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Help Encrypted SD card on S5 - stuck on "checking for errors"

arsalan17

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I had enabled SD card encryption on my Galaxy S5 a few days back which went perfectly fine but as soon as I restarted my phone yesterday, the SD card went inaccessible. For the last 24 hours it is showing "encrypting SD card" and "checking for errors" messages in the notification. It's a Kingston 32 GB class 4 card and has important data that I'd like to get access back to. I can't even use it in another device now to copy data because I have encrypted it. Formatting it would mean I loose all my data. Any suggestions please?
 

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Pop the card in a card reader and connect to PC. Right click the ne w drive properties>tools>error checking. Run this and hopefully it will repair the file system but retain your data. I haven't tried with an encrypted SD card so I can't confirm this will work.
 
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