RE: Samsung Galaxy SIII
(new to the forum; first time post)
I have a 32gb Patriot Micro SD card in my phone.
Last night I the card was fine; (viewed pics and listened to music)
Last night the phone says the card is damaged. (Nothing was modified in the card and phone was not dropped, etc.)
I connected the phone (with card installed) to my Windows 7 laptop and all that shows up in Windows Explorer is the "phone" and not the "phone and card".
I downloaded "SDCardTester" from the Google store and ran it on the phone.
This program read, write and verifed a 9gb file and a 440mb file to the card and all test tasks were flagged as successful by the app.
...so the card can in fact be seen, be read from, as well as written to.
This tells me that there is a bad file or files rendering the card "unreadable" to other Android apps as well as Windows Explorer.
After the SDCardTester app was run with the card in the phone, I took the card out and put it in a stand alone reader and connected the reader to the Win7 laptop. result: Windows Explorer still does not list the card as a "removeable drive".
I found a free Windows utility online that checked my card and showed some files in preview mode. After the check was done, to recover the previwed files, the vendor wanted $60 for the software.
Money is extremely tight. Is there any utility out there that is *truly* free that will recover the good files from my card and be able to save those recovered files to the laptop?
Thank you for your assistance. I appreciate it.
(new to the forum; first time post)
I have a 32gb Patriot Micro SD card in my phone.
Last night I the card was fine; (viewed pics and listened to music)
Last night the phone says the card is damaged. (Nothing was modified in the card and phone was not dropped, etc.)
I connected the phone (with card installed) to my Windows 7 laptop and all that shows up in Windows Explorer is the "phone" and not the "phone and card".
I downloaded "SDCardTester" from the Google store and ran it on the phone.
This program read, write and verifed a 9gb file and a 440mb file to the card and all test tasks were flagged as successful by the app.
...so the card can in fact be seen, be read from, as well as written to.
This tells me that there is a bad file or files rendering the card "unreadable" to other Android apps as well as Windows Explorer.
After the SDCardTester app was run with the card in the phone, I took the card out and put it in a stand alone reader and connected the reader to the Win7 laptop. result: Windows Explorer still does not list the card as a "removeable drive".
I found a free Windows utility online that checked my card and showed some files in preview mode. After the check was done, to recover the previwed files, the vendor wanted $60 for the software.
Money is extremely tight. Is there any utility out there that is *truly* free that will recover the good files from my card and be able to save those recovered files to the laptop?
Thank you for your assistance. I appreciate it.
