Internal SD card not reading over USB - Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi guys,
I have had an Atrix since a few months, and everything has been working fine. However, since the last few days when I connect the phone to my computer over USB, the external 16 Gig SD card shows up as a drive, but when I click on the other drive which is supposed to be the internal SD card, it says "Please insert a disk into Removable Disk (D" in Windows.
Phone: Sim-unlocked AT&T Atrix, rooted, Gingerblur 4.5
Computer: Windows 7 (x64) with drivers installed
It has worked many many times in the past, and I haven't made any recent changes to the phone which are related to this in any way.
I have tried:
1. Changing USB connection mode between all 4 options, include USB Mass Storage
2. Restarting the computer
3. Restarting the phone
4. Switching on/off USB Debugging mode
5. Manually unmounting the "Settings" -> "SD card & phone storage settings" -> "Unmount internal phone storage"
6. Reinstalling the drivers - got it from here because the gitbrew link seems down
In fact I am able to view both /sdcard and /sdcard-ext using Root Explorer on the phone, so I don't think the internal memory is corrupt in anyway.
I've searched both xda and atrixforums, but not found a working answer to it.
Any suggestions? This is very frustrating.
Regards,
Varun

My phone has done this on occasion but a phone reboot fixed it.

Tried many reboots, but not working. Are there any filesystem integrity checks I could do via adb?

varunj said:
5. Manually unmounting the "Settings" -> "SD card & phone storage settings" -> "Unmount internal phone storage"
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This may seem a silly question, but you don't mention doing it. Did you mount the internal sdcard after you unmounted it? Did you unmount while connected to your computer or when not connected?
Were you accessing your internal sdcard with any apps, or did you have it open in root explorer for example when you connected it to your computer? This can mess up the umounting procedure when you plug into USB.
Have you tried on another computer?

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ch13ft41n said:
I can't because i don't have access to my SD memory card and ROM Manager requires SD card. If you know how to flash ROM without memory card plz explain it to me, i would me very grateful.
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What do you mean you don't have access to your sd card? Have you tried placing it in the card reader on your PC?
Yes, i have placed my SD card in USB card reader on PC and the card is working normally. But when I try to put my SD card in phone, phone won't read it and in Settings > Storage > under SD card tab it says that "Total space" and "Available space" are unavailable, "Mount sd card" is gray (I cannot click it) and "Erase SD card" is pressable but it doesn't do anything.
ch13ft41n said:
Yes, i have placed my SD card in USB card reader on PC and the card is working normally. But when I try to put my SD card in phone, phone won't read it and in Settings > Storage > under SD card tab it says that "Total space" and "Available space" are unavailable, "Mount sd card" is gray (I cannot click it) and "Erase SD card" is pressable but it doesn't do anything.
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Have you tried to make a ext partition before this SD unavailable to mount happens?
If yes, or if no,
Try to format your SD to fat 32 once again.
Accidentally sent from my Google Nexus S using XDA Premium
I have tried 3 times but nothing and when I put some other SD card it is the same ****.
It's working!!!!!!!!!!
"Fix SD
Press & hold vol down and power on the phone
Select fastboot by pressing the power button
Make sure in device manager the driver is installed(Win 7 x64 downloaded them automatically)
Open command prompt like you would to use ADB and type
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
fastboot reboot
That should fix your SD card not being detected."
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tryptic said:
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HowardZ said:
if you get access to the internal sd, then look in it for a folder called ext_sd which points to the removable sd card
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