Sd Card Error - Cannot Access Files

Discussion in 'Smartphones and Tablets - Hardware' started by metaletty, Oct 23, 2019.

  1. metaletty

    metaletty Private E-2

    Hi guys.

    I’m having a problem with my SD card. Notifications of “Preparing SD card” and “SD card removed” keep popping up repeatedly (milliseconds apart) and all my data has disappeared. I have a Samsung Galaxy A3 and a 32GB Samsung Evo+ Micro SDHC Class 10 memory card, which I’ve had for about 2 years now. No physical damage to the SD card, looks brand new as I haven’t touched it since putting it into my phone. I’ve turned my phone off and on, rebooted it, restarted it, dusted the card, inserted it into a different phone but the same thing happens. I’ve also tried connecting my phone to a laptop to view folders on the card but it only picks up the phone’s internal memory, if I try to connect the card directly to the laptop with an adapter I get an error saying “Please insert disk into a Secure Digital storage device”. I’m not the most tech savvy person so I have no idea how to access the card at this point. Almost every forum I’ve searched says to format the card, but I couldn’t care less about the card itself. I have 10 years’ worth of files on it that I need to get access to. I just want to copy the info elsewhere and scrap this card. Lord knows I’m gonna make 50 copies of everything after this. Any help to access the info on the card would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
    Preparing SD card notification.png SD card removed notification.png SD card.jpg Error reading SD card.png
     
    metaletty, Oct 23, 2019
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  2. Eldon

    Eldon Major Geek Extraordinaire

    Try the card in another phone.
     
    Eldon, Oct 24, 2019
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  3. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    Also posted here
    https://forums.techguy.org/threads/“preparing-sd-card”-and-“sd-card-removed”-error.1234637/

    Most of us have learned the hard way, by losing files, to always have at least 2 copies of every file on multiple storage devices. It's a hard lesson but people don't listen when you tell them to backup and copy files elsewhere. Only after files are lost do they listen and then tell others to backup and offload files.

    Unfortunately, I think the card is gone and so are your files. No way should you store 10 years worth of files on just that one card!

    My sd card has my pictures. I regularly attach the phone to a computer and copy the pictures to the computer. I also then copy the pictures to a USB stick. If I really don't want to lose a picture, I'll also burn it to a data CD.
     
    plodr, Oct 24, 2019
    #3

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