i accidentally deleted the FAT32 partition on my memory card (microSD). does anyone know how to rebuild the formatting without formatting the whole card? i can view the files with file recovery software and i know they are there, but would rather rebuild it than buy software specifically to recover deleted files... any help is greatly appreciated.
Just woke up, but there are free recovery tools.. google better
As far as i know, you cant put back the partition without overwriting the old files. some can still be recovered afterwards placing a new partition, but most will be broken.
in a sdcard reader all the same undelete tools on pc's which work on harddisks work on the sdcard
If you need only certain files like pictures, movies and office files I can recommend PC Inspector Smart Recovery. I use that when I recover erased pictures from SD cards.
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First post- I did search but found nothing.
Is there a tool to undelete files on the internal SD memory after a full reset?
I thought I'm safe to factory reset the phone (Samsung Captivate) after backing up to internal SD with MyBackup pro, but the SD looks to be reformated. I know the files are still there, because actual deleting of few GB of info takes quite a while, so it's just the directory that got reset. A full scan will find the files. If I could remove the internal storage, there are tools to perform this operation on a Linux computer, but what about internal storage that's accessible only through USB?
Question regarding a stock Verizon Galaxy S3, rooted with TWRP recovery installed:
My buddy accidentally wiped out all his pictures and videos by performing a "move" from the phone memory to the external SD card using the Samsung file manager. The SD card appears corrupted and now the files are no longer visible in the phone memory.
Is there a way to mount the phone partition on a PC as a drive and use an "un-delete" program to attempt a recovery of the files? Alternatively, could I somehow create a bit-for-bit backup of the phone partition in an image file that could be mounted as a drive in a PC and then use an "un-deleter" on it?
Any ideas?
Thank in advance...
Hello everyone.I made the sd card partition but now I do not have any songs or anything inside SD .They have all deleted or what?Please,tell me what to do so i can restore them.Thank you
When sd partition is made, the sd card is formatted during patitioning. & there is no way to recover files afterwards.
Yes, you can restore them provided that you haven't used the sdcard much.
Use Recuva for windows or TestDisk for linux.
koubos said:
Hello everyone.I made the sd card partition but now I do not have any songs or anything inside SD .They have all deleted or what?Please,tell me what to do so i can restore them.Thank you
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if windows ain't detecting anything, that means you've created the first partition as ext 2/3/4 (which is wrong partitioning), the first partition should be FAT32 and primary, and the second small partition should be ext 2/3/4 and primary (and i guess you're using it for swap or link2sd etc), and after partitioning, if your windows is detecting properly your first FAT32 partition then you can restore deleted file using Recuva or tune up utilities (and loads of other softwares), recovery is possible after formatting, with a bit of luck...:good: (ie those deleted files shoundt be over-written with some other files you copied to your card)
First don't reuse SD card to save files and try with Remo Recover.
Hi all
Samsung S7, standard rom, encrypted SD card (Samsung 128 EVO)
My 128GB SD card held a huge amount of photos amongst other things. One day, the card stopped mounting (and I therefore couldn't decrypt the files). Taking the card out and putting it in a card reader connected to the phone, it would mount but didn't give me the option to decrypt the files. I copied all the encrypted files to my laptop, and formatted the card. A different volume name was generated. I copied all of the files back to the card, but the data couldn't be read. I imagine a new key was generated when I re-formatted the card.
Data recovery tools can see the files, but they remain encrypted.
Renaming the volume label to the original name and trying again didn't work either.
I have not changed my pattern code, not done a factory reset, and have not updated the OS since.
How do I go about recovering the encrypted data. I have all the files, but no way to decrypt them using the phone. Is there any way to restore the files?
You can try this
I am very hesitant to overwrite back all the encrypted files to the SD card so as not to write over the old files (which I can see in a data recovery tool, although they are encrypted)
So, I will try the following.:
1. I will connect an old SSD and format it as external storage and encrypt it using the method you linked.
2. I will copy the 80GB of encrypted data backed up on my PC onto the SSD (probably using wifi)
3. I will then try decrypting the external SSD drive using my phone and see whether I can read the files
4. I will report back
Ideally, I would like the volume to have the same volume name as the original SD card volume. I wonder if this plays a part in the encryption/decryption process
If any other suggestions are forthcoming, I'll take them too!
My SD card is set as adoptable storage, but it has gotten corrupted. It happened when I was copying files from my phone to PC via USB (ironically I was doing this to backup my files from my phone). Somewhere during copying, the phone virtually disconnected from the PC, and on my phone it said that it couldn't read my SD card.
Couple of things to note:
I'm using Lineage OS.
The SD card isn't encrypted.
When connecting the SD card directly to my PC, the SD card shows as two drives, D: and E:, with D: being accessible showing an almost empty drive of 29,4 GB (which is the full logical capacity of this drive), and E: inaccessible, requiring a reformat (no idea what E: is). On D: the folders that I can see are .android_secure, Android (with the sub folders data and media) and LOST.DIR. All folders are empty.
This SD card should be filled with data almost up to max capacity.
I haven't changed a thing to the corrupted SD card. I did not reformat, used CHKDSK or w/e. The only things that I have done is attempting to make raw copies with HDD Raw Copy Tool and R-Studio.
I've read here and there that it is (almost?) impossible to logically fix a corrupted adoptable storage SD card in that I could just pop it back into my phone to resume where I exactly left off. So I'm looking to recover as much data from the SD card as possible. I'm most concerned about recovering my Whatsapp folder (I haven't got a complete GDrive backup of this), but I'd prefer to recover everything else as well.
What must I do?