Phone SD card is corrupted/damaged or can’t be read, then you can’t access the data on your phone. How to easily fix my phone SD and recover my lost data? You can check the 5 ways in this tutorial to repair (Android) phone SD card without data loss, and get back data from SD card in 3 simple steps.
Have you ever encountered these problems about “fix my phone SD” issue?
- Why is my phone not reading my SD card?
- How do I fix corrupted micro SD card Android?
- How can I repair my SD card without formatting?
- How can I recover my corrupted SD card?
SD card is small, with fast data read and write speeds and high storage capacities. It is widely used in Android phones, digital cameras, camcorders, music players, and many other portable devices.
If the SD card is corrupted, damaged or formatted, then your precious photos, videos and other data on the SD card will be lost.
Check below the 5 fixes for how to fix my phone SD issue. Method four allows you to fix phone SD card and recover all lost data from corrupted phone SD, formatted SD card or other SD card error situations.
All the phone SD card repair and recovery guides in this post are also suitable for fixing SD cards on cameras or other devices.
Way 1. Fix My Phone SD by Checking and Fixing Errors
The first easy and free way to fix corrupted SD card is to use Windows built-in Drive Error Checking tool. The detailed steps are listed below.
Step 1. Connect SD Card with PC
You can firstly insert the SD card into a USB SD card reader, and then plug it into a USB port of your Windows 10/8/7 PC.
Step 2. Locate the SD card and Open Its Properties
Then you can click This PC and right-click the target SD card. Click Properties option to open the SD card property window.
Step 3. Check and Fix My Phone SD Card Errors
Click Tools option and click Check button under Error checking, and the computer will automatically check the SD card for file system errors.
After the phone SD card scan and fix process is finished, you can check again if you can normally access the data on the SD card.
Way 2. Fix My Phone SD with CMD
Another popular way to repair corrupted SD card is to use CHKDSK command line. It can find and fix errors as well as bad sectors on the target phone SD card. Check how to repair Android SD card with cmd below.
Step 1. Connect Phone SD Card with Computer
Use a card reader to connect the corrupted phone SD card to PC. (related: Fix USB Keepings Disconnecting)
Step 2. Confirm the SD Card Drive Letter on PC
After the computer recognizes the connected SD card, then click This PC to find what the connected SD card drive letter is.
Step 3. Open Windows CMD Utility
Next you can press Windows and R keys on the keyboard, and input cmd in the RUN window, then press Enter, to open the Command Prompt window.
Step 4. Run CHKDSK to Check and Fix Phone SD Card Errors
Finally, you can type this command line: chkdsk g: /f /r, and hit Enter. g refers to the specific SD card drive letter your computer assigns to it. Be careful with the space in this command line and do not miss it.
This should be able to check and fix the possible errors on the corrupted SD card. After the process is finished, you can check if the phone SD card data can be accessed and if the SD can work normally.
Way 3. Update Device Driver
The Android Phone SD card can’t be read issue may be caused by driver incompatibility. You can update or reinstall the device driver to have a try.
Step 1. Open Device Manager on PC
You can connect SD card with PC, and right-click This PC on computer and choose Properties. Then you need to click Device Manager in the left column.
Step 2. Update SD Card Device Driver
Click Disk Drives and find the phone SD card storage device. Right-click it and click Update driver.
Then you can eject the phone SD card, restart the PC, and connect the phone SD card to computer again to see if the Android SD card can be read now.
Way 4. Fix My Phone SD without Data Loss
SD card is corrupted, not accessible/readable, or needs formatting? Learn how to easily fix corrupted SD card and recover data from (Android) phone SD card in 3 simple steps.
MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free is a 100% clean and free SD card recovery program compatible with Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP. Unless the Android phone SD card is physically damaged, you can use this software to easily restore data from corrupted, formatted, inaccessible phone SD card with ease.
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Step 1. Select the Phone SD Card to Scan
After the phone SD card is successfully connected and detected on PC, you can launch MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free.
Then click Removable Disk Drive and choose the phone SD card device, and click Scan button. This smart SD card repair software will start scanning the chosen (Android) phone SD card.
Step 2. Find and Select the Needed Files
After the scan finishes, you can browse the scan result to find and check your needed files.
You can click Show Lost Files to only display the lost files on phone SD.
To quickly find needed files, you can also click Find to search the target file by name.
By clicking the Filter option, you can narrow the range of file searching so as to quickly find your needed files to recover. Namely, you can filter the file scan result by file extension, size, date, etc.
Step 3. Restore Wanted Files in SD Card
After you’ve found and ticked all the files that need to recover, you can hit Save button to store the files to a new destination folder, a computer folder or external storage device.
Please do not save the recovered SD card files to the original SD card, because this will cause data overwriting and permanent data loss on the phone SD.
After you get back all important data on your phone SD memory card, you can then freely format the phone SD and normally use it again. As for how to format SD card, you can check the detailed guide in Way 5.
Way 5. How to Format SD Card on Windows 10 or Mac
After you’ve recovered data from phone SD card, you can further format the SD card for reuse if you can’t fix corrupted SD card with whatever way. Below we introduce several free ways to help you format SD card on Windows 10 or Mac with ease.
How to Format SD Card on Windows 10/8/7 with MiniTool Partition Wizard
MiniTool Partition Wizard Free, this best SD card formatter software enables you to easily format SD card (corrupted or write protected) to FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, FAT12/16, ext2/3/4, etc. for free.
Get MiniTool Partition Wizard Free and follow the easy guide below to format phone SD card for free.
- Use SD card reader to connect the corrupted Android phone SD card with PC. And launch MiniTool Partition Wizard Free.
- Right-click the target phone SD card volume and click Format Partition. Then you can choose the file system for the SD card, you can choose to format SD card to FAT32 or another file system.
- Finally, hit Apply button to start formatting the corrupted phone SD card.
How to Format Corrupted SD Card on Windows 10/8/7 Using CMD
You can also format the SD card, corrupted or write protected, by using cmd. At the beginning, make sure you’ve connected SD card with PC.
Then click Windows + R, and input cmd, then type diskpart and press Enter to open Windows CMD utility. The full set of command lines are listed below for formatting phone SD card to FAT32. * means the exact the number of the target disk or partition.
- list disk
- select disk *
- list partition
- select partition *
- format fs=fat32 quick
- exit
How to Format SD Card on Windows 10/8/7 with Disk Management
You can also use Windows Disk Management to format corrupted SD card. Check the steps below.
- Press Windows + R. Type msc in the search box.
- Right-click the target removable SD card device and click Format.
- Specify a volume label, file system like FAT32, and tick Perform a quick format. Click OK.
How to Format SD Card on Mac
Use SD card reader to connect the corrupted SD card with your Mac computer. Still, you need to first copy all your important data on the SD card to another device, because formatting SD card will erase all data on it. If you can’t access the SD card and copy the data, you can use the best data recovery software to recover data beforehand.
- Click the magnifying glass icon on the top-right corner of Mac screen. Type Disk Utility and press Return
- Click the SD card in the left column, and click Erase
- Select the format for the phone SD card in the pop-up window. And click Erase.
- Click Erase button to delete all data on the SD card and format SD card to FAT32 or exFAT.
Fix My Phone SD – How to Recover Data from iPhone
iPhone doesn’t have an SD card slot and equips non-removable internal memory. What if you suffer data loss in iOS devices? How to restore data from iPhone? The best iPhone data recovery software – MiniTool Mobile Recovery for iOS Free – is your choice.
This tool can easily recover data, photos, contacts, SMS, notes, and more from iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch in 3 steps under various iPhone data loss situations: accidental deletion, system crash, virus attack, jailbreak failure, etc.
Bottom Line
By checking the 5 ways for “fix my phone SD” issue, as well as the ultimate free SD card data recovery guide, hope you can now fix corrupted SD card without data loss.
With MiniTool Power Data Recovery, you can easily recover deleted files and lost data from corrupted or formatted SD card, computer hard drive, external HDD, SSD, USB drive, and more in 3 simple steps.
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