I have all of my music on my storage card. Today all that music seems to be gone and I can't access the storage card. My s8 phone doesn't even recognize that a storage card is present, let alone has anything on it. From some things I've read on the internet, this is a pretty common problem. Has this happened to anybody here and if so how did you deal with it?
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Storage Card can't be read
- Thread starter TopekaRev
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Vernon27
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It appears that the sd-card has died. Have u tried inserting the card (using the adapter) into a computer and see it can be read. If it can I would strongly recommend copying the data off the card and onto a computer and purchase a new card.
Last year (2018) I had the same issue; my sd-card that I had for 8 years could not be read by my S8+. I removed the card and inserted it into a computer and the computer was able to read the card but it was unstable. I copied my data of the card and after doing that I destroyed the card after purchasing a new.
Unfortunately, sd-cards die when u least expect them to.
Last year (2018) I had the same issue; my sd-card that I had for 8 years could not be read by my S8+. I removed the card and inserted it into a computer and the computer was able to read the card but it was unstable. I copied my data of the card and after doing that I destroyed the card after purchasing a new.
Unfortunately, sd-cards die when u least expect them to.
Yes, that's exactly what I would do: remove it from the phone, stick it in a card reader, attach to a computer and see whether I could read it there. There will also be a wider range of file recovery utilities on a computer if it comes to that.
I had a < 6 month old, lightly-used Samsung microSD suffer a master boot record failure a few years back. I managed to recover most of the data off it that way, but the card was junk (repaired it once, but it failed again within a few minutes in the tablet). This can happen with the things - as said above, never keep your only copy of something important on one of these things.
I had a < 6 month old, lightly-used Samsung microSD suffer a master boot record failure a few years back. I managed to recover most of the data off it that way, but the card was junk (repaired it once, but it failed again within a few minutes in the tablet). This can happen with the things - as said above, never keep your only copy of something important on one of these things.