Why pen drive or SD card get corrupted?īefore we discuss how to repair a corrupted pen drive or SD card in Windows 11/10/8/7, you might want to know what causes their damages. ▸The SD card/pen drive becomes RAW file system, not allowing you to access it. ▸You can see the contents of your SD card in your system, but unable to add, delete, modify or copy data in your SD card because it is set into read only mode. ▸Windows computer recognized your SD card successfully, but you cannot see any data within it, and the hard drive says it needs to be formatted. ▸When you attempt to read the drive, no data appears along with an error prompt “Read / Write error on SD card”, which means you cannot read data from this device. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.” When accessing them in Windows File Explorer. ▸Receive an error message saying “SD card is not accessible. When they get damaged or corrupted, you will be irritated by one of the following issues: if you get access denied at any point during this process it is likely that you need to run the CMD prompt as admin.What if pen drive or SD card is corrupted?Īlthough pen drives and SD cards have developed as popular data storage media, they are prone to damage. Once you've completed the above steps you should have completely reformatted your USB and it will be ready for use. The next step is completely wipe the USB device: DISKPART> select disk 1įinally we need to create a primary partition on the disk and format it, in this case as fat32: DISKPART> select disk 1ĭiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.ĭiskPart successfully formatted the volume. This will present a list of disks, e.g.: DISKPART> list diskĪs you can see from the example I have a 150GB disk, disk 0, and an 8GB disk, disk 1, being the USB pen.
Open up CMD (open it as administrator if you're running Windows Vista or 7 and UAC) and type the following: diskpart There is a process you can use to format unreadable drives from the command line, I often find it necessary on USB pens that are causing me real headaches.
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