Corrupted SD Card

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Help!

I have an SD card full of pub quizzes that I run, this contains the last 2 years worth - and while this may seem trivial stuff, I would really like to have it back.

I was using the SD card in the slot in my laptop and saved some files to it. All saved fine, no problems.

I then rebooted my laptop with the card still in. Upon reboot, Windows failed to detect the drive, moreover it said the drive needed to be formatted before use.

I took the card out and tried it in another Windows machine, same error. Ubuntu also fails to read it.

I have NOT formatted it.

I have tried Recuva, but seeing as there is no drive, there is nothing it can see to recover.

What other options are open to me at this stage?

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Any help here?

[ReDFoX2200]

did you try googling "memory card data recovery" there is a lots of software for such problems (but honestly I never tried them)

http://www.p-dd.mobi/

http://www.datadoctor.in/data-recovery-sof...y-software.html

let me know how things go

Edit: can you check the card for any thing that looks up-normal maybe it got broken or something

Edited November 24, 2009 by redfox2200

[DDStriker]

what is the size of the sd card

how large where the files you saved to?

how much free space was there before and after you made the save?

to save some time on waiting for my reply

if you just went beyond 50% of the size of your sd card and it has failed there is a good chance you're using a counterfeit chip where it pretends to be twice as big as its true size

so when you start writing to the second half its really just the first half effectively corrupting your device best bet it to stop writing to it and try to recover whatever you can

thats assuming its counterfeit

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

It's a legit card, 2 gig and I had about 200meg on there.

As for recovery software, there seems to be nothing suitable - they want to recover files from a drive - but the state of this card, it's an unreadable drive.

[StrikedOut]

Hi.

I have managed to recover pictures from an SD card using Recover My Files from www.recovermyfiles.com. You can download a free trial which will do the scan and show you what it can recover. If you see what you need then you need to pay for it to save the files to another location. Has also worked on formatted drives too.

J.

[John.D]

This will detect it. But its not free. I used it once, on an SD card (that had photos on it), that windows didnt see either. And managed to get the photos off it, then I formatted it