johnporter29 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 I have been asked by a friend to try and recover some photos from a SD Card. The card came from a mobile, and connected to a PC via a card reader and then back into the phone, in between this something has gone wrong and the phone will no longer read the card. The card size is 4GB. I can view the card contents on my PC, I have attached a screenshot below of the contents for you too see. As this is a 4GB card, there are 5 files on there that are 1GB+. Is there any chance of recovering from this? I also get periodic message about not been able to access the drive because of a IO failure depending on the USB port I plug my card reader into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 run a chkdsk /f on it yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnporter29 Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 I have now and that's allowed me to recover a few files. Thanks. I have since formatted the card and checked it for errors and it says it's fine, but soon as I try and copy files back onto it, it errors and says the card has errors, I think it's destined for the bin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Yeah I wouldn't trust it, with as cheap as SD Cards are now, something is wrong with the Flash on it, so ditch it. Brandon H 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted January 16, 2015 MVC Share Posted January 16, 2015 Well can be run on solid state media with spinrite at level 2 which is read only. Then if it finds a bad spot it kicks in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Spinrite is bootable only no? Can it even see an SD Card in a SD Card slot or reader? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted January 16, 2015 MVC Share Posted January 16, 2015 Spinrite is bootable only no? Can it even see an SD Card in a SD Card slot or reader? Yep it's bootable, spinrite can see a USB stick. So I don't see why it wouldn't see an SD card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 SD Cards Typically mount through a different process/controller driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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