Is This SD Card toast?

[ell]

Hi, my tablet sd card started acting up now its not detected in my pc or anyplace else, I tested the adapter with another card and its fine, the card isn't even showing in disk management in the pc so I can't even reformat it. Might there be tools in linux or something that would fix it?

 

[Porthos]

Might there be tools in linux or something that would fix it?

You don't "fix" it. It needs to be replaced. Now data recovery is a different thing entirely.

 

[ell]

You don't "fix" it. It needs to be replaced. Now data recovery is a different thing entirely.

Its not a big deal, just wondering if there were any tools available

 

[Krynn72]

Boot up parted magic and see if it's detected in there. Parted magic has low level format tools if it can see it. I've revived a couple of my own flash drives by nuking them with a zero fill when they did the same (wouldn't show in windows, Linux saw them but couldn't mount or format them normally).

Goes without saying I hope that the data is forfeit in the process.

 

[ell]

Boot up parted magic and see if it's detected in there. Parted magic has low level format tools if it can see it. I've revived a couple of my own flash drives by nuking them with a zero fill when they did the same (wouldn't show in windows, Linux saw them but couldn't mount or format them normally).

Goes without saying I hope that the data is forfeit in the process.

yeah I booted to it with ubuntu and its not detected, one less little project for me I guess, I've never had one dissapear like this. only loss is a old card

 

[GTP]

Try the Low Level Format Tool. Here: http://www.winsite.com/authors/hddguru/1/

 

[Porthos]

Try the Low Level Format Tool. Here: http://www.winsite.com/authors/hddguru/1/

The Free Version is limited to a speed of 50 MB/s. To increase the speed, you need to purchase a personal or a commercial license.

 

[GTP]

Well for a "one time" fix it may work ok. Obviously if the OP decided to use it further it would be wise to purchase a license.
But they probably already knew that.

 

[NJW]

I booted to it with ubuntu and its not detected

Does it show up in dmesg, maybe with an informative error message?

 

[HFultzjr]

Never trust it again!
Buy a new one.
Not worth it.