Help with recovering files from messed up Micro SD Card

[Moonland]

Hi!

I've had a lot of problems with my phone ( i9506 ) for a while now and I think the phone messed up my sdcard somehow and now I can't open it anymore.

The sd card (a Kingston 16GB SDHC class 4) acts weirdly.

- When inserting the card to a phone, it regognizes it and wants to try to format it.
- When inserting the card to a computer It doesn't regonize it and it doesn't pop up in my computer at all.
- When I click on "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" button in the taskbar, nothing happens. If I remove the card the button starts working immediately.
- If the card is already inserted to the computer when powering up. The computer will freeze at the Asus BIOS splash screen.
Everytime I remove the card during boot, it will continue booting but always freeze for the time the card is inserted.
- If I try to open or use the Recuva recovery utility while the card is inserted, the program will freeze.

Just noticed.
- While the card is inserted, I can't for example create new folders in my computer for example in drive E:\ or move files there etc. Immeadiately after I remove the card, all the folders I've tried to create and files tried to move get created and moved. The card basicly just freezes parts of my computer.

Doing stuff with another SD card works fine.

There's some important files on the messed up Micro SD Card that I would really like to have back.
Is there some better recovery software I could try?
What can I do, please help me!

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

All recovery software requires that the storage device has nothing wrong with it and is recognised by the system.
The software is designed to find accidentally deleted files on a device which is in full working order.
Obviously that's not going to work for you.

Files stored on a memory card should be copied to more reliable media as soon as possible, then copied again to a backup location. The memory chips inside the card have become corrupted so it's no longer usable - - bin it.

 

[Moonland]

Yeah I guess you're right about that. Thanks for the reply!

But do you think I could still have a chance?
When I insert the card to my phone, the phone says something like "Blank card inserted" and then asks if I would like to format the card.

I haven't tried this yet.
But let's say I press format and the phone formats the card. Do you think my computer might then regognize the card?
If it did regognize it, would I then be able to try to recover the files with software?

AFTER IT'S BEEN FORMATTED.

Or does formatting the card remove the data permanently?

 

[hang-the-9]

Yeah I guess you're right about that. Thanks for the reply!

But do you think I could still have a chance?
When I insert the card to my phone, the phone says something like "Blank card inserted" and then asks if I would like to format the card.

I haven't tried this yet.
But let's say I press format and the phone formats the card. Do you think my computer might then regognize the card?
If it did regognize it, would I then be able to try to recover the files with software?

AFTER IT'S BEEN FORMATTED.

Or does formatting the card remove the data permanently?

You can format and have a chance to recover, but in your case that may not help. If you formatted a card that was working, then you can try a recovery software, but your card looks to be not working on a physical level. The formatting message may be coming not because it can't read the file system but because the card has a physical error and the phone does not know what is going on, and it just saying "I need to format this thing".