Recovering SD memory Cards

[Harry Bloomfield]

I've had five unusable SD cards around for some time, during which time I've made several attempts to recover access to them. Yesterday, I made a more determined effort to sort them out, and came across this - https://www.cleverfiles.com/howto/fix-corrupted-sd-card.html#windows-repair-tool 'Way 5', was the one which worked with 4 of the 5 cards, using Windows Disk Manager. The 5th card, it seemed was genuinely faulty.

 

[Wayners]

Can be hit or miss. SD cards are very unreliable I've found so don't don't rely on them.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Can be hit or miss. SD cards are very unreliable I've found so don't don't rely on them.

The unreliable element, seems to be me....

I have a number installed in various devices, security cam, dashcam, music in ICE system, satnav, RPi running weather station, RPi monitoring boiler. All just work, and some for years, until I get my hands on a card, then, often as not, they become unreadable.

 

[Deleted member 323070]

The unreliable element, seems to be me....

I have a number installed in various devices, security cam, dashcam, music in ICE system, satnav, RPi running weather station, RPi monitoring boiler. All just work, and some for years, until I get my hands on a card, then, often as not, they become unreadable.

An occasional reformat helps to maintain them a little.
Obviously a reformat destroys any data on there.

 

[evdamadiynot]

Never had problems with quality ones-had countless issues with cheap ones so no longer bother.
My dashcam and trail cam eat standard spec ones for breakfast so they get High Endurance type which last for years.