Hello, everybody. Today I recieved a new card reader from DealExtreme and I tried my SD card with it, but it was not able to read it and gave me this massage: "Please insert disk into drive X". When I click on proerties it says that the capacity of the card is 0 bytes, it can't be formatted - "There is no disk in drive X. Insert a disk, adn then try again." Windows XP SP3 I tried changing the letter of the drive, changing to another USB port... nothing worked. I tried various data recovering tools, none of them worked - they didn't detect the drive or gave me some kind of error. I also tried to insert it in the SD slot of my laptop (also on XP SP3) and it says "The disk in drive X is not formatted. Do you want to format now?" So is there any hope of recovering my data... or at least saving my card? P.S. I'm sorry for my bad english and thanks in advance.
sounds very much like the card is corrupted. You will have to try a couple of other card readers and see if they can read the card. Otherwise, I would probably try to format it (your laptop said that it could format the drive). If that doesn't work out, say goodbye to the SD card.
I tried differnet card readers - same story. Eventually I'll try to format the thing but I hope to restore my data.
if you format the card, the data will be lost. Of course, there are 'magic' tools that claim to be able to recover data from formated drives, but I am not sure whether that goes for Flash-based devices as well (check this link)
yes your card is corrupted i think so , thats the card usually happened. Maybe because some of the viruses in files
Hi Now that you have already tried many card redaers, its quite sure that your SD has gone corrupt. But data is important and you want to recover it too.. You can try professional Digital Media recovery software, which is perfect in recovering data out of corrupt SD card.
