Summary

This page includes reliable methods to assist you repairing corrupted SD card, making it to work again without losing data. First, use EaseUS file recovery software to scan and restore data from the corrupted card. Next, follow provided methods to repair and make the SD card work again.

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Most times, you cannot open your SD card and access your data when the card gets damaged or corrupted. The disaster happens now and then.

If you have been caught by this issue, and are looking for a way to repair the corrupted SD card and rescue your data, relax. This page includes reliable solutions to help you perform SD card recovery, restoring valuable files and making the device work again.

Preparations

Before taking measures to recover a corrupted SD card, here are some preparations that you should do:

• Don't format or erase the card
• Confirm if the SD card is corrupted or damaged

For damaged SD card: If the SD card is physically damaged, follow the link to perform damaged SD card recovery.

For corrupted or inaccessible SD card: Insert the card into your computer or change an SD card reader or another computer to check if the SD card shows up.

If it doesn't appear, refer to SD card not showing up for further help. If it appears, you are having a corrupted card, and try the following methods to fix this issue without losing data.

Part 1. Make a Corrupted SD Card Accessible/Detected

To repair the corrupted SD card, you should first make it detectable and accessible. Follow the tips here for help:

# 1. Change the SD card drive letter

• Step 1: Insert the SD card to your computer, go to Disk Management.
• Step 2: Right-click on the SD card and select 'Change drive letter and path...'.
• Step 3: Set a new drive letter for the card.

When the process finishes, you can check if you can access it again.

# 2. Check and repair file system error on SD card

• Step 1: Insert the corrupted SD card into your PC using a card reader.
• Step 2: Click on the 'Start' button, select the 'Computer' option.
• Search for your SD card under 'Devices with Removable Storage' and note the assigned drive letter.
• Step 3: Click on the 'Start' button, in the search box, type 'cmd'.
• Step 4: Right-click 'cmd.exe' and then select the 'Run as administrator' option.
• Step 5: Type the command: chkdsk [sd card drive letter]: /f /r /x and press enter.

Chkdsk will start to check and fix any possible errors on the corrupted SD card and make it readable again.

# 3. Update SD card driver

• Step 1: Connect the corrupted SD card to PC, right-click on This PC/My Computer, select 'Manage'.
• Step 2: Click 'Device Manager' and expand 'Disk drivers'.
• Step 3: Right-click on the SD card, select 'Update driver'.
• Step 4: Click 'Automatically search for driver software online' and wait for the process to complete.

Part 2. Recover Data from Corrupted SD Card

After making the SD card accessible, you can try EaseUS disk data recovery software to retrieve your files in only 3 steps.

Stop using your SD card immediately once you lost files on it. Continuing using the card would hugely increase the chance of data overwriting, which makes data unrecoverable.

Step 1: Connect the SD card to PC

Insert the SD card to a card reader, and connect the card reader with your SD card to a healthy computer.

Step 2: Run SD card recovery software and scan the card.

• Launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard on your PC and select your SD card under theExternal Devices column.
• Then click Scan to start finding lost data on your SD card now.

Step 3: Check found SD card data.

After the scanning process, you can preview and find your lost SD card files from below listed tabs:

• Deleted Files: List your deleted files there.
• Drive X: All lost files can be found here.
• Lost Partition Files: Check first if it's for formatted recovery.
• Extra Files: Finds files that lost names or paths.

And you can use Filter and Search to quickly find your files.

Step 4: Restore SD card data.

• You can check and preview found files by double-clicking each one of them.
• Then click Recover to save found SD card files to a secure location on your PC or an external storage.

Don't save the restored data to the card before making it useable again.

Part 3. Format SD Card to FAT32

After a successful corrupted SD card data recovery, move to format the SD card to make it work properly again. It's easy!

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• Step 1: Keep the SD card connected to your PC.
• Right-click on This PC/My Computer, select 'Manage'.
• Step 2: Click 'Disk Management', locate and right-click the SD card, then choose 'Format'.
• Step 3: Select FAT32 as the file system for the SD card and click 'OK' to confirm.

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After this, the SD card is available for you to save the files restored files and new data again.