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Help I did a stupid, stupid thing....

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Lord Balthazar

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A friend of mine wanted an mp3 I had made and was using as my ringtone. Not thinking, I pulled out my micro SD and gave it to her so she could copy the mp3 to her phone (A Samsung Gravity). She put it in her phone and said she couldn't find the song, so I took it back and when I put it back in my phone all of my music, pics and vids were gone. Here's the odd part. I have the 16GB Micro SD card that came with my phone (a Droid 1 non-rooted), however, it is reporting that it only has 237kb total space on it with 0kb free. I noticed that there were many more folders than there were before, so Im guessing the Gravity added it's own stuff. However, all of the folders are completely empty. There is one folder with six 1kb files in it, but that's it. I don't have files hidden, and I tried viewing system files. I even tried taking the card out of my phone and putting it into a USB adapter so I could view it directly (not through my phone) on my PC, it showed the same. This part is even more odd; When I open Disk Management, it shows that the card (now labeled KFAT1) has 1 partition of 14.94GB and it is the Healthy Primary Partition. But even when I right-click the partition in Disk Management and view the properties it still shows as having a total of 237kb space. I am hoping my stuff is still somewhere on the card and I can get it back, if not, I need to know how to get access back to my entire card. Because right now, even though everything is being reported as empty, when I try to take a pic or copy a file over, it's saying that the card is full. I also read somewhere, where Windows cannot view multiple partitions on SD cards but MACs can. I tried viewing the card on a friend's mac (via the USB adapter), but all he could see was the main partition that I can see on my PC, is there a trick to seeing the multiple partition on the mac?
 
Hmm. That is weird. However, it would not surprise me that when she put it in her phone it tried to do something stupid and messed up the FAT (File Allocation Table) on the card. That could be the reason that it is both reporting the wrong size of the partition as well as showing that there is no space.

In Windows (and *nix too, IIRC) you should be able to scan the card and have the FAT checked - in Windows, open a command prompt and try running
Code: 
CHKDSK
and see what it reports. If you can find a utility to make a bit by bit copy of the physical medium itself, that would be helpful - maybe you can get it to recognize that there really is data on the SDCard. You could also try to use various undelete utilities to see if it can find the data on the drive (most times even a format will not completely erase the contents of magnetic media, so you might be able to pull info off the SDCard). Give Pandora recovery or else Piriform's Recuva a shot.

Regardless of what anyone else says, though, don't perform a
Code: 
CHKDSK /f
before at least trying the undelete programs. CHKDSK by itself will not fix things unless you tell it to - and if it asks, don't - not yet. CHKDSK /f will do it automatically without asking.
 
ok, well I ran the chkdsk on my phone, and here's what it said:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001] Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
F:\>chkdsk
The type of the file system is FAT.
The volume is in use by another process. Chkdsk
might report errors when no corruption is present.
Volume KFAT1 created 12/11/2010 6:30 PM
Volume Serial Number is 0000-CCCC
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

237,568 bytes total disk space.
8,192 bytes in 1 hidden files.
180,224 bytes in 22 folders.
49,152 bytes in 10 files.
0 bytes available on disk.
8,192 bytes in each allocation unit.
29 total allocation units on disk.
0 allocation units available on disk.

F:\>
 
Ok, well I was able to use Active Undelete to go in and scan my Micro SD and recover about 98% of my files :). I am going to try a few more times and see if I can get the "corrupted" files to copy. Thanks a ton.
 
Good deal. After this make sure you format the card, and make sure you do not do a quick format - do a complete format

It may even fail a time or two - keep running the full format until it works.
 
hey how did fix it because im having the samee problem and ive been searching for a solution but im having now luck please help me???
 
Lol, I know this thread is old and OP prolly isn't checking anymore. But you could have just Bluetoothed her the .mp3 file. I just sent about 10-15 tones to my bro this way.

Speedy, did you try Active Undelete like the OP did? I would try that. If it doesn't work, then you're pretty much screwed since flash media is nothing like magnetic media/drives so recovering data is an all or nothing issue.
 
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