SD CARD DATA RECOVERY

 

             Causes & symptoms of damaged SD cards

SD cards are usually tucked away discretely in the devices, which makes them less vulnerable to physical damage than USB flash drives. Also, unlike a hard disk drive, SD cards can survive a fall. But this doesn’t mean that SD cards are safe from data loss. These cards may suffer data loss due to several reasons. For instance, an SD card can get damaged due to a power surge when plugged into a device. The other most common causes of data loss from SD cards are-

• Hardware failure
• Accidental deletion of data
• Physical damage to the card
• Accidental formatting
• Data corruption
• Memory wear

          Physical damages & logical failure

SD cards are robust and waterproof. However, improper handling can damage the card. Also, the card may get water-damaged if put in water for a long time. Some of the SD card error messages which indicate a physical failure include-

• SD card is not detected
• SD card is not initialized
• SD card has an unsupported file system
• Damaged SD card, try reformatting
• SD card Is blank
• SD card error “0 bytes”