Repair SDXC card 128GB that showing 31MB capacity, without losing data
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Repair SDXC card 128GB that showing 31MB capacity, without losing data
Hi
Howto repair SDXC card 128GB that showing only 31MB capacity, without losing data, bacause I don't have any backup of the photos.
It seems the partition table is gone.
Hi
Howto repair SDXC card 128GB that showing only 31MB capacity, without losing data, bacause I don't have any backup of the photos.
It seems the partition table is gone.
If your data is valuable, you need to back it up. Either copy off what you CAN copy off before trying recovery, or make peace with the fact you may lose everything. Your choice.
Run testdisk/photorec on it, and it may be able to help, providing that the partition table is all that's wrong with it. Those cards don't last forever.
Thx, but what's the best way is the best way to clone the whole SD, before I will do anything?
Should I use dd command?
You've been here many years now, and have been directed to the LQ Rules previously about text-speak, and not using it. Please don't. You can try to use dd to do it, or just mount it and copy the files off, if you can at least mount that 'seeable' space.
Strange, I've done a clone of the whole SD /dev/sdc using dd, but the image is just 31MB. It should be much more, because the 128GB SDCX was full of photos.
I have already tried testdisk, photorec and recoverjpeg, but those tools cannot find anything.
Distribution: Debian testing/sid; OpenSuSE; Fedora; Mint
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The operating system must only see 31 MB. You can try foremost. It requires only the device node as a recover from argument, not a mount point. The controllers on USB drives aren't very good. You might be able to save the drive by writing zeroes to it a few times. I've also found that off-brand flash drives all fail!
If the media is a microSD card in a USB reader, you could try a different reader.
Thx a lot, I have tried different card readers and foremost, but cannot find any data.
If I put sd card to the reader it gets very hot, perhaps the card controller is damaged.
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