Check SD card for corruption

oldwiring

A friend of my wife found that all the items on her SD card had vanished, but she neither recalls deleting them nor formatting the card.

I have recovered them using Recuva, but when I first tried to open the card to view the files, there was a message that the card may have been corrupted.

When sending her a DVD-R of the recovered files, I would like to be able to advise her if the card is suitable for reuse.

Can anyone tell me how I might do this without cost? Thanks in anticipation.

totalsolutions

If you have fully recovered the files, just reformat the SD card and see if its OK. Someone may have deleted the files, passed through a scanner, sat on it, overheated it in sunshine or a sun spot could have damaged it, even removing it from a PC might do the same. Advise safe withdrawal. Might be a clone SD 4Gb sold as 8Gb on ebay.

Savvy_Spender_South

Re format the card one it has been fully recovered. Spend a little while testing it, drag and drop a couple of files, and lift off again etc to be sure it appeasr ok.

I would say though that with SD Cards starting at £5 (and TESCO doing 3 for 2) is it really essential she takes the risk of losing data again on this specific card?

oldwiring

Savvy_Spender_South wrote: »

Re format the card one it has been fully recovered. Spend a little while testing it, drag and drop a couple of files, and lift off again etc to be sure it appeasr ok.

I would say though that with SD Cards starting at £5 (and TESCO doing 3 for 2) is it really essential she takes the risk of losing data again on this specific card?

I thought along same lines and will tell her

oldwiring

totalsolutions wrote: »

If you have fully recovered the files, just reformat the SD card and see if its OK. Someone may have deleted the files, passed through a scanner, sat on it, overheated it in sunshine or a sun spot could have damaged it, even removing it from a PC might do the same. Advise safe withdrawal. Might be a clone SD 4Gb sold as 8Gb on ebay.

Brian not fully functional, so not sure what you mean by safe withdrawal.

Not a 4 gig masquerading, but unknown make to me...Klick- photoprint.