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FAT Folder Damage the SD Card
Have you ever damaged your SD card? For example, it may be destroyed when you built a new folder, FAT. Then what would you do to fix it? The emergent issue must be to restore the lost files and folders have saved on it if that information is important and useful for you. But how, how to retrieve them successfully? This kind of question may have troubled you for a long period. But you don't need to worry so much because data recovery software could assist you get the lost data back quickly.
Case of SD card destroyed by FAT folder
I intended to set up a new FAT folder on my SD card few days ago and I did it eventually. But all information has gone when I insert it to my phone later. So I plugged it out of my phone and connect it to the computer to check, but there is still nothing I could view on the computer according to much trial. What should I do if I want to retrieve all the lost data? I believe that there must be some ways to solve my problem. And please help me. – Moan from New Jersey
How to fix the damaged SD card to retrieve the lost data by data recovery software
The main purpose of fixing the destroyed SD card is to restore data lost from it. So data recovery software is helpful on this condition. And you should start the recovery procedure step by step as follows:
Recover data from sd card
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Connect the SD card to your computer. Then, launch the software and select a recovery module.
Other ways that could damage the SD card causing data loss
SD card is fragile to a certain extent, so it may be destroyed easily. What you should do is to protect it from damaging. Here are some common SD card damaged scenarios as follows:
1. Broke down by heat, striking or corrosion liquid.
2. Infected by virus and worms and SD card shows RAW file system
3. Abrupt removal from computer or other digital devices.
4. Power failure of devices which connected to the SD card.
5. SD card was broke off.
Data corruption that could be restored by data recovery software
Generally there are two kind of data corruption happen to memory card such as SD card.
1. Physical corruption. This kind of data corruption happens when the flash chips on the memory card was damaged, like memory card was striking, corroded or broke.
2. Logical corruption. This is a common kind of data corruption situation. It happens when virus and worms infection, unsafe removal and other similar situations.
Typically, data recovery software could retrieve all kind of logical corruption but can not repair the physical corruption.
Some knowledge about FAT folder
FAT is one kind of file format whose organization and management of the file for MS-DOS and other Windows operating system. And FAT folder is a folder in which files are FAT format, which is a kind of system error. There are many formats of files including FAT, such as FAT32, FAT16, NTFS, and so on. What's more, there is raw system, too. Each file format has different properties and you could convert your files and folders to any one of them based on your own need.
Usually, you can convert RAW SD card to FAT file system by formatting the SD card when data has been recovered successfully.
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