Help! Something Went Horribly Wrong With My PSP 2000

Ok so my cousin gave me his PSP 2000 cause he got a new one and its on 5.50 GEN D-3 and like i was playing this gba game on the emulator and when i exited the emulator all the games werent there. all files were gone but it still had 1 gb free from the 8 gb mem card. When i connected it to the comp all the folders were gone and a bunch of weird ones appeared with gba shit. what happened? can someone help me? :|
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Any help and info would do. I feel so upset and sad. did i accidentally brick it or something? :( :|

that sounds like something a virus would do...but i don't think it's possible for a PSP to get a virus...

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it is my freind got one that set porn as his background

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now that's the first time i've head of something by SONY having an EPIC FAIL...

You two aren't helping...It's probably just a glitch. :P
It probably deleted all of your junk on the memcard. You can try a memory recovery program, but I don't know if that would work or not. Give it a whirl.

Do what ace suggested first.It sounds like the memory card may have corrupted itself. If anything, at least reapplying custom firmware isn't too terribly difficult.

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I don't think they need to reflash it. Just a little problem with the memcard most likely.

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Memory cards do enjoy having their fair share of issues. My little 2gb MicroSD has only needed a single format at least though.

its flash memory, it wears out eventually.

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by that do you mean it will eventually go back to the way it was?and regarding the memory recovery program can you suggest any or do i just goggle it?

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You may try TestDisk. I hear it's pretty good. Saved someone's data that I know.
And I think what he means is that flash memory doesn't last as long as a traditional HDD. It wears out eventually rendering the device with frequent data loss or something like that...

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AHHH Ok. So I'm using TestDisk as we speak and hopefully it recovers my files.
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Ok so i'm becoming super impatient and so far the files that were recovered seem to be just a lot of wav files usless pics and a single iso. So i was thinking on just refromatting the card. i mean i didnt really like any of the games that were on it, just a bunch of sports games and all and i have my own set of games and stuff. Do you think it would be ok? if so how do i go about reformatting the card and getting all those folders back iso, video, music etc....
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I just rechecked my psp's memory card and there is a new folder called found and they are filled with CHK files. What do i do?