In today’s tutorial we are going to teach you how to repair and recover a damaged SD or micro SD card. You will also learn how to format a damaged microSD to try to fix any kind of errors it contains.
If your SD card was damaged, in some cases it is possible to recover the lost information. Although in others it is something that cannot be done, it does not matter what you do and the only option left is to format it in the hope that it will continue to work.
Something that we recommend is that you always have a backup of what you save on a microSD or pendrive. It is best to opt for cloud storage, as it is the safest thing we have at the moment to store important information.
When you have everything in the cloud, in services like Google Drive, One Drive, etc. Being from serious and reliable companies. You can be completely sure that all your information will never be lost. In addition, both services have free versions with a lot of space that is more than enough for most users.
It is not at all strange that an SD card is damaged, especially if it was not too careful to say. However, today we are going to see two methods to try to repair it. The first less invasive where we are going to make the attempt to recover all the information that your card has.
In case it does not merge, the only alternative we will have is to format it. The problem is that when formatting all the data in it are lost. But we will have no other alternative in case the first solution is not effective.
How to recover a corrupted SD card
- You will need to insert the SD card into your computer or laptop. For this you will need an adapter in case it does not have a microSD slot.
- After this you will have to press the ” Windows + R ” keys or go to ” Start “, type ” Run ” and press ” Enter “.
- In the run window you must write CMD and press accept.
- Now we are in the Windows command console. The first command that we are going to insert is chkdsk X: / F where the “ X ” is located, you will have to enter the letter of the drive that was assigned to the microSD, you can see this from “ My Computer ”.
- In case “/F ” doesn’t work you can try “/R ” or both “/F/R ”.
The F command is for troubleshooting microSD errors , while the R command is for scanning the drive for bad sectors. The idea is to test these commands with the intention of recovering the information you have in it and trying to repair it.
How to repair a damaged microSD
In case the above mentioned method does not work. The only alternative we have left is to format the card in question. What you should keep in mind is that when you format it, all the information found in it is lost.
- For this you will have to go to ” My Computer ” and locate the drive assigned to the SD card.
- After this you will have to right click to display a menu.
- In this menu you will have to click on the option ” Format .”
- A new window opens where you will have to choose a few options.
- By default the “File system” comes in FAT32, but you can choose ” NTFS ” if you are going to use too large files.
In this specific case, it is best to uncheck the ” Quick format ” option to give it a complete and deep format, thus avoiding possible errors in the future.