MicroSD Card - Partition Lost
Posted: 05 Feb 2013, 00:54
Hello
My girlfriend's Sandisk 32Gb MicroSD card was within her Samsung Galaxy Ace mobile phone and suddenly one day the card becomes corrupt and loses all data.
I asked various questions and the winning answer seems to be that a magnet was nearby in her bag, but this is not 100% definitely the reason.
Anyway, I've got the card in my PC now and running TestDisk v6.14 on Windows Vista 64 bit.
I have tried various partition testing under Intel, None and some others but the only one that even sees anything is "None". However, it is displaying the size as 32Mb not 32Gb. Might be significant?
Under "None" it also says "Partition sector doesn't have the endmark 0xAA55"
I then read some posts and saw some information on changing the Partition type manually from Unknown to something else to try and fix the Boot record. So I tried FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS... no joy. It says it can't find the cluster size.
It is not vitally important in value, purely in sentimental value. We already have another MicroSD card on its way to us as I do not believe in using storage that has gone through this!
But saying that, we would really like to get some of the holiday photos that were on it back to somewhere safer.
Could someone knowledgeable please give me some tips?
Thank you
My girlfriend's Sandisk 32Gb MicroSD card was within her Samsung Galaxy Ace mobile phone and suddenly one day the card becomes corrupt and loses all data.
I asked various questions and the winning answer seems to be that a magnet was nearby in her bag, but this is not 100% definitely the reason.
Anyway, I've got the card in my PC now and running TestDisk v6.14 on Windows Vista 64 bit.
I have tried various partition testing under Intel, None and some others but the only one that even sees anything is "None". However, it is displaying the size as 32Mb not 32Gb. Might be significant?
Under "None" it also says "Partition sector doesn't have the endmark 0xAA55"
I then read some posts and saw some information on changing the Partition type manually from Unknown to something else to try and fix the Boot record. So I tried FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS... no joy. It says it can't find the cluster size.
It is not vitally important in value, purely in sentimental value. We already have another MicroSD card on its way to us as I do not believe in using storage that has gone through this!
But saying that, we would really like to get some of the holiday photos that were on it back to somewhere safer.
Could someone knowledgeable please give me some tips?
Thank you