SD card burnt out after rooting tablet?

[cheesy_iron]

Ok, so I FINALLY got my Samsung galaxy tab 4 7" rooted. Its working great, besides my SD card not working anymore. When It rooted, it restarted and all my apps are grayed out and say they aren't installed (I have almost all my apps on my SD card, about 3-4gb worth). So, I begin investigating and plugging my tablet into my pc. My tablet internal memory shows up, but not the SD card. I thought it was just not reading it. So I plug the SD card directly into the card reader on my laptop, still nothing. Finally, I tried a different SD card, and THAT card works.

I think my SD card is dead. My mom and I both have the same model galaxy tab, and she has a samsung 16gb SD card. Im using a Duracell 8gb thats about 5 years old. The funny thing is, neither devices read my card anymore. My SD port isn't broken, since it can read her card.

How can I get my SD card working again? Do I need to reformat it? Also, I luckily made a copy of the whole SD card a couple days ago. So after formatting I can just paste it back on there and everything will be dandy, right? Please help me with this 😛

 

[someguynamedmatt]

Is your SD card showing up in Disk Management? If you go to your start menu and type "Disk Management" into the search bar, a Control Panel entry should show up that says "Create and format hard disk partitions" - if your SD card is being detected by the system at all, it will show up here, even if it's unpartitioned and/or unformatted.

If it is showing up in Disk Management, you should be able to completely wipe all old/invalid partitions off of it (if there are any) and do a complete reformat. If it isn't showing up at all, then I'd say something went wrong and it was damaged somehow, which would be a first in my experience.

Be careful here - don't mark any partitions as 'active' as the system will try to boot from them in the future, instead of where your Windows is installed. Don't accidentally wipe the wrong drive by accident!

 

[cheesy_iron]

Nope, doesn't show up there. I even tried with 2 different micro-SD adapters. Anywhere else I could check? Any other software? The SD card itself doesn't look damaged. Could it have been shocked, somehow?