Hardware Best way to format a corrupted Sd card?

[CrazyButtStabber]

So I have a 32 Gb Sandisk microsd card that corrupted a while back and I could find any way of formatting. I have searched for hours with no luck. Now I want to see if I can try and succeed this time. So are there any programs or methods available to completely format my sd card?

 

[Lacius]

Use SD Formatter. I don't know what happened, but be advised that the SD card could have gone bad.

 

[CrazyButtStabber]

Use SD Formatter. I don't know what happened, but be advised that the SD card could have gone bad.

I'll try it out and see how it goes. It was full of music, so one of those files might have corrupted it, im not sure

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Just makes me hate sd cards. so many years and still can't get reliable stuff.

 

[sp3off]

I have a totally bricked 16Gb SD card, who's got better ?

 

[CrazyButtStabber]

Just makes me hate sd cards. so many years and still can't get reliable stuff.

Yeah it really sucks having what could be a perfectly good SD card not work for no good reason

 

[migles]

Yeah it really sucks having what could be a perfectly good SD card not work for no good reason

if SD formatter advised above can't format it, pretty much that card is dead...
if you had important stuff in it, you can try sending it to a recover service... i recently seen a guy in youtube doing it:


they don't talk about their prices in the site though..., but you can pretty much search around somewhere close to your place and get rates..

 

[Ryccardo]

I have a totally bricked 16Gb SD card, who's got better ?

Fire up a live Linux distro of the last couple years with the least background services (like the Arch installer), and use dd to try to rewrite every sector (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/whatever conv=sync,noerror)... but don't expect miracles

some Canon cameras also have a full erase feature

 

[CrazyButtStabber]

if SD formatter advised above can't format it, pretty much that card is dead...
if you had important stuff in it, you can try sending it to a recover service... i recently seen a guy in youtube doing it:


they don't talk about their prices in the site though..., but you can pretty much search around somewhere close to your place and get rates..

It was just about 10 gigs worth of music, luckily it was nothing important

 

[Gizametalman]

Through command line.

 

[wolfmankurd]

What do you mean by corrupted? A corrupted partition should be formatable using just about anything.

Do you mean the SD card has failed? Sometimes only the interface is messed up (say if certain wires break inside).

If that's the case you might be able to get at it using different hardware to test the 3 interfaces (one bit, four bit and SPI).

 

[sp3off]

Fire up a live Linux distro of the last couple years with the least background services (like the Arch installer), and use dd to try to rewrite every sector (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/whatever conv=sync,noerror)... but don't expect miracles

some Canon cameras also have a full erase feature

Man, I have Ubuntu GNOME. If it works, you are a true savior. Will try.