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Is it possible to recover files from corrupted sd card?
Before you recovering files from corrupted sd card, if you realize your SD card is corrupted, stop using it immediately! I made the mistake of trying to save new files on it, thinking that might "fix" things. Spoiler alert: it didn’t. Instead, it made recovery way harder. Just take it out and don’t touch it until you’re ready to recover files.
You’ll need some solid software to help you get your files back. I’ve tried a few programs, finally I recovered all my files with this tool, thank goodness.
Source: https://www.howtogeek.com/recover-files-from-corrupted-sd-card
Highly recommend you try it!
Almost the exact same thing happened with me with an SD card. First thing, don’t format it yet. That part you’re right about.
Also I’d avoid running chkdsk again. I tried that early on and it didn’t really help, just made things messier.
What worked for me was skipping the “repair the card” step and just scanning it with a recovery tool and pulling the files out to my PC. You lose folder structure sometimes, but the photos & videos themselves were mostly fine.
One thing to keep in mind, though, a few of my recovered photos came back corrupted (they wouldn’t open or had gray areas). For those, I used Stellar Repair for Photo & managed to fix a good chunk of the damaged ones.
If your card is still getting detected in Windows, you’ve got a decent chance. Just recover everything first to another drive, then worry about fixing the card later.