Memory Card/PC help needed please

Minky_2

Hi. I’m hoping for some help with a damaged/corrupt memory card. Not sure how its become this way only that I may have removed it too early from the device before it had finished writing to it.

I’ve put it in a USB card reader but it isn’t recognised – basically invisible. The USB reader appears as a drive as ‘Removable disk’ but asks me to insert a disc when the memory card is already in it. This is also true when inserting the card directly into the laptop reader.
I know it’s the card at fault as other memory cards appear fine. I’ve downloaded recovery programs for the card but obviously can’t run them against the card as my laptop doesn’t even recognise there is a card there.

My IT expertise is very limited but I have renamed the letter drive to see if there was a conflict but still no joy. I’ve tried TestDisk and PhotoRec but again the card is still not recognised.

Gone into Disc Management and it shows the drive but also shows No media underneath it.

I’d love to give it up as a bad lot but the 300+ photos I have on this card have to be retrieved somehow as they are irreplaceable.

Failing any PC related solution, are there any companies that could take the card apart and retrieve the data by more intense means than the resource I have available?

All help greatly appreciated

hotkee

There are ways to do this but its not easy solution - if the laptop doesn't reconogise it, you might have to try a different machine or an external card reader for a start. Still no guarantee - if its damaged well you have lost the data completely.

crampo_2

Theres a program called "GetdataBack". Its Free to Download , and it bring all your data back , but to copy from corrupt drives to a active drive, You have to pay for the full version. I Use this on alot of corrupt drives that i get.
http://www.runtime.org/.

You could also try Active Recovery.
http://www.file-recovery.net/

Bowling_4_Gold

My suggestion is this: While in the card reader, put the card in, check if you can open it on the computer and if not, pull it out and do it again. Keep doing this until (or if) you can open the folder and as soon as you can, copy all the data to your computer and replace the card. This technique is not particularly brilliant and scientific, but it does work sometimes (for me anyway). HTH