(Partially Resolved) Android sudden crash leading to corrupted SD card? Need help!
Posted: 24 Jan 2019, 04:43
Hello, I am a total noob at this, and I'm not very good at expressing myself, so I'll start from the beginning.
I was using my Samsung S7 when it suddenly crashed. Upon (auto)reboot, I noticed my SD card was not detected. Tried rebooting my phone again to double check, still not found.
SD card is a 64gb Sandisk in exFAT. It contains very important data to me, pictures and videos taken mostly. I thought I had a backup, but turns out I was wrong. (Last backup was like 2 years ago... oh no...)
Thinking it may be a problem with the phone, I connected my SD card using an adapter to the PC (Windows). Fortunately, SD card is detected. In hopes of trying to copy the contents out, I tried to access the SD card.
For a brief moment (about 5 seconds), I can see and access the SD card and view it's folder. However, before I am able to view any contents, it crashed, and I was unable to access afterwards.
It suddenly became an exFAT drive with 0 bytes... That got me very worried. I tried searching for solutions online, and finally found photorec and testdisk (recommended by many users), and it seemed to be the best option available.
Here is where I attempted to salvage my SD card (as a newbie, but to no avail):
I tried using photorec first, to recover the files. No luck. 0 files detected/recovered. (Worried.)
Seems like my files turned into RAW.
Partition listed as "Unknown".
Tried using testdisk to create a backup and restore corrupted partition. No luck. (Very worried.)
Attempting to create an image (which lasted ~8 hours), yielded nothing. It created an image.dd with 0 kb. "Image created successfully but read errors have occurred."
partition table type> None
Type > exFAT
Tried to Analyze. Quick Search, and Deeper Search yielded no results... (x_x)
List>
Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged.
Boot>
Boot sector
Bad: can't read exFAT boot record.
Backup boot record
Bad: can't read exFAT backup boot record.
Sectors are identical.
Have no other options aside from Quit, and Dump. I think I am out of options... I do not know what else to do.
Is this the end of my data...? The end of my SD card...?
Just because of a sudden phone crash?
I need help...! Just when my life is about to improve... this happens! Bad things always happens.. why...
Read through the guides, it didn't work for me. Searched around the forums for similar problems that I've encountered, doesn't work for me.
Also, the cmd.exe will pause momentarily when it is attempting to access the corrupted SD card. It works smoothly for other drives.
Sorry if the information provided is insufficient...
Please help me...! Thank you...!
I was using my Samsung S7 when it suddenly crashed. Upon (auto)reboot, I noticed my SD card was not detected. Tried rebooting my phone again to double check, still not found.
SD card is a 64gb Sandisk in exFAT. It contains very important data to me, pictures and videos taken mostly. I thought I had a backup, but turns out I was wrong. (Last backup was like 2 years ago... oh no...)
Thinking it may be a problem with the phone, I connected my SD card using an adapter to the PC (Windows). Fortunately, SD card is detected. In hopes of trying to copy the contents out, I tried to access the SD card.
For a brief moment (about 5 seconds), I can see and access the SD card and view it's folder. However, before I am able to view any contents, it crashed, and I was unable to access afterwards.
It suddenly became an exFAT drive with 0 bytes... That got me very worried. I tried searching for solutions online, and finally found photorec and testdisk (recommended by many users), and it seemed to be the best option available.
Here is where I attempted to salvage my SD card (as a newbie, but to no avail):
I tried using photorec first, to recover the files. No luck. 0 files detected/recovered. (Worried.)
Seems like my files turned into RAW.
Partition listed as "Unknown".
Tried using testdisk to create a backup and restore corrupted partition. No luck. (Very worried.)
Attempting to create an image (which lasted ~8 hours), yielded nothing. It created an image.dd with 0 kb. "Image created successfully but read errors have occurred."
partition table type> None
Type > exFAT
Tried to Analyze. Quick Search, and Deeper Search yielded no results... (x_x)
List>
Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged.
Boot>
Boot sector
Bad: can't read exFAT boot record.
Backup boot record
Bad: can't read exFAT backup boot record.
Sectors are identical.
Have no other options aside from Quit, and Dump. I think I am out of options... I do not know what else to do.
Is this the end of my data...? The end of my SD card...?
Just because of a sudden phone crash?
I need help...! Just when my life is about to improve... this happens! Bad things always happens.. why...
Read through the guides, it didn't work for me. Searched around the forums for similar problems that I've encountered, doesn't work for me.
Also, the cmd.exe will pause momentarily when it is attempting to access the corrupted SD card. It works smoothly for other drives.
Sorry if the information provided is insufficient...
Please help me...! Thank you...!