o my, i've managed to corrupt my micro sd card.

[Guest jt!]

hey all,

Managed to make a huge fail today, shutdown my phone, removed micro sd, added some files via usb adapter, turned on phone to get a message "blank card or incompatible file system", prompted to format the card, i declined the offer and opted to try it in my pc again... windows doesnt read the card now either and offers to format it.

so i've tried a couple of recovery programs with no luck so far,

biggest question is should i reformat it before trying to recover the data?

any help or suggestions are much appreciated! im kind of stuck :/

[Guest Swimmerboy]

hey all,

Managed to make a huge fail today, shutdown my phone, removed micro sd, added some files via usb adapter, turned on phone to get a message "blank card or incompatible file system", prompted to format the card, i declined the offer and opted to try it in my pc again... windows doesnt read the card now either and offers to format it.

so i've tried a couple of recovery programs with no luck so far,

biggest question is should i reformat it before trying to recover the data?

any help or suggestions are much appreciated! im kind of stuck :/

I tend to use Photorec on the PC for this sort of thing. Does a block-by-block scan and is usually quite good at recovering photos, videos and documents from broken cards. It's freeware or open source somewhere - google should know.

[Guest Michealtbh]

DON'T reformat. Try a program called Recuva, I've had success with it in the past

[Guest jt!]

Cheers for the replies, just tried photorec starts searching for files then i get "Error reading sector 93184" with 0 files found, seem to have knackered this good and proper

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

boot with a ubuntu lice cd

go in system / administration

app gparted

and check partition with it

you can use disk utility too

menu check and repair partition

Edited April 14, 2011 by Phoenix Silver