New but now corrupted SD card

Memory Cards SD | microSD | CFast | CFexpress | CompactFlash
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I restarted my phone this morning when I exprerienced a freeze. After this, I opened my memory card to find out that it had been corrupted. The files I had, had increased tremendously in size and had the “?” on them.

I formatted the card on Sunday because of the same problem! This time, I’d like to see if I get some of my files back.

I moved 3 files to my memory card drive before I slept. I suspect 2 of the files caused this. I downloaded them.

Please help me. :crying_cat_face:

PS: I use the SD card on my phone

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:smiley:   Hi Inquisitive,

Dear member of SanDisk Community, welcome.

1-   Please, first of all, clean the pins on the card and the phone slot, with isopropyl alcohol (or common).

2-   Try another SD card in the phone.

3-  Put the SD, in a laptop, directly to its port, with a good adapter (not a card reader).

3-   In Star / My Computer , on the card icon, click the right mouse button, and then click in Properties / Tools / Error Checking and Repair.

4-   If still bad, try formatting with (free): USB Flash SD Formatter 4.00,  http://filecloud.io/jqtu1byc

5-   If there is no joy,  please, do not grieve more, friend, return it, is defective. See link: http://www.sandisk.com/about-sandisk/contact-us/

Luck, and then you tell us, what happened, please.

Regards, Alfred.                                                            (Google translated)

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What’s “isopropyl alcohol”? Is it common? i.e Should every household have one?

Will methylated spirit do?

Yeah, trying another SD card on it worked just fine.

Please, how does a memory card adapter  look like? I’m a bit surprised that it’s different from a mem card reader because when I searched for it online, results for a reader came instead. And it seems readers ■■■■ 'cos you’re even recommending an adapter instead. 

And I’m guessing step 4 works only if I’ve got an adapter. I’ll wait for your reply before I proceed with the steps. 

Thank you very much. x

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:smiley:   Hi Inquisitive,

“Clarifying”:

1-   Alcohol: see at a pharmacy.

2-   Adapter or reader, see link:

http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/Mobile-memory-professional-cards/Micro-SD-Adapter-needed-to-unlock-write-protection-on-micro-SD/m-p/323920#M3218

3-   “Erratum”: is Start / My Computer, no Star / My Computer.

Enjoy!

Regards, Alfred.

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Okay. Step no. 4 didn’t work.  I haven’t tried no.1, I’m afraid. This is because the card is still new and the gold pins look neat. I don’t think it will do any good.

Woud formatting it with windows be good enough?

Can I really return it and get my money back? There’s a little blemish I made at the back of the card. I scratched a golden something so I could properly see the number at the back. How can I show you what I mean?

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:smiley:   Hi Inquisitive,

5-   If there is no joy,  please, do not grieve more, friend, return it, is defective. See link: http://www.sandisk.com/about-sandisk/contact-us/

Regards, Alfred.

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I had same problem with Sony HDR-PJ240, 64 & 32 Gb cards not readable by camera, but by pc, formatted by PC still would not work or even be recognised in camera. But did the following:

Recovering SD card on Sony camera when No picture on screen (lens cover open),

And memory card symbol flashing.

  1. Remove memory card
  2. Go to Settings- Initialize Press upper screen button- “Reset to default settings” click “OK”
  3. Screen will go blank and reboot.
  4. If It does not reboot, remove all mains power & battery, wait 15seconds for chipset to reset, install battery & mains power (but Works on a full battery)
  5. Now put memory card in and reformat or recover, repair using device to format not on PC.

Worked on both my cards 64 & 32 gb Sandisk cards

It seems the device needs to format cards itself. It will be interesting to see if the same reboot / recovery method works on other devices that use sandisk cards!

I hope this helps, I wasted 4 hours trying to resolve this with recovery software and almost went out and bought another card.

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Thanks for your reply, firgle; but for me, even when I put the mem card in a PC, it was still showing me nonsense. I mean that my files still looked corrupted. 

And I had previously formatted the card with the device itself. That didn’t stop the card from getting corrupted again. 

So in ur case, did u have to lose ur files or were the SD cards empty?

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Thanks for your reply, @firgle109. For me, even when I put the mem card in a PC, it was still showing me nonsense. I mean that my files still looked corrupted. 

And I had previously formatted the card with the device itself. That didn’t stop the card from getting corrupted again. 

So in ur case, did u have to lose ur files or were the SD cards empty?

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@cacho wrote:

:smiley:   Hi Inquisitive,

 

5-   If there is no joy,  please, do not grieve more, friend, return it, is defective. See link: http://www.sandisk.com/about-sandisk/contact-us/

 

Regards, Alfred.

Thanks for ur help, Alfred. I had to return the card; I didn’t get my money back, though. 

I hope someday I’ll buy that Isopropyl Alcohol.

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Well, if you have found that your SD card has become corrupted then you can try the solutions mentioned in the link mentioned here: http://www.rescuedigitalmedia.com/sd-card-recovery-4

Here, you will to know the complete solutions to get back lost data from corrupted SD card.

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Hi, there are having the best 13 ways to help fix corrupted SD card in 2020:

Solution 1: Try Another USB Port or SD Card Adapter/Reader
Solution 2: Use on Another PC/System
Solution 3: Clean the Golden Finger Pin
Solution 4: Show Hidden Files Stored on the SD Card
Fix 1: Use Error Checking Tool
Fix 2: Use Chkdsk Command to Fix Corrupted SD Card
Fix 3: Use Windows built-in Troubleshooter
Fix 4: Assign a New Drive Letter
Fix 5: Update the SD Card Driver
Fix 6: Diskpart the SD Card Without Formatting
Fix 7: Convert the SD card to FAT32
Fix 8: Full-Format the SD Card
Fix 9: SD Card Repair Tool Provided by Manufacturer

Try each method to get rid of the issue! Good Luck