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I thought I would pass on my experience with recovering from video and still photos from a corrupted SD card from my Wife's Android. I suspect my USB SD card reader that I use for my Linux box once in a blue moon for my Dash cam vids may be the source of this. I see a few times people talk about the corrupted SD cards.
If you want me to get quickly to the point
- Zar X
http://www.howtogeek.com/232931/how-to-recover-images-off-a-corrupted-sd-card/
now for my lengthy story
In the summer of last year, my wife started having cases where the internal storage in her Samsung S4 wasn't enough so I got her a 32 gb sd card and she promptly moved her videos and photographs to that card.
I have a few SD card readers, two of which are USB based that I use for my Linux box. I noticed that for one of them, there seemed to be corruption for my dash cam videos. I thought it was because of the format of the SD card on windows box or how I removed or inserted the card from my Dash cam or computer. I use it so rarely, I never really connected the dots.
This winter, my wives phone totally crashed during an OS upgrade. A common problem, can't interrupt an OS upgrade and she did. Despite trying to bring the phone back to life with several attempts it was dead. Fortunately I got her an SD card early Fall last year.
The sd card looked ok, I left it in this USB Flash drive that can hold micro SD card for a few weeks. When I came back to copy the files to my NIX box I noticed the folder names were corrupted. I tried other card readers and got the same. I did a windows scan fix on my Windows box and the folder names where NOT in greek letter file names, but only a fraction of the videos and photo graphs seemed to be on the SD card.
My wife had photos and videos of family members who have since passed away so I had to make every effort to recover the files.
If you ever have dash cam videos you want to recover, check out this.
http://www.howtogeek.com/232931/how-to-recover-images-off-a-corrupted-sd-card/
This is a windows program.
Before running Zar X, I had only 600 photo graphs from the SD card, I now have 1700. It recovered both wmv and mp4 video files including the videos of my mother who passed away.
Later this week I will confirm one of my SD card readers is the source of the corruption.
If you want me to get quickly to the point
- Zar X
http://www.howtogeek.com/232931/how-to-recover-images-off-a-corrupted-sd-card/
now for my lengthy story
In the summer of last year, my wife started having cases where the internal storage in her Samsung S4 wasn't enough so I got her a 32 gb sd card and she promptly moved her videos and photographs to that card.
I have a few SD card readers, two of which are USB based that I use for my Linux box. I noticed that for one of them, there seemed to be corruption for my dash cam videos. I thought it was because of the format of the SD card on windows box or how I removed or inserted the card from my Dash cam or computer. I use it so rarely, I never really connected the dots.
This winter, my wives phone totally crashed during an OS upgrade. A common problem, can't interrupt an OS upgrade and she did. Despite trying to bring the phone back to life with several attempts it was dead. Fortunately I got her an SD card early Fall last year.
The sd card looked ok, I left it in this USB Flash drive that can hold micro SD card for a few weeks. When I came back to copy the files to my NIX box I noticed the folder names were corrupted. I tried other card readers and got the same. I did a windows scan fix on my Windows box and the folder names where NOT in greek letter file names, but only a fraction of the videos and photo graphs seemed to be on the SD card.
My wife had photos and videos of family members who have since passed away so I had to make every effort to recover the files.
If you ever have dash cam videos you want to recover, check out this.
http://www.howtogeek.com/232931/how-to-recover-images-off-a-corrupted-sd-card/
This is a windows program.
Before running Zar X, I had only 600 photo graphs from the SD card, I now have 1700. It recovered both wmv and mp4 video files including the videos of my mother who passed away.
Later this week I will confirm one of my SD card readers is the source of the corruption.
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