SD Card stopped connecting

HarryLong

For some inexplicably reason my SanDisk SD micro card has stooped connecting. I have tried it on both my Samsung tablet and PC. Is there any way I can recover the data from my SD card or get the original functioning again.Any suggestion will be very helpful, otherwise I will have lost all my music and some data.

Norman_Castle

Try cleaning the brass connecting pins.

ThirdThoughts

I am experiencing the same problem.I have over 1500 tracks of music on my micro SD card which I don not want to lose. Do I need to purchase cotton swabs with alcohol to clean or do I require something else. If that does not work what is the next step to try.

googler

HarryLong wrote: »

I have tried it on both my Samsung tablet and PC. Is there any way I can recover the data from my SD card or get the original functioning again.Any suggestion will be very helpful, otherwise I will have lost all my music and some data.

Try it on as many different devices as you can.
Clean the contacts.

In future, I recommend you keep your music and data on multiple drives, not just on one very fragile SD card ... that way if one drive fails, you don't lose it, you just lose one copy of it.

googler

ThirdThoughts wrote: »

I am experiencing the same problem.I have over 1500 tracks of music on my micro SD card which I don not want to lose. Do I need to purchase cotton swabs with alcohol to clean or do I require something else. If that does not work what is the next step to try.

Cotton swabs or similar, appropriate to the size of the contacts.
Use Isopropyl Alcohol, usually found in bottles of tape head cleaning fluid from audio suppliers.

Try the card in as many different devices as you can get access to.


In future, I recommend you keep your music and data on multiple drives, not just on one very fragile SD card ... that way if one drive fails, you don't lose it, you just lose one copy of it.

googler

For Micro SD cards, try reading them directly in a device, and alternatively within a full-size adaptor, and thereby in a different card reader.

ThirdThoughts

is Surgical spirit OK to clean the brass connecting plates or do I specifically require Isopropyl alcohol. If the latter does it comes in small quantities as I would not have much other use for it. will chemists sell or is only audio suppliers. Maybe Currys.

stragglebod

Doesn't surgical spirit contain oil to stop the skin drying out?

I wouldn't want that on electronics.

99% isopropyl alcohol is cheap enough anyway, about £5 a litre off ebay.

googler

ThirdThoughts wrote: »

is Surgical spirit OK to clean the brass connecting plates or do I specifically require Isopropyl alcohol. If the latter does it comes in small quantities as I would not have much other use for it. will chemists sell or is only audio suppliers. Maybe Currys.

Audio suppliers, or Currys, Wilko, Asda, Tesco, PC World, etc

Look for a tape head or VHS cleaning kit with a bottle of cleaning fluid. 99.9% probability that will have Iso Alcohol.

Like this

Or a switch cleaner like Servisol