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Sophia

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Corrupt SD card!
Apr 29^th, 2026 at 9:14am

Last night, I wanted to transfer photos of 9 years ago from this SD card … I had it in storage in a container in cool dry dark area.
I only used it the once.
And it was freezing my deck top computer, and wouldn’t allow me to transfer much and then many of photos were partly covered over … so I was worried I hadn’t transferred these photos earlier…I then got out the external hard drive and luckily I found I had transferred the photos! Whew!

I pulled the sd card apart to look at how it’s made. Can you believe just this little metallic strip is what stores photos taken!

I’ve still got a canon slr film camera. I might go back to that! Grin

At least not as many corrupt as digital file.

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tallowood Gold Member Offline Израиль Навсегда Posts: 7722 Gender:	Re: Corrupt SD card! Reply #1 - Apr 29^th, 2026 at 9:36am If you use Windows you can try chkdsk E: /f (replace 'E' with your SD card letter) in Command Prompt, have to login as administrator.
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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 119265 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Corrupt SD card! Reply #2 - Apr 29^th, 2026 at 10:30am Always back your files up in multiple ways: more than one hard disk and use a USB disk drive as well. Aim to have 3 copies of every photo.
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Captain Nemo Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 15073 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Corrupt SD card! Reply #3 - Apr 29^th, 2026 at 12:03pm Speaking of SD cards ... I once accidentally deleted photos from an SD card and my paid for software from Nero to try to "undelete" them was a total failure. However, the free software from CCleaner called Recuva worked perfectly! https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva
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Yadda Gold Member Offline Posts: 22756 A cat with a view	Re: Corrupt SD card! Reply #4 - Apr 29^th, 2026 at 5:17pm Bobby. wrote on Apr 29^th, 2026 at 10:30am: *Always back your files up in multiple ways: more than one hard disk and use a USB disk drive as well. Aim to have 3 copies of every photo. Good advice bobby. ! *Any information.....that you do not want to ever lose !
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Reply #5 - Yesterday at 3:57pm

Bobby. wrote on Apr 29^th, 2026 at 10:30am:

Always back your files up in multiple ways:

more than one hard disk and use a USB disk drive as well.

Aim to have 3 copies of every photo.

For my phone photos I now have iCloud because 3 times the different phones, including one still under iPhone warranty became unusable and photos lost.
Many I already downloaded onto computer or external hard drive, and some I recovered that I sent to family … but quite a few are missing.
I can’t trust phones.

I’m wondering, I have one iPhone that just overheated and stopped working.
It’s sitting near my desk with a wishing hope photos can be recovered somehow …

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Reply #6 - Yesterday at 4:11pm

Sophia wrote Yesterday at 3:57pm:

Bobby. wrote on Apr 29^th, 2026 at 10:30am:

Always back your files up in multiple ways:

more than one hard disk and use a USB disk drive as well.

Aim to have 3 copies of every photo.

For my phone photos I now have iCloud because 3 times the different phones, including one still under iPhone warranty became unusable and photos lost.
Many I already downloaded onto computer or external hard drive, and some I recovered that I sent to family … but quite a few are missing.
I can’t trust phones.

I’m wondering, I have one iPhone that just overheated and stopped working.
It’s sitting near my desk with a wishing hope photos can be recovered somehow …

I have my:
(1) main desktop SSD drive,
(2) an extra hard disk drive in the same desktop,
(3) an external USB drive that I also use as a backup,
(4) an old desktop computer with all my old photos too
and that has 2 hard drives - one as a backup.
(5) an old laptop with many photos too.
So some older photos are backed up 6 times!

Therefore:
recent photos and videos at least 3 times plus
the files on my mobile now and my old mobile.

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Reply #7 - Yesterday at 4:21pm

A good story from over 15 years ago at work.

An engineer worked on a technical detail for a product for over 3 months.
It was about 115 pages long - all on the company's laptop-
pictures, diagrams made with CAD - detailed writings -
he never backed it up on the server or any USB stick even though he had a company USB stick.

One day the laptop wouldn't switch on - ohh dear.
The MD was really pissed off as it looked like 3 months of work was wasted.
We sent the laptop out to a hard disk recovery service.
He was lucky - the hard disk was OK -
the fault was on the motherboard.
They removed the hard disk -
put it in another laptop and they were able to read it.
They copied all the files onto a USB hard disk drive so he got every file back.
That company only charged $350.

Always back up your work in 2 different ways.

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Sophia Gold Member Offline Posts: 9606	Re: Corrupt SD card! Reply #8 - Yesterday at 7:48pm One thing I like making with photos taken is a printed photo book. Do it online. I’ve made photo books as presents for many friends and family. Since I take a lot of photos more than most, why not. They say, a photo isn’t a photo until it’s printed. One programme you can look at downloading is photobook Australia.
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 152282 Gender:	Re: Corrupt SD card! Reply #9 - Yesterday at 8:32pm Bobby. wrote on Apr 29^th, 2026 at 10:30am: Always back your files up in multiple ways: more than one hard disk and use a USB disk drive as well. Aim to have 3 copies of every photo. Future generations will be able to see your coarse ground Angus burger rissole with: Dijon mustard, onions and red capsicum.
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Reply #10 - Yesterday at 8:33pm

greggerypeccary wrote Yesterday at 8:32pm:

Bobby. wrote on Apr 29^th, 2026 at 10:30am:

Always back your files up in multiple ways:

more than one hard disk and use a USB disk drive as well.

Aim to have 3 copies of every photo.

Future generations will be able to see your coarse ground Angus burger rissole with: Dijon mustard,
onions and red capsicum.

And how lucky will they be to see what proper food used to look like?

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Setanta Gold Member Online \/ Peace man! Posts: 17307 Northern NSW Gender:	Re: Corrupt SD card! Reply #11 - Today at 12:19am Sophia wrote on Apr 29^th, 2026 at 9:14am: Last night, I wanted to transfer photos of 9 years ago from this SD card … I had it in storage in a container in cool dry dark area. I only used it the once. There's the prob SSDs are solar powered.
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