Hardware SD Card needs to be formated fix

[Momba1]

Hello,

as the title says my SD Card got somehow fucked up when I ejected it from the PC... (And yes, I did safe eject)

So now it neither works with the 3DS, which doesnt even boot since the needed files are missing i guess, and the PC only tells me that It needs to be formatted....

As you probably can imagine I am everything but amused about this since I had tons of games installed which would all be lost if I format the SD-Card...

Has anybody had this problem too already and maybe knows a way to restore the files on the SD-Card so that I dont have to put in hours of work again ?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Shadow#1]

Hello,

as the title says my SD Card got somehow fucked up when I ejected it from the PC... (And yes, I did safe eject)

So now it neither works with the 3DS, which doesnt even boot since the needed files are missing i guess, and the PC only tells me that It needs to be formatted....

As you probably can imagine I am everything but amused about this since I had tons of games installed which would all be lost if I format the SD-Card...

Has anybody had this problem too already and maybe knows a way to restore the files on the SD-Card so that I dont have to put in hours of work again ?

Thanks in advance.

Buy a new card this one is cooked

 

[Momba1]

Buy a new card this one is cooked

Doubt it since that isnt the first time I had something like that happen... and the cards always worked after reformatting.

 

[ZipMartin]

If it's happened some times, maybe it's not as good as you think. Make weekly or at least monthly backups after formatting so you won't have such a big headache

 

[Mikemk]

Use a file recovery software to recover what you can, then format.

 

[yaum]

Use a file recovery software (and not chkdsk), to dump SD card contents to PC, then check your SD card with H2testw -> https://3ds.hacks.guide/h2testw-(windows).html

You'd know if you SD card is dead at least.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Hello,

as the title says my SD Card got somehow fucked up when I ejected it from the PC... (And yes, I did safe eject)

So now it neither works with the 3DS, which doesnt even boot since the needed files are missing i guess, and the PC only tells me that It needs to be formatted....

As you probably can imagine I am everything but amused about this since I had tons of games installed which would all be lost if I format the SD-Card...

Has anybody had this problem too already and maybe knows a way to restore the files on the SD-Card so that I dont have to put in hours of work again ?

Thanks in advance.

Try a data recovery program like Recuva (free) or GetDataBack (paid but you can find it if you know where to look, offers more options and seems to recover more data)