SD Card not accessible and won't format

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Gustavo
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SD Card not accessible and won't format

#1 Post by Gustavo »

My SD card stopped working while in the camera, there was some error while taking a photo and then I turned off and on, and next time it turned on it asked to format the card.

I inserted the SD card on my mac and it doesn’t recognise, doesn’t even appear on disk utility. But if I have the card inside the camera and connect the camera via USB then I can see in disk utility that it somehow recognises a 16GB drive but it is not mountable or readable. This is also the only way photorec/testdisk detects the card. It didn’t when inserted in the SD card slot.

I tried first using the photorec/testdisk with no success. I’m not even sure which one I should use but then I understood I could try to format the card and then use photorec to recover the photos.

But then I figured out I can’t even format the card. Not in camera and not anywhere else.
I even tried using the app SD Card Formatter to format it, but I get this message:

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Error

[ERROR] Invalid end of sector signature: 0x0000
[ERROR] fat_check_validate_boot_sector returned error: 22 (Invalid argument)
[ERROR] Initializing cached values failed: 22 (Invalid argument)
[ERROR] Generated invalid volume. fat_volume_create returned: 22 (Invalid argument)
Otherwise I ran testdisk but nothing seems to happen. After analyse, it doesn’t find any partition, Quick or Deeper search gives no results. Photorec doesn't find anything.




Here is the log for testdisk:



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Tue May 22 10:01:49 2018
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.1-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, April 2018
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Darwin, kernel 16.5.0 (Darwin Kernel Version 16.5.0: Fri Mar  3 16:52:33 PST 2017; root:xnu-3789.51.2~3/RELEASE_X86_64) x86_64
Compiler: GCC 4.0
Compilation date: 2018-05-14T07:01:41
ext2fs lib: 1.42.8, ntfs lib: libntfs-3g, reiserfs lib: 0.3.1-rc8, ewf lib: 20120504, curses lib: ncurses 5.4
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/disk0 - 251 GB / 233 GiB - 490234752 sectors (RO), sector size=512
Disk /dev/disk2 - 16 GB / 15 GiB - 31719424 sectors, sector size=512
Disk /dev/disk3 - 1048 KB / 1024 KiB - 2048 sectors (RO), sector size=512
Disk /dev/rdisk0 - 251 GB / 233 GiB - 490234752 sectors (RO), sector size=512
Disk /dev/rdisk1 - 249 GB / 232 GiB - 487849984 sectors (RO), sector size=512
Disk /dev/rdisk2 - 16 GB / 15 GiB - 31719424 sectors, sector size=512
Disk /dev/rdisk3 - 1048 KB / 1024 KiB - 2048 sectors (RO), sector size=512

Partition table type defaults to EFI GPT
Disk /dev/disk2 - 16 GB / 15 GiB
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Disk /dev/disk2 - 16 GB / 15 GiB - 31719424 sectors
Current partition structure:

Partition sector doesn't have the endmark 0xAA55

search_part()
Disk /dev/disk2 - 16 GB / 15 GiB - 31719424 sectors

Results

interface_write()
 
No partition found or selected for recovery

search_part()
Disk /dev/disk2 - 16 GB / 15 GiB - 31719424 sectors

Results

interface_write()
 
No partition found or selected for recovery
simulate write!

write_mbr_i386: starting...
Store new MBR code
write_all_log_i386: starting...
No extended partition

TestDisk exited normally.

Any ideas?

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Re: SD Card not accessible and won't format

#2 Post by cgrenier »

The SD card is physically damaged. You need to replace it.
If you really need to recover your pictures, you need to contact a data recovery company.

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Re: SD Card not accessible and won't format

#3 Post by Gustavo »

Ok, thank you.
What is the piece of information in the log that shows that?
Yes there are important photos inside. Do you have any experience of some companies that do this, should I send it to manufacturer (SanDisk) or something else?
I am in Europe, but if needed I could send it anywhere.
Thank you

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Re: SD Card not accessible and won't format

#4 Post by cgrenier »

I will send you a PM with an European company that do such data recovery.

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