Help SD Card suddenly "failed to mount"

[Random Kiwi]

What's the go here, I've had a 32Gb Sandisk SD card for months and months, using it for photos, apps, music storage...all of a sudden this morning it's "failing to mount"...I've turned phone off, back on, everything was fine for about an hour, bang, "SD Card failed to mount" and if I click to notification, it wants for FORMAT the card...which one would assume will wipe all my photos and stuff.

Any clues on a fix on this which doesn't involve losing all my photos of my recent trip to New York?!?!?

 

[aceowner]

Same here, on a SGS2. Lucky for me, my laptop still recognize the card and I've manage to save all content, but the card no longer works on smartphone (even after a format done on laptop).

 

[Random Kiwi]

Hmmm...just checked, and I had previously copied the holiday photos off it, thank god! So it's just added music...even the laptop doesn't seem to recognise it, E: appears as an option, click on it and it says "insert USB drive"

Phone now says the SD card is blank, boo, looks like is' just crapped out...only haad it 2 months! Less than impressed! :|

 

[wendolene26]

I've had a similar issue just this weekend. SD card that I had in my HTC and moved it to my Samsung Galaxy S2. Had the S2 about a week and then the phone reports "blank or incorrect format SD Card". This has coincided with me using a non standard Samsung extra capacity battery in my phone so I assumed that was the culprit. My laptop doesn't even think there's an SD card when I try to get the data from it.

Now it seems not only am I going to have to backup the data on my phone (of which there is normally minimal) but also the data on the SD card.

 

[Random Kiwi]

Deft seems like my SD card just up and died...PC doesn't recognise it, phone says it's blank/unsupported and I need to format it, so I go into the menu's to do that, it goes "preparing card...card is blank/unsupported, please format" looping the ****ing loop around and around

DUMB! Probably wasn't ever a Sandisk one, but some cheap knock off like happens on eBay...guess I'll look into an actual Samsung one and hope for more reliability