merlinextraligh

Go to download todays race, and the computer won't recognize the Garmin.

Worked this morning. Normally the Garmin shows up as Garmin/L and easy to open files in Cycling Peaks or upload to Trainright or other websites.

Tonight I get 2 devices , "Removable disc J" or "Removable discLl" Neither will open. Properties show 0 KB

I get messages I need to format drive L, which I don't want to do.

I've rebooted, unistalled the drives, downloaded drivers from Garmin.

WTF?

Smallguy

what message do you get when you try to open it ? is it the format message?

did you do any updates between the time it worked and stopped to either the garmin or the PC

have you tried a system restore assuming you have windows

Urthwhyte

Sounds like the fie system has corrupted itself. Have you tried doing a soft reset yet and then plugging it back into the PC?

luv2climb

How about the cable? Did you try a different cable or move to another USB port? Have you rebooted your PC?

Urthwhyte

I'd say with 90% certainty the first suggestion won't do anything, but the 2nd is worth a try, always possible that a USB port has up and died or the controlled has gone and borked itself

merlinextraligh

Rebooted several times. Installed and uninstalled the Garmin. Did two system restores moving further back in time.

None of that changed anything.

Now today, the computer is recognizing the Garmin fine, and I can open every other file, but I still can't open yesterday's file. Did another ride today and that file is fine.

I could upload yesterday's file to Trainright (the CTS coaching site) which uses training peaks. But only 45 minutes of an over 2 hour ride shows.

On the garmin itself the data all appears to be there.

At this point I'm thinking something in yesterday's file is corrupted preventing other programs from reading it.

Urthwhyte

merlin: If you can PM or email me the file, I can take a look at it and see if the TCX structure is borked somewhere along the line.

umd

Merlin, look in your history folder, is there a Laps file or folder?

merlinextraligh

There is a laps file for the ride. I've got average power. speed and time for each lap of the crit in the Garmin,

umd

You mean there is a Laps folder with files like Lapxx.dat? One of the lap files is likely corrupted and preventing the TCX file from being created. Try to copy all of the lap files to your hard drive and see if any complain. The one that complains is the problem and will need to be deleted. At that point the next time you plug it in it will construct the TCX. Also you may want to run the disk check tool on it to see if there is any file system corruption.

merlinextraligh

^ I guess I didn't understand your question. In History on the Garmin, the file shows data by laps (I was using the auto lap feature)

But when I look at it on the computer, the folder "Laps" is empty.

umd

I read back through the posts and realized I missed the part where you said you had a file but couldn't load it. You can read through the direction on my blog at https://www.photoscene.com/kimandstev...rmin-tcx-files to try to fix the file or send it to me (or the other guy, post #7)