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Hi All

I have a 64 gig San disc micro SD card in my phone that stopped being recognised by my phone. I Plugged the SD card into a reader and into my PC, and Windows doesnt acknowledge that anything has been plugged in. In fact, just having the SD card in the reader is crashing windows file explorer unfortunately.


Ive downloaded Photorec and testdisc and had a look, but the README is way over my head and i dont really know what im doing.

Photoreq recognises my SD Card and was saying Invalid format or Bad starting head or something, but Ive navigated my way to the file recovery and given it a directory and set it to work. Its giving an estimation of 4h to completion but has been running so far for about 20 mins and has recovered about 24 MP3s and has recovered 30 directories, but its just multiple copies of the same two photos ?

Is there a tutorial or something anywhere with what i should try and fix first etc ? really not sure what i am doing.


Thanks

Check out www.cgsecurity.org.
There is lots of information.

On the other hand, when you say that the "README" (file named "readme.txt") is way over your head, you would really need to consult a professional recovery service.

This is the content of the "readme.txt":

recuperation wrote: 30 Aug 2021, 19:27 Check out www.cgsecurity.org.
There is lots of information.

On the other hand, when you say that the "README" (file named "readme.txt") is way over your head, you would really need to consult a professional recovery service.

This is the content of the "readme.txt":

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The Windows version of TestDisk & PhotoRec should work under
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7 and later
- Windows Server 2008 and later

The Windows version of QPhotoRec should work under
- Windows 7 and later
- Windows Server 2008 and later

You can download it from https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

TestDisk doesn't need to be installed, you only need to
- extract the files
- run testdisk_win.exe, photorec_win.exe or qphotorec_win.exe

TestDisk & PhotoRec documentation can be found online:
- https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
- https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

TestDisk & PhotoRec 7.0 is the last version supporting Windows Server 2003.
TestDisk & PhotoRec 6.14 is the last version running on
- Windows NT 4
- Windows XP
- Windows Server 2000

scratch that, i meant the testdisc pdf

in anycase ive done a recovery twice now and both times its just given me about 10k copies of the same 2 photos in 140 directories :/

I've been going through the online documents and trying to go through some of it.

I've managed to navigate my way through the programme and find the list of folders that are on the SD card, and tried copying some files off it, but none are loading properly.

can anyone diagnose what the problem is so i can go back through the documents and try and fix it please ?

here is the test log



Mon Aug 30 22:52:27 2021
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.2-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, May 2021
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 8 (9200)
Compiler: GCC 9.3, Cygwin 3001.4
ext2fs lib: 1.45.3, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: none, ewf lib: 20140608, curses lib: ncurses 6.1
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive0)=240057409536
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive1)=2000398934016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive2)=63864569856
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\C:)=238933476352
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\D:)=2000397795328
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\E:)=63863521280
Hard disk list
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive0 - 240 GB / 223 GiB - CHS 29185 255 63, sector size=512 - TEAML5Lite3D240G, S/N:AB20180702A0101654, FW:Q0410A
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63, sector size=512 - ST2000DM006-2DM164, S/N:Z4ZBG9QX, FW:CC26
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 63 GB / 59 GiB - CHS 7764 255 63, sector size=512 - Generic STORAGE DEVICE, S/N:000000174909, FW:9407

Partition table type (auto): Intel
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 63 GB / 59 GiB - Generic STORAGE DEVICE
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 63 GB / 59 GiB - CHS 7764 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=256 sector=63
BAD_RS LBA=2048 16450622


test_FAT()
1 * FAT32 LBA 0 32 33 7764 108 24 124733440
sector_size 0
cluster_size 0
reserved 0
fats 0
dir_entries 0
sectors 0
media 00
fat_length 0
secs_track 0
heads 0
hidden 0
total_sect 0
check_part_i386 failed for partition type 0C
Current partition structure:
Invalid FAT boot sector
1 * FAT32 LBA 0 32 33 7764 108 24 124733440
1 * FAT32 LBA 0 32 33 7764 108 24 124733440

Warning: Bad starting head (CHS and LBA don't match)

Ive gone through TestDisk, Advanced, Boot, RebuildBS and arrived at "cant find cluster size"

Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive2 - 63 GB / 59 GiB - CHS 7764 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 * FAT32 LBA 0 32 33 7764 108 24 124733440
Boot sector
fat32_boot_sector: Can't read boot sector. Bad Backup boot sector
fat32_boot_sector: Can't read backup boot sector. Bad Sectors are identical.
A valid FAT Boot sector must be present in order to access
any data; even if the partition is not bootable.


im guessing this is not good.

Try Photorec and or any commercial recovery software.

recuperation wrote: 31 Aug 2021, 22:24 Try Photorec and or any commercial recovery software.

Unfortunately photorec just gives me 20 gigs worth of the same 2 files over and over.

I was able to navigate to the list of files on the drive and copy every jpeg out of one folder, but that also just gave me duplicate copies of the same corrupt image.

Which version of Testdisk are you using?

recuperation wrote: 01 Sep 2021, 16:53 Which version of Testdisk are you using?

As far as i know 7.1 but I will check.