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General Computer Support / Re: Windows 7 "Scan and Fix (Recommended)" corrupted my MicroSD card

« on: March 01, 2015, 05:58:21 pm »

Well, I tried that and no luck. Thanks for all your help.

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows 7 "Scan and Fix (Recommended)" corrupted my MicroSD card

« on: February 24, 2015, 09:30:43 pm »

Yeah, I already did that. I ran all these programs through a card reader. I would be interested to know what programs you are referring to though. Maybe I can download and try them.

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows 7 "Scan and Fix (Recommended)" corrupted my MicroSD card

« on: February 17, 2015, 10:49:49 am »

Wow, what programs DIDN'T I use as I tried so many is probably the better question lol.

I can't recall all of them, but to name a few...

Recuva, Stellar, Easeus, Zar, CardRecovery, Pandora


And I always did a deep scan whenever that option was present.

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows 7 "Scan and Fix (Recommended)" corrupted my MicroSD card

« on: February 16, 2015, 06:51:23 pm »

Yes, I'm aware of that. Nothing has been written to the card since this happened. I purposely haven't used the card because of that very reason. Any more ideas on this? Thanks

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows 7 "Scan and Fix (Recommended)" corrupted my MicroSD card

« on: February 13, 2015, 10:23:25 pm »

That's correct. This is the microsd card from my Samsung Galaxy S4 phone. I tried over 15 recovery software and none of them worked. They recovered files I had deleted a long time ago, but not the ones I had deleted just the night before.

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows 7 "Scan and Fix (Recommended)" corrupted my MicroSD card

« on: February 11, 2015, 04:36:08 pm »

Yes, zero bad sectors. So what does that mean? Do I have hope? If yes, what should I do?

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows 7 "Scan and Fix (Recommended)" corrupted my MicroSD card

« on: February 11, 2015, 01:55:15 pm »

So it ran the test and came back with "0 KB in bad sectors".

That might be a good thing?

Thanks

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows 7 "Scan and Fix (Recommended)" corrupted my MicroSD card

« on: February 11, 2015, 01:49:50 pm »

ok, so I got the message "Chdssk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process.....Would you like to force a dismount of this volume (Y/N).

I selected Yes and now says "Windows is verifying files and folder" and is doing its magic.

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General Computer Support / Re: Windows 7 "Scan and Fix (Recommended)" corrupted my MicroSD card

« on: February 11, 2015, 01:00:57 pm »

I know that there are a lot of different parameters used with chkdsk, but I'm not sure if I tried those or not. I will check that when I get home. Thanks much

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General Computer Support / Windows 7 "Scan and Fix (Recommended)" corrupted my MicroSD card

« on: February 09, 2015, 07:58:41 pm »

I went out for New Year Eve, had a wonderful time and took many pictures. Upon reviewing my pictures, I noticed that about half of them were a blank icon with a lightning bolt in the top center. I was very upset about this, but said to myself "well, at least I have half of my pictures".

Then  I took the microSD card out of my phone and put it into a card reader and plugged it into my Windows 7 computer.
Upon doing so, I got the message ".......Scan and Fix (recommended) with the option to continue or cancel. I chose continue and all my pictures were deleted from New Years Eve. Ironically, all of my other pictures remained intact and available.

I downloaded and tried more than 15 different data recovery software programs and it only found files that I had already copied; no files from New Years Eve.

I read somewhere that there might be a place where the pictures may be in a hidden file system area under a different file extension and that all I had to do was change the file extension and I would get my pictures back.

Well, after a thorough search, I came up with no files.

I've been reading about "dirty bits" and ran "CHKDSK" from an administrator command prompt typed "fsutil dirty query e:" and it does say that the volume is dirty. I don't want to clear the dirty bit by formatting my microsd card because I will hurt my chances even more of recovering my files. I spoke with Microsoft for over an hour today and no one seems to know about "dirty bits". I believe I read that clearing the dirty bit MAY allow me to see and recover my pictures, but I won't know until I can make that happen.

The file system on the Sandisc microsd 64GB SDHC card is ExFAT and the operating system I tried this on is windows 7 64bit Ultimate . I also tried to recover these files from my Samsung Galaxy S4 and had no luck either.

The worse thing is that I DO use Google backup for my pictures, but I had just factory reset my phone THAT day and hadn't yet had a chance to set it up

If anyone knows of a way to restore my beautiful, priceless pictures from New Years Eve, I would be extremely grateful.

Thanks so much to anyone that can help a very sad person who's new year didn't start off the right way.