SD card showing much lower capacity. Can TestDisk help?

How to use TestDisk to recover lost partition
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feetsdr
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SD card showing much lower capacity. Can TestDisk help?

#1 Post by feetsdr »

I have a micro SD card that's 32GB. It was working fine in my dashcam. Took it out to get a video and wanted to wipe it before reinstalling.
Formatting on windows 10 pro 64bit machine, 'something' happened. Now windows, disk management, diskpart show it as 120MB?

I searched for how to fix wrong size SD card and someone suggested TestDisk.
(other posts using diskpart, other apps, etc. all failed).

Not sure how I tell the app how to tell it to fix the geometry of the disk (that's the issue, right? the geometry is wrong?
I don't have data I need.
There's no partition on it.

THANKS!

recuperation
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Re: SD card showing much lower capacity. Can TestDisk help?

#2 Post by recuperation »

No, Testdisk can't help. Your card is broken.

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