Here you can learn how to fix or repair damaged memory card and recover your data by using CMD command line or third-party memory card recovery software with simple steps. This Guruztech teaches you how to recover the photos and other data from a malfunctioning memory card. It will also teach you how to reformat the memory card for continued use if the memory card is repairable. Things to remember to protect your SD card! Never remove a memory card while turning on/off your camera or other devices. Never remove your memory card while saving and viewing a photograph. Do not take or view new pictures on battery low mode. Never change your memory card when the camera is on. Use SD cards from big brands such as SanDisk, Panasonic, Sony, Kingston, Lexar, Olympus, etc Supported SD cards: Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Software supports almost all types memory cards, such as SD, SDHC, SDSC, SDXC, SDIO,Mini SD, Micro SD, memory cards along with SSD, MMC, CF, XD, cell phone memory card, Compact memory cards,which are used in digital cameras, camcorders, mobile phones, MP3 players and any other type media cards, etc. Here is the step by step procedure: Step 1 – At times, some of the devices may not read an SD card, therefore, try to connect your SD card to another device. Step 2 – Insert the affected card into a card reader and connect it to your system. Click on the “Start” option from your Windows taskbar and then select the “Computer” option. Search for your SD card under “Devices with Removable Storage” and note the drive letter assigned. Next, click the “Start” option again and type “cmd” in the “search” box. Right-click “cmd” and then select the “Run as administrator” option. A command window opens, and you can fix your corrupt memory card from here. Next, type “chkdsk” followed by the drive letter corresponding to the SD card, then by a colon and /f. After you press “enter”, the Chkdsk will check for possible errors and try to fix the corrupt SD card. Follow the subsequent message prompts. Lastly, check your assigned drive letter to your SD card to verify if the files are recovered or not. Step 3 – Connect your SD card to a card reader to the system, if your system doesn’t assign a new drive letter to it, then it isn’t reading it. In some cases, the reader might be assigned a drive letter, but still, you get the message “Please insert the disk into drive E:” indicating that it isn’t reading the card. To resolve this problem assign a new drive letter to this connected Card through your operating system settings. Step 4 – If none of the files can be read, then possibly the directory will list the filenames, but the files can’t be accessed. You can right-click on the drive letter and select “Properties.” If you can view the used space on the card and if it shows all or almost all free space, then either all the files have been deleted, or the directory has been erased. In this case, you can use a Sandisk inbuilt solution that might restore all the deleted files easily. Step 5 – If you can read all the files but can’t save them, then your card might be in write protected mode. Unlock the switch to save or modify files on the card. If still, you are unable to read or write to the card, then possibly your files are lost or have become inaccessible. To fix it, you need to use a disk diagnostic tool that can work on memory cards too. Although you can also get access to your card by reformatting it, it will remove everything on the card. Therefore, make sure you have recovered all the stored files and copied everything to another drive before SD Card format. In the case of camera or Smartphone you need to use an SD card Recovery software as most of the files stored on your SD card will be related to photos and other media files. There are some sd card recovery tools available online which are efficient enough to avail you the best and accurate recovery results. You just need to choose the right tool and try to restore your lost, deleted and inaccessible files from the SD card. Step 6– You can try to reinstall the driver. To do so follow these steps: Go to and right click on My Computer/ This PC. Click on the option Manage. Click on Device Manager option on the left side. Double-Click Disk Drives option from the list. Then Right Click on the name of your removable drive. Click on Uninstall and click on Ok. Disconnect your storage media and restart your PC. Reconnect your SD card again. Your PC will detect it. Step 7– Nothing worked?? Yes, Recovery Software is your solution! Whenever an SD card becomes inaccessible or formatted, then most of the time the stored data gets lost. However, all files remain in the same position on the card and can be recovered by a Photo recovery technology. Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Software is specially designed to fetch all the lost photos and other media files from their actual place and make them visible. To restore all lost files from an SD card, make sure the card is not physically damaged. Additionally, stop using your SD card before recovery. Recovery Steps for getting your memories back! Download & install and connect the SD card to your system to initiate the recovery of photos/music/videos from SD card. Next, select ‘Recover Photo, Audio, & Video’ option from the main interface. The software lists all the connected volumes and external drives. Select the drive that you want to scan for recovery and click ‘Start Now’. Here, you will also get the option of ‘Advanced Scan’ that allows you to customize the recovery by file types. The ‘Advanced Scan’ option lets you select the specific files to scan from the file list such as ‘Photo’, ‘Audio’, or ‘Video’. Additionally, you can also select the data range from the storage media. These options let you customize the process and minimize the scanning time After initiating a scan, you will be able to view the process in the scanning process bar. All the found files will be listed in a tree like structure format in the left-hand side window pane. Now, you can preview the listed items by clicking on them. Here, you can also select the desired files and click the ‘Recover’ button to initiate recovery. The next window asks you to select a location to save the recovered multimedia files. Choose the desired location and save the recovered files.
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