Afternoon all, Anyone know about recovering data from a corrupt SD Card? Been away camping for the weekend, and aside from the finest picture ever taken of the Thatchers hot air balloon flying over an actual can of thatchers, are some photos of an awning that I actually need. Looked at them in my DSLR when I got in and all good. Plugged the SD Card into my ipad using an Apple reader and nothing. Into laptop; nothing. Back into camera; nothing apart from a message saying “card can’t be accessed”. Is there any way of recovering the data? Cheers
I don't know but mine used to do the same, I'm sure the card reader on my lappy was scrambling it. Card would work again when re-whatsited, but photos I never recovered. I learned to transfer photos with a cable. I would have liked to see the Thatchers photo.
There's loads of software around. I guess it depends on if the card is FUBAR or if the data has become corrupt. I found this one online, it looks like a paid for application but they do a free trial to see if its going to work. Other than that try to find a data recovery specialist if it's uber important. https://www.cardrecovery.com/?rid=g...hV3KSLOYidRlhWKNBO_NHDDp2HoRPt7RoC6YoQAvD_BwE
If your laptop has a file system checker, see if it’ll run on the SD card as an external volume. Might be able to repair the file system (if that’s the problem).
I've had quite a few SD cards die. Usually they just go read-only, meaning you can get the data off but that's all. It's unusual that they fail and are still writeable. The first port of call in this case would be something that can check and correct the filesystem (If the card is writeable). I guess you are on a windows PC and do not have access to something with more sophisticated built-in tools like a mac or linux system? If you are on a windows machine, I personally would get a linux live CD image and boot that, there will be tools that can repair most damage to FAT or NTFS filesystems. Also it would allow you to take an image backup of the card (even though its corrupted) so you have some data to work with later if the card physically dies. I understand if this might be a bit above your understanding. In that case I would probably try the tool @paneuropaul linked. If you have got access to a linux machine or a mac, then at least open a command line and take an image backup if possible. I can help you do that on skype or whatsapp if necessary.
Boooooosh! Cheers Gents. Used Windows Disk Manager to find it, and pull the files I wanted, and ran a repair. It said “your disk has been successfully repaired” but it hasn’t been. Got the photos though so that’s all I’m bothered about. Stand by for thatchers photo!