Mon Sep 14, 2015 8:34 pm
I am hoping someone can help me. Last night I wiped the internal memory of my Montana - I didn't realise it was still connected via USB to my PC and I started to transfer a Raspberry Pi image to an SDHC card when I suddenly realised it was writing on the GPS unit! Disaster. I have only been able to recover a few files and have been unable to recover the partition.
I have a few questions/requests
1. What is the original formatting of the internal memory - FAT16, FAT32
2. Is the internal memory contiguous or split and what is the best way to reformat it?
3. Could anyone supply me with a a copy of the files or perhaps an image of the partition? I'm sure I made a backup originally but it appears to have gone AWOL - perhaps with all the Win10 upgrades I've been doing. I don't want/need any maps which could bring up licensing issues - I have those all backed up but I do need all the "operating system" support files etc.
I'd be most grateful for any help with this - the Montana was connected to my PC getting it ready for a trip to Germany in two weeks.
With thanks in advance.
Thu Sep 17, 2015 12:53 pm
If any other lost soul finds their way here because they have the same problem, then the answer is to be found here:
h**p://garminmontanagpsr.wikispaces.com/share/view/74493303
It works a treat and any files which are not automatically reinstated after reboot can be downloaded using webupdater etc, googling around and asking a few nice folks.
Lessons learned? Always make a backup of the Garmin Internal memory (Do It NOW) and try to avoid parallel processing of SDHC stuff whilst working with GPS attached to PC