64GB Samsung SD card died... need help getting it to read again

scrimshaw on 07/01/2016 - 23:02
Last edited 07/01/2016 - 23:03

Hi guys,

My 64GB Samsung SD card died all of a sudden. It was sitting mounted in my ASUS Memopad 10FHD when it decided to unmount by itself.

Took out the card and placed it into my windows machine, and it's not being detected at all.

Receipt is gone and I can't for the life of me even recall which store I bought from (got too many SD cards recently)

I don't have to retrieve the files from it, but rather, I would like to get a list of files that were on it, which were mostly ebooks, since I'd like to know where I'm up to and which books I was reading.

Any utilities that can read a dead SD card?

Computing

Comments

  • symo on 08/01/2016 - 00:31
    +1

    Gooday mate, have you tried Recuva
    https://www.piriform.com/recuva
    that may possibly help.

  • Davo1111 on 08/01/2016 - 00:58

    testdisk and recuva.

    But I dont think either will help if you can't access it at all.

    Is it in an adapter? or straight in?

  • PJC on 08/01/2016 - 03:15

    Is there a chance the card needs cleaning?

  • p1 ama on 08/01/2016 - 09:13
    +1

    Clean the terminals on the card, that usually can be a factor, but apart from that I think all you can do is really just try one of the recovery software packages and see how you go. If it's nothing important, I wouldn't bother hacking it apart and stuff like that.

  • j03 on 12/01/2016 - 00:22

    if its critical data then try contacting pinoy (he recovers data from dead hdd & any type of memory cards). Don't think it will be cheap though.

    But since you said you just wanted to get a listing then its not really critical. Not much in the software forefront will help if its a hardware issue, ie controllers crapped out..

    As with Samsung warranty they usually ask you to upload a receipt to them.

    • scrimshaw on 12/01/2016 - 14:06

      Yeah it wasn't critical at all, I just wanted to know if there was some sort of software that could brute-force read SD cards. I've recovered data before on NTFS hard drives and usually they can still be seen using GetDataBack, and filenames also appear (but usually not always recoverable)

      I've tried a variety of apps and couldn't even detect the SD, it just causes Explorer to hang and crash.
      Didn't have time or knowledge to muck around in Linux either, so I gave it up this morning and posted it back to the vendor (which I worked out was Shopping Square).

      Thanks everyone, cased closed.

      • donnot on 12/01/2016 - 14:17

        I had a Transcend 64G card that my old phone (Xperia Z) killed-unmounted itself and hangs windows explorer whenever inserted. However, after a couple of restarts and luck, I was able to read (no write) the card when inserted into the phone using ES File explorer (any file manager should work). Give that a try.

        Sorry, just realised you've posted it off already. Best of luck.

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