My sons SD card on his android phone is corrupted. Of course his science fair project pictures are on that card. Putting his SD card in our desktop and using check disc showed us that the card is in RAW format? The playstore apps seem to either be backups that allow you to retrieve stuff you lose later or instructions on how to use you PC's chkdsc function. The card was being used in a device that used it as part of its internal memory. Is their any hope?
No googley backups?
I use airdroid to back up the phone to my Mac (that doesn't get backed up).
First thing you need to do is take an image of the card with a program like ddrecover, then you can use photorec on that image to try to recover the files. Don't do anything from Windows' default tools, nothing it does it likely to help and some of the actions it suggests will wipe out what's left of the partition/filesystem data.
^^ Do something like Gameboy said.
I had a corrupted card years ago, I was able to recover everything I think. The files were all renamed and it took a bit of sorting but I had it all back.
I've had great luck with this: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
Testdisk is my first stop for repairing bad partitions or lost files. I just used it to recover data from a bad 4 terabyte partition. It is harder to use because it doesn't have a GUI, but it is very powerful.
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