Hi ladies/gents, I'm new to this forum so forgive me if I have posted in the wrong section, I have a dilemma as I aware most on here have and are seeking a resolution.
My android phone sd card stopped being read as of yesterday, I hooked the sd card to the pc and it is still not read.
I searched the newt and came across 'testdisk' seems to be the only SW that explicitly says do not format the drive, contrary to many solutions I have read, therefore I have put a lot of faith in trying to get my issues resolved here on this forum.
To start I ran testdisk and I found a NTFS partition, bad boot sector, bad backup sector, no other partitions found, however I was under the impression my sd card was formatted in exFAT or similar not NTFS, hence I am not sure if this partition found was a previous one, when I do look into the folders there are two folders there I recognise but I know there should be more folders/files if this is my current data.
I initially selected 'create' this then presented me with a disk option and a drive option, I wasn't sure which one to choose, so I looked into both separately, selecting disk /dev/sdc I then selected intel, I then selected analyse and it found 2 x FAT LBA; here;
I then click return to 'search' and it returned this , when I click 'p' I see folders and files, but not all as I know more should be present.
I am stuck from this point what I need to do, as I do not want to 'write' if I do not have all folders files present (viewable) to apply the fix to . If I simply quit and go back one step and press continue I get this screen: .I need advice, please, as preforming a deeper search results nothing.
I really need to know what I need to do and can my sd card be repaired.
The alternative is if I select 'create' from the start up menu and then choose 'drive' like here: , intel then analyse, I get this: , searching results nothing.
Please, I maybe a noobie to this but as SW Engineers and coders normally ask or require a donation, then I am more than happy to donate if it resolves my issues completely, or if some good Samaritan can lead the way I am more than happy to try anything if it results in a fix.
I appreciate your time reading and hope for some good feddabck to my issues.
Regards
smash
'format sd card'?
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Re: 'format sd card'?
Choose to write this partition, confirm and Quit.
Try to navigate on your SD card. If some files are missing, run PhotoRec.
Good luck
Try to navigate on your SD card. If some files are missing, run PhotoRec.
Good luck
Re: 'format sd card'?
Hi will using a different pc give different results, the reason I ask is I used a work pc this morning to view the sd card and run testdisk and I don;t have any of the options I had yesterday.
intel, analyse
now I get;
speedstor bad
2 speedstor bad
3 speedstor bad
4 speedstor bad
relative sector bad
choosing; none, analyse; it finds exFAT partiion, under boot, boot ok, backup boot ok
Please help
intel, analyse
now I get;
speedstor bad
2 speedstor bad
3 speedstor bad
4 speedstor bad
relative sector bad
choosing; none, analyse; it finds exFAT partiion, under boot, boot ok, backup boot ok
Please help