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SD Card Not Recognized

SD card not recognized, how to access inside data? Similar questions are popped time and time again. Now, we have the affirmative answer for you: data recovery software can make your unrecognized SD card accessible again. In other words, the data recovery program is able to recover the data from a SD card unrecognized and make it intelligible.

When conencting the SD card to your computer, it might be unrecognzied by My Computer. However, it may be detected under Disk Management. You may find the SD card changes to RAW file system under Disk Management.

SD card not recognized, how to access inside data?

It is really a big headache to the SD card owner that his or her memory disk is not recognized by the digital devices. You know, once the memory drive becomes unrecognizable, all the data inside it will not be accessed. That is, you have to suffer a heavy data loss.

I’ve been using a Kingston SD card for a couple of weeks with no problems. It’s a 8 GB one and I have stored a bunch of music and photos on it. This morning, it stopped working for a while, and I took it out of my phone and reinserted it and then restarted the phone, but the phone just told me to reformat it. I thought it must be corrupted for some reasons and I had to take it out again and insert it to a card reader and connected it to my PC. However, the computer said the SD card was not recognized! How terrible it was! What can I do to access my files again?

You are absolutely wrong if you bear the thought that you would lose your data for ever once the memory card is unrecognizable. The truth is, you still have the chance of restoring the lost data. In this case, you should not format the memory card.

Reasons behind SD card not recognized:

1) Perhaps the card reader that you insert your SD card does not want to work. You can try the SD card on another card reader and see if it works.

2) Perhaps you have stored more files on the SD card than it could hold. It is recommended that you check the storage conditions.

3) If you had insert your SD card to different electronic devices, it is possible for it to be infected by virus. And some virus can cause your SD card unrecognized.

4) Sometimes, SD cards might got corrupted by frequent usage. Card corruption can also lead to non-recognition.

How to access inside data once the SD card not recognized?

In the event that your SD card is not recognized by your phone or digital camera or your computer, the best way for you to access the files on the SD card is to recover them by the data recovery software. It will cost you some time but it’s worth that. As a matter of fact, the program is very useful and powerful. And also it is very easy to master. What’s noteworthy is that you have to see to it that the files on the SD card are not overwritten by new information.

If the SD card can still be recognized under Disk Management, you can format the SD card when files have been restores completely.

Recover data on unrecognized SD cards step by step:

If your SD card is unrecognized by PC or other device like digital camera, cell phone, etc, you can use data recovery software for SD card lost file recovery when it is inaccessible on your PC.

Recover data from SanDisk Cruzer

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Connect the SanDisk Cruzer to your PC and run the data recovery software.

1You need to prepare a computer and furnish it with the data recovery software.
2Now, you are going to launch the data recovery software and connect the SD card to the computer.
3When the scanning is over, you can select the files to be recovered.
4Select the files you need to recover.
5Save and restore lost files.

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