Fix: ‘A Corrupted SD Card Or Pen Drive’ – Guide
Are you having problems accessing files on SD card because it is corrupted or damaged? We understand your pain, which is why we’ve put together this comprehensive overview of 11 solutions to fix a faulty SD card and repair logical damage.
Technical methods to repair a corrupted USB flash drive or SD card
How to to fix a corrupted USB or SD card? If it is physically damaged, there is no choice but to replace it with a good one. If not, you can try the following methods. But before that, it is better to connect your SD card or flash drive to another computer to check if the computer itself is causing the problem. Or it could be possible that the port is damaged, so try a different USB port. If no problems are found, check out the 4 technical methods.
Fix file system errors on USB flash drive/SD card
Firstly, you can check the USB flash drive or SD card for disk errors. To do this, double-click “My Computer/This PC” to open File Explorer, right-click the damaged pen drive or SD card, click “Properties” and go to “Tools”, finally click “Scan” to scan this drive for file system errors.
Check and fix bad sectors
To check and repair possible bad sectors on SD card or USB flash drive, you can open Command Prompt by clicking “Start” button by typing “cmd” into “Search” box, right-clicking Command Prompt icon and choosing “Run as Administrator”, and type “chkdsk g: /f /r /x” (g: is the drive letter of the partition you want to check) in the command prompt pop-out window, to check and fix errors found in f: volume. If your flash drive or SD card becomes RAW and you encounter “CHKDSK is not available for raw drives” error. You can turn to AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard which is a free disk manager for Windows 11/10/8/7/Vista/XP users. It allows you to check and fix possible bad sectors on partitions in three steps.
Reinstall the drivers
Recover data and reformat corrupted pen drive/SD card
The above methods focus on how to repair corrupt sd card or unformatted pen drive. But if none makes a difference, you might need to reformat it. As the formatting process will delete all data from corrupted SD card or pen drive, it is advisable to first recover data from them through professional data recovery software. Then you can format it in Disk Management or Diskpart. Below is how to fix a corrupted USB drive/SD card/pen drive using CMD (Diskpart service). Open the CMD window and type the following command and press enter after each one.
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