Help Sd card not being detected

[EzinneNdu]

Ok I really need help restoring lost files... practically in tears at the moment searching for answers online.

I connected my mum's Galaxy Ace to our HP laptop (Windows 7) to upload a video. It was all working fine but the USB cable got disconnected during the process and now:
- The phone doesn't recognise the SD Card at all
- The gallery is completely empty
- The "My files" folder says there's no SD Card

When I try to use the SD Adapter the laptop makes the regular sound that something has been connected but doesn't show a new drive in My Computer

Please if there is ANY WAY this can be fixed I would be eternally grateful!


PS: I have already tried restarting my laptop, my mums phone
PPS: I have made sure not to save any new data onto the SD Card

 

[Rukbat]

Run Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management.

If the card shows up there (when the adapter is plugged into the computer), it's probably going to be an unrecognized file type, which means that something at the beginning of the card got corrupted. (If it's not even recognized there, the card might be shot.)

Download PhotoRec - CGSecurity and burn it to a CD. Start your laptop with that CD (you won't be running Windows). Plug in the card reader and see if PhotoRec czan see the card. If it can, it can recover anything that looks like a file of any type it knows (and if you look on the site you'll see that it knows just about any file type you might have on that card). It doesn't matter what type of storage the card looks like now, PhotoRec is looking at the data on the card for data it recognizes as being part of a file. Save all the files (to the laptop). (This process can take many, many hours, so don't plan on sitting there watching it happen.) When it's all done, restart the laptop without the CD (into Windows) and format the SD card. (You probably won't be able to and will have to replace it. If it's a SanDisk, though, contact them. They might replace it for you.)

Then you can copy all those recovered files to whatever SD card you're using.

BTW, if there are no pictures in internal storage, and the phone can't see the card, there's nothing for Gallery to show. It doesn't have its own storage, it just shows what's on the phone (internal and external).

It's possible that there's a problem with the phone, but if plugging the card, in an adapter, into the laptop doesn't show the card, the card definitely has a problem.