SD Card Unreadable? On my DSLR and on the computers I tested on.

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SD Card Unreadable? On my DSLR and on the computers I tested on.

So there's this SD card which I have in my possession right now which can't seem to open in every single computer that I tried on (it doesn't detect it AT ALL) and when plugged into my DSLR, the DSLR couldn't even turn on.

At first when I plugged it into a Macbook, I got it detected but there was a message saying that the card's format is unreadable. When the prompt came out it asked me to either "initialize", "ignore" or "eject". I clicked initialize and it brought me into a disk utility window. I closed the window, plugged out the SD card, and now it does not work again.

Any idea what's the problem here and if there is a fix for it?

MacBook Pro

Posted on Nov 20, 2012 8:03 AM

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a brody

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Nov 20, 2012 8:44 AM in response to poppotaku

Not even SD cards are permenent media. Your best bet, if there is something important on it, to get a data recovery program such as Prosoft Data Rescue to recover data from it. With Prosoft Data Rescue, if I don't have an empty drive, I make a writable disk image at least the size of the media I'm trying to recover using Disk Utility. See my data recovery tip:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-1689

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