™ 10]

So quite a while back i bought a PSP and a 16GB ProDuo memory card to play PSx games on the go.

Things ran their course and it was a good investment. After a while my PSP was put on a shelf and hasn't been used for maybe a couple of years.

As you do with older games, i got the urge to get thing back out the box again to play a little.

My problem is the 16GB memory card is now only showing 3.01GB of storage capacity.

I kept the card in the PSP the whole time, the PSP was switched off.

I've googled around and i can't see anyone else with a similar problem.

So questions:

What the hell happened? Why? Is there a way to reverse it?

EDIT:-

Oh damn, i thought i'd see what happened when i tried to format it. FAT32 shows 3GB Max, but NTFS shows 15GB.

EDIT:-

Huh, the format process hung and now i can't see the capacity of the card any more :\

EDIT:-

Trawling the internet i've found a couple of free programs that detect everything i want it to. They see that it's a Sony ProDuo 16GB card and it has like 31211 sectors or something.

So this might be recoverable.

EDIT SOLUTION:-

Okay so i determined the header of the drive was corrupt. I used a drive killer program to erase a little of the drive at the start of it. (One pass zero method)

Then i formatted like normal.

[Shadow 0]

yet another thread in which you fix the problem before anyone posts. Good job.

[xGiiZMO 0]

Good Job :)

[Fluxy 1,660]

y u heff to be mad?

[Guest]

^That.

[Tiny 16]

It Only Game (:

[Raze 0]

i get angry at games

[mitch 457]

i get angry at games

your rage is fucking hilarious

[Jamie 2,319]

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