How to repair and corrupted/crashed sd card or memory card?.

There are several reasons for which an SD memory card can turn damaged or corrupted. Some of them are below:

• Physical damage to the SD card
• Corrupt SD card file system
• Removing the micro SD card from a device during file transferring
• Using the same memory card on multiple devices
• Improper ejection of the SD memory card
• Due to virus Installations

Whether it is your camera or smartphone, there are situations which may corrupt the SD card and result in data loss. To preventing it, ensure that you have taken backup all the data stored on the memory SD card so that you can quickly restore deleted SD card files from the backup.

To repair/format corrupted SD card follow the steps given below:

1. Turn off your device (camera or smartphone)
2. Remove the SD card
3. Insert the SD card again into your device (camera or smartphone.)

If this works, then backup all the data stored on the micro SD card and then format it.

How to Fix Damaged SD Card and Recover Data from SD Card?

If the memory card is still unreadable, then know how to fix damaged SD card:

1: Connect the SD card to your computer

Connect the affected micro SD card to your computer and check whether the problem persists or not. Sometimes there are compatibility issues that may prevent the device to recognize the SD card. You can connect the SD card to your computer through a card reader. Also, you can join the corrupted SD card to another camera/ smartphone to check the issue.

2: Repair corrupt SD card using Command Prompt

• Connect the corrupted SD card to your computer
• go to “My Computer/This PC.”
• under the “Devices and drives” section, locate the SD card and note its drive letter.
• Now run Command Prompt and type “chkdsk h: /r”, where “h” is the drive’s letter.
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The chkdsk command scans the damaged SD card and checks for the issues and repairs the corrupt micro SD card. After the completion of the scanning process, connect the memory card to see if the “SD card is damaged”. Try reformatting it” issue has been resolved or not.

3: Assign a new drive letter

• Open Disk Management
• Look for the SD card
• Right-click on the SD card
• Select “Change Drive Letter and Paths”
• After applying the changes, restart your system and connect the SD card again

4: Disable the SD card

• After connecting the corrupt memory card to your computer
• Go to “Device Manager”
• Right-click on the SD card and select “Disable.”
• Wait for a few minutes and then click “Enable.”
• For the changes to take effect, you may have to restart your computer
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5: Use a data recovery software for SD Card Recovery

To efficiently recover files from an SD card that is not damaged, you can use photo recovery software.

However, you can use the software if the memory SD card is accessible. And, the software will not work in case of physical damage to the SD card.

6: Go for SD Card data recovery services

In case of physical damage to the SD Card, you must seek the assistance of data recovery services. Data recovery services have built-in tools and a dedicated team to fix damaged SD card and safely recover lost, deleted, formatted data from SD Card.