exfat partition corrupted then lost
Posted: 03 Dec 2013, 15:15
I had a 6bGB sd card in my Android phone, and upgraded from Samsung firmware to Cyanogenmod. Seems there's a known issue where a card moving from Samsung to any other Android version will get corrupted as Samsung use exfat and other versions just corrupt it... To make matters worse, while trying out the memory card in different card readers after it stopped working something's obviously written to it and I've gone from having a corrupt filesystem to broken partitions.
So I'm currently in a state where I did have a 64GB exfat partition, but now the card seems to have a 27GB raw partition on it. I've performed a standard and deep scan with testdisk and haven't found any recoverable partitions.
I've also tried photorec and have recovered some of my photos, but it looks like photorec's only been able to look at that first 27GB and not the space that follows it.
I'm not sure what'd be the best next step - delete the partition and create a new one (quick format) that covers the full 64GB? I'm assuming if I jsut delete the partition and don't create a new one then Windows won't even see a drive letter and I won't be able to scan it at all?
Any help or advice would be apreciated!
So I'm currently in a state where I did have a 64GB exfat partition, but now the card seems to have a 27GB raw partition on it. I've performed a standard and deep scan with testdisk and haven't found any recoverable partitions.
I've also tried photorec and have recovered some of my photos, but it looks like photorec's only been able to look at that first 27GB and not the space that follows it.
I'm not sure what'd be the best next step - delete the partition and create a new one (quick format) that covers the full 64GB? I'm assuming if I jsut delete the partition and don't create a new one then Windows won't even see a drive letter and I won't be able to scan it at all?
Any help or advice would be apreciated!