Recently, I could not access data stored on my SD card. On the other hand, I received an error: “SD card is damaged. Try reformatting it.” Now, what should I do? Should I format this SD card immediately to reuse it again? Who can help me?
Now, in today’s post, I am going to show you how to effectively solve this problem?
Warning: DO NOT FORMAT SD CARD!
As a matter of fact, if you receive the “SD card is damaged, try reformatting it,” error, the first thing you should do is to find a suitable to get its lost data back, and then format it, for forming will delete all data. Details are show below.
Note: sometimes, users may receive another SD card error “SD card is blank or has unsupported file system”. In this situation, they can read this post 7 Solutions: SD Card Is Blank or Has Unsupported File System to find the best solution to solve this issue.
Step 1: Recover Data from Damaged SD Card
Do you know how to transfer data out from damaged SD card? If you don’t have any ideas, you may try MiniTool Power Data Recovery. Developed by MiniTool Solution Ltd., this professional, simple yet free data recovery software can help to easily, quickly recover data from SD card.
You only need to connect your SD card to computer, launch MiniTool Power Data Recovery, and then select a suitable data recovery module like Damaged Partition Recovery.
After that, you will be given detailed operating prompts. Just do as told.
Step 2: Format Damaged SD Card
After recovering data from damaged SD card, if you want to use this SD card with error “SD card is damaged, try reformatting it”, you can format it.
Windows disk management tool as well some partitioning tools like MiniTool Partition Wizard can help to effectively format hard drive. This post: How to Format a Hard Drive with Ease? will show you more information about drive formatting.
TIP: A VIDEO IS SHOWN HERE TO HELP YOU BETTER DEAL WITH DAMAGED SD CARD