How to Repair Damaged Memory Cards

Like a bad vending machine that takes your money without coughing up the product, a damaged memory card can seemingly eat your data. In some cases, you may be able to stick your hand down the card's proverbial throat and get it to cough up data that you have saved on it. The first thing to do is test the memory card using a USB memory card reader and your computer to see if it will recognize the card. If your computer system doesn't recognize the damaged memory card, use the Windows "chkdsk" program to repair it.Step 1
Insert your memory card into a USB memory card reader. Plug the data cable for the USB adapter into a USB port on your computer. Windows automatically recognizes the device and assigns a drive letter to it. Double-click on the drive letter that Windows assigned to the device. If you can access your data, the card is working.
Step 2
Click the Windows orb on your taskbar, if nothing happens or you receive an error message when you double-click the card's drive letter. Type “run” (without the quotes here and in subsequent commands) in the “Search programs and files” text box. Click the "OK" button to open the Run pop-up box. Type “cmd" in the text box and click on the "OK" button to bring up a command prompt box. Type the "chkdsk" command and specify the drive letter to check, followed by "/r." The resulting command will look like this example: chkdsk e: /r. Press "Enter" to execute the command and check the memory card for errors.
Step 3
Wait until the "chkdsk" program finishes checking your memory card for structure corruption. Press the letter “Y” on your keyboard to allow the program to continue checking, until you recognize the files and directories that you have saved on the memory card. When "chkdsk" is finished checking the memory card, you're prompted to save lost chains into files. Click the “Yes” option. In a few moments, "chkdsk" will display all of your lost data files that have been repaired on your computer.
Step 4
Switch to the desktop and double-click on “Computer,” and then click on the drive letter that Windows assigned to the memory card. All of the files that were repaired will be visible, and you'll be able to access them again on the memory card.
Step 5
Remove the memory card from the memory card adapter. Unplug the data cable to the memory card adapter from the USB port on your computer. Insert the memory card into the mobile device that you normally use to access the files on it.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Reliance to Launch 4G Smartphones Under 'Lyf' Brand

Image
Reliance Retail, part of the  Reliance Industries  group, said Friday it will soon launch its own brand of 4G LTE smartphones under the brand Lyf. In an emailed statement, Reliance Retail said the brand is "built on the premise of unmatched user experience will offer high performance handsets that deliver a true 4G experience comparableto the best in the world." To that end, Reliance Retail said the Lyf range of smartphones will come with features like voice over LTE (VoLTE), voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-FI), as well as HD voice and HD quality video calling. The company has earlier talked about  launching 4G smartphones at Rs. 4,000  and offering services at Rs. 300 per month. Apart from Reliance Retail, the Lyf brand of smartphones will be available through a wider distribution and retail network including multi-brand outlets. Earlier this month, Reliance Industries (which owns Reliance Jio Infocomm) and Reliance Communications announced  a partnership to trade an
Read more

14 Things You Can Do in Android Marshmallow That You Couldn't Do in Lollipop

Image
Whether you’ve put in an order for a  Nexus 6P  or you’re patiently waiting for Android version 6.0 to reach your  Galaxy S6 , you’ll want to know what Marshmallow can do for you. It’s not a dramatic leap forward for Google’s mobile OS, but there are still a number of useful new features you’re going to want to know about. Of course,  unlike Apple , Google updates all its key apps independently of the OS as a whole—that means there’s not quite as much to talk about with an Android update as there is with an iOS one. At this stage (stock) Android is pretty much Google Now with a settings page and a dialer app, but Marshmallow still offers plenty of reasons to look forward to your upgrade. 1. Get Google Now on tap Google Now on Tap  is the biggest new feature here and is activated with a long-press on the Home button. It’s designed to understand context better than ever before, so songs, movies, venues and the like are automatically identified inside the current app and you g
Read more

How to Make Your Computer Faster – 10 Proven tips

Image
Proven tips to make your Computer or Laptop run faster. How to make your computer faster  is a question that may be bothering many of you struggling hard with slower machines. Computers/Laptops start to slow down as they get older and clogged up with files, unused software and other digital debris. Even laptops with the fastest processors can start to run slow over time. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean you need to replace your machine with a new one or hire a computer geek to  make your Laptop run faster . Thankfully, you can  speed up your machine nearly to its full speed a lot easier than you think with few easy maintenance steps or inexpensive upgrades. Here are 10 proven simple tips on how to make your computer or laptop run faster, some of which of course, have been suggested many times before by computer experts. 1. How to make your Computer faster – Check free space on hard disk As you use your computer and load programs, files, music, photos etc, the availa
Read more