It’s life shattering. You’ve lost all of your memories, videos, and photos. Today, I’m going to teach you how to salvage data from a corrupt SD card
Have you ever had your computer throw an error at you when it couldn’t read a file off your SD card? It was probably pretty annoying. If you are lucky, the file was small, and all you had to do was toss the card and start over. However, if you were unlucky and the card contained hours of video or hundreds of gigabytes of data, it could take a lot longer to recover. Not to worry though, this is where we come in!
We all know about the super useful micro-SD card, which you can use in pretty much any kind of mobile device. But we also know that sometimes, things don’t go according to plan when using the card — whether it’s swapping information between devices, or just accidentally deleting something important. If you’re ever unlucky enough to have some data deleted from your card, and you don’t have an automatic backup solution in place, you might feel like your entire life is over — but there IS a way to recover your files and folders.
How to fix corruption on external disks? Some people think they can get away with a simple photo backup plan by throwing their pictures onto an SD card here, another one there and maybe even a 128GB package somewhere else.
So you’ve been taking a series of photos, and can’t believe what happens when you try to view them, yikes! Instead of the images you see only a garbled bunch of characters.
Losing your photos and videos can be devastating. Fortunately, there are plenty of different ways to get that content back. You’ll need a recovery program to help you salvage your data. A great choice would be PhotoRec from the developers.
I’ve relied on compact flash cards for around ten years now. When I started out as a fresh-faced cub reporter, they were the number one way to get videos of breaking news stories onto feeds, along with stills and audio files. Over time I’ve used them in my professional and personal capacities: in a digital camera for images, the early days of wildlife filming on the latest video camcorders, and even a backdoor way of getting MP3s onto my Nano by playing them from an Eye-Fi card via Bluetooth. Even today I use them regularly for backup storage and moving files around.
The only problem with CF cards is that they’re pretty rubbish – if you’re going to rely on one for your files, you need to know how to salvagedata from a corrupt SD card before it’s too late. Bear in mind that there are two different kinds of Compact Flash card: SD and CF (SDSC or SONY).
I’m sure you never thought you would be in that situation where you have your finger crossed and hope beyond all hope that the figures stored on your Micro SD card aren’t lost for good. But, if it does happen to you at some point, this post is for you.