One day, you connect the SD card to computer, but it tells you that the SD card is damaged. Try to reformatting it. If you have important files on the hard drive, you will be at loss. To format the SD card or not? Format will delete all your data on the SD card, but not format the SD card will not fix the inaccessible SD card. Is there any other way to fix the damaged SD card without data loss? Of course, you can fix your damaged SD card with data loss.
How to fix the damaged SD card without data loss?
If you do not want to lost your data, you have two options. The first one is to use chkdsk command, and the second one is to run data recovery software to recover the lost data.
How to use chkdsk command to fix the damaged SD card?
Connect your SD card with the computer and find and open the cmd.exe.
Type chkdsk /X /f sd card letter: and then press Enter.
The system will automatically check and fix the file system of this SD card. It will take some time. After you have see a line says that Windows has made corrections to the file system in the command window, it means that the damaged SD card has been successfully fixed and you can close this window to check the Sd card.
If this does not work, you need to try the data recovery software to recover the SD card.
How to use data recovery software to recover data from the damaged SD card?
Hdata recovery software is a professional data recovery software that can be used to recover deleted data, lost data on formatted SD card. It also supports the data recovery of internal hard drive and other USB devices.
Connect your SD card with computer and make sure it can be detected or show up in disk management. As long as it can show up in the disk management, the data recovery software can scan and recover the data.
Choose the recovery mode for SD card: Deleted your files from flash disk. Scan the SD card.
After scan, you can preview all the listed recoverable data. Preview and check only the files you need.
Choose a recovery path for the data. You should select another location where have no data loss.
After you have recovered all your data from the SD card, you can format the SD card to fix the damaged Sd card easily.
