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Posted: **09 Mar 2016, 03:51**

I've recently been using a USB to Micro SD adapter, and that has been causing me disconnect issues recently. I used the SD card to Micro SD adapter, and now my MicroSD fails to work, and returns an error message "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer."

Upon running TestDisk , I was able to find the error of a bad starting sector.

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TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/rdisk1 - 63 GB / 59 GiB - 124735488 sectors
Current partition structure:
     Partition                  Start        End    Size in sectors

Invalid NTFS or EXFAT boot
 1 P HPFS - NTFS                32768  124735487  124702720
 1 P HPFS - NTFS                32768  124735487  124702720

Warning: Bad starting sector (CHS and LBA don't match)
No partition is bootable

The log is above.

What further steps should I take to recover the SD card's data* and make it usable again?

*Note: I have run PhotoRec and gotten back 23 gigs of my 64 gigs of data. Can I recover more?

TL;DR CHS and LBA don't match, need to recover data and disk.

Thanks

OS: Mac OSX 10.9.5
TestDisk 7.0

Posted: **09 Mar 2016, 08:41**

Try TestDisk, Advanced, Boot, RebuildBS, List. If you can see your files, choose Write, confirm, Quit

Posted: **09 Mar 2016, 18:03**

Thanks for your quick response! My computer is currently down, so I'll reply with my results once I can get this 4 year old machine to boot.

Cheers, CG!

Posted: **05 Apr 2016, 18:17**

cgrenier wrote:Try TestDisk, Advanced, Boot, RebuildBS, List. If you can see your files, choose Write, confirm, Quit

To confirm,

I want to try that with my corrupted primary partition that converted to RAW.

Are you sure RebuildBS doesn't write anything to the partition unless we choose "Write" after seeing a legible list of files?

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