Got a new SD card for my daughters Moto G5. Asked her if she'd backed up her photos from the older smaller SD card (formatted as internal storage) - she said she had. I've now put the new card in her phone only to find she hasn't backed the photos up. If I re-insert the old card the phone now wants to re-format it. I can't find any way to read the old SD card and therefore retrieve the old photos. Anyone got any ideas how I can read the card?
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Trying to read old SD card formatted as Internal storage
- Thread starter Ian Mill
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Thanks. I suspected as much but thought it was worth checking.Unfortunately, Android doesn't save old encryption keys. When you put the new card in the phone, it generated a new key, replacing the old. I'm afraid there's not much that can be done to get those files back.