exFAT SD Card on Mac Corrupted - I've tried a lot of things
Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 06:49
One day the SD card stopped working in my Mac and tells me to "initialize" it, so I open disk utility and try first aid and I am met with this:
Googled and tried to self-solve and found this: https://craigsmith.id.au/2014/07/06/rep ... partition/
I tried It but never got "Main boot region needs to be updated. Yes/No?" and this was the result:
I then remembered TestDisk - I have used it before for the Boot Camp partition, and I read the guide here: https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf
I tried the instructions in section 7.4 and copied the backup to the main; still no luck--same as above.
I tried to search and write a partition; maybe I'm not doing it right, but no luck.
I tried chkdsk on Windows, but the filesystem in RAW.
I haven't reformatted it, but I have used EaseUS to recover much, if not all, of the data, but it didn't keep my folder structure and I'm sure not everything is there/uncorrupted.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance. I tried to do my own research before asking, but now I'm stumped.
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Repairing file system.
Volume is already unmounted.
Performing fsck_exfat -y -x /dev/rdisk2s1
Checking volume.
Checking main boot region.
Main boot region is invalid. Trying alternate boot region.
Checking alternate boot region.
Alternate boot region is invalid.
The volume could not be verified completely.
File system check exit code is 1.
Restoring the original state found as unmounted.
File system verify or repair failed.
Operation failed…I tried It but never got "Main boot region needs to be updated. Yes/No?" and this was the result:
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sudo fsck_exfat -d disk2s1
Password:
Opening /dev/rdisk2s1
** Checking volume.
** Checking main boot region.
fsck_exfat: Invalid version (000E)
Main boot region is invalid. Trying alternate boot region.
** Checking alternate boot region.
fsck_exfat: Invalid version (000E)
Alternate boot region is invalid.
** The volume could not be verified completely.I tried the instructions in section 7.4 and copied the backup to the main; still no luck--same as above.
I tried to search and write a partition; maybe I'm not doing it right, but no luck.
I tried chkdsk on Windows, but the filesystem in RAW.
I haven't reformatted it, but I have used EaseUS to recover much, if not all, of the data, but it didn't keep my folder structure and I'm sure not everything is there/uncorrupted.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance. I tried to do my own research before asking, but now I'm stumped.