Question Need to recover data from corrupted SD card

captaincandellight

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I have quite a few photographs and short videos on a corrupted SD card which I have to recover. When I insert the SD card in the card reader I get the error message from Windows taskbar notifications that says - "There's a problem with this drive. Scan the drive now and fix it". I still can enter and see the SD card contents and folders. But when I double click a photograph to view it Windows photo viewer cannot open it. I am insted presented with a black blank screen. Also I am unable to copy the photographs to my computer. While trying to copy them to my computer and after bypassing the error messages I can see the copied file on my computers folder before it disappears within a few minutes. When I try to copy them to my computer I get the following error messages -

a) "Can't read from the source file or disk".
b) "An error occured applying attributes to the file" - "The system cannot find the file specified".

I am also attaching images of the errors received while accessing, copying contents from SD card and showing that I can still open and see the contents inside -

SD-card-error-1.png
SD-card-error-2.png
SD-card-error-3.png
SD-card-contents-1.png
SD-card-copied-file-to-computer.png
 
Will the current card reader read other cards and files?

Do you have another known working card reader?

Also:

Open the Disk Management window and expand so all can be seen.

Take a screenshot and post accordingly.

I am wondering about the double "Drive E:" in the 3rd screen....