How to Fix Unreadable Raw Micro SD Card

what you guys got another video on how to fix your unreadable raw micro SD card or SD card or any type of uh card that you may be using for your camera or for your capture device or anything like that as you can see here I want to show you exactly what I do when I'm trying to repair these particular uh SD cards or micro SD cards when I do this here you'll see I get error messages on this card when I try to read it here and you can see I'm getting issues with the actual card itself it says raw and I can't do anything with it doesn't matter whether I delete the volume try to recreate the volume like I'm going to show you right now I'm trying to show you exactly what I do because a lot of people on YouTube will just actually talk about it and I'm trying to show you in my videos exactly what to do with an actual real issue and I think that's the way forward as you can see here uh it still doesn't uh matter what I do I'm still getting the raw popping up on the car card itself and it means the card is unusable and I can't use that card until I fix it so let's go about trying to fix this now the card could be faulty uh but more than likely the card is okay and I'm going to show you how we can test it and basically get that working again so you can see up there the F drive for the card it means I cannot use the card because I can't access it because it's not readable so what I'm going to do here is I'm going to show you at the next step on some of the things that you might want to try so this right click on it and go properties and uh what we're going to do here is go to tools and try to run a Check disc on the actual card itself to see whether that fixes the problem and I'm pretty sure it's not going to but we'll give it a go and you can see it can't access the actual card itself now what I try to do with my videos is actually show you a problem and then fix it I think that's the way that videos need to be because obviously talking about fixing something that you haven't got in front of you is not much point because basically you can go and read a load of stuff on the internet and it's not going to work for you and it can be very frustrating another great tool is the Raspberry Pi imager this allow you to erase the actual drive itself but again when you go to erase it you can see I've selected the drive here it's going to say all existing data on that drive will be erased I'm going to say yes I want to continue and what you'll see here is probably going to get another error message like error determine the new Drive letter and it won't be able to work so these things you can try and uh you can follow along and try to fix them by using these methods but if they don't I'll show you some other things you can do okay so I'm going to open up command prompt here as administrator and what we're going to do here is going to type dis part in here and we'll see whether we can get anything from here to see where we can get it to work now if used this part many times before and it's worked pretty well for me you can see the drive here here on their 119 GB it's important that you get the right Drive selected because if you select the wrong drive it's going to erase that drive so make sure when you're messing around in command prompt that you know what you're doing you can see here on the list of dis management disk part uh is talking about disk 2 which is my raw dis which is the one that we're interested in so that's the one that we're going to be going for and uh you can't put any sort of Drive letter on it or anything like that or try to access it it won't allow you to access the drive so what we're going to do next is we're going to put in a bunch of commands here and see if we can get it to fix itself and try to use it now you can try to clean command and all that stuff uh if you want to but I'm just going to select the dis 2 here and what we're going to do is we got dis 2 now selected and what I'm going to do is do another command and hopefully uh this will resolve the issue so we're going to go list volume here and this will show us the volumes so let's go ahead and put that on there and you can now see the volumes on this computer and I'm checking to see the status of this and you can see it says it's actually healthy so I know the drive is in good working order it says volume for removable 119 GB and it says status healthy so that's good it means the drive is functional but it's just got a problem with itself so what we need to do is we can investigate further and try to fix it so let's go ahead and select volume 4 then and we'll go ahead and finish off here and I'll show you another option that we can try so let me go ahead and select volume 4 and this is just the tell command prompt or dis part that we're going to be working with dis 4 or volume 4 or volume 2 or volume 1 or dis 2 or whatever it is that you type in so we are working now with volume 4 which is our removable 119 GB drive it's now selected and now we can work on it so that's basically either select the volume or you're selecting the actual drive itself now you can click format and you can type in your command here for formatting if you want to format the whole drive you can select disk uh 2 one Whatever It Is dis number you got and you can format that as well and you can either make it NTFS xat or whatever it is you want to do at this stage and try to push enter and it will try to format the card and basically put it back you see we're getting an error here and it's not allowing us to do that so let's go ahead and type clean and that's not working as well access denied and it's not letting us work on that card at all so what we're going to do here is we'll exit out of this and we'll try another method which has work for me before in the past so let's go ahead and exit out now you may have seen me using mini tool before and I advertised their free version here but to be honest with you it's just not worth using uh mini tool free vers version anymore like a lot of the other ones the free version just doesn't have anything in it anymore and when they're a small company they used to give you quite a bit of useful stuff uh for use on the free edition but now you can see you can't do anything with this you can't even uh you know format the drive inside here anymore you have to buy the full version but you can do a surface test here as well so we'll do a surface test to make sure the card is working and functioning okay but like I said I wouldn't recommend mini tour anymore I don't really sort of recommend the free versions of stuff that don't give you anything anymore so there's plenty of other ones out there you can use that actually give you more uh tools to use for free and uh if you want to you can use some of the older versions of mini tool that have a lot more features on them and uh basically they still function perfectly fine and uh but that's the only thing I wouldn't recommend nowadays is mini tool for the free version it's just not worth it and you can see the surface scan has come back complete and it's okay there's no read errors or anything like that or no block damage so minior is a complete waste of time now because you can't do anything with the free version so we're just going to quickly exit out of this and uh what we're going to do is like I said you try try and do anything on here like wipe dis uh it will ask you to purchase it and you can see here I'm just going to do a sector of zeros here soon as you click okay here it will tell you to purchase the full version click apply down the bottom and this is something I don't like about these particular types of software companies that get you to install something and then eventually it doesn't work now dis genius is still very usable it's got a lot of good functions on it for free and you can use it I'll leave a link in the video description for this one because this one's worth a mention so you can see here we've got the actual drive here I'm going to select the drive and uh what you can do is you can do a lot of things on here that work perfectly fine and I'm just going to erase the drive and then I'm going to try to recreate uh the drive here so you can do a scan for bad sectors and stuff like that here all you need to do is just verify and it will do a much more in-depth scan on that drive uh but I've already done that so what I'm going to do next is I'm going to move on to the next bit which is erasing the drive but if you do want to repair the drive you can do it from here it will find bad sectors and it will list them but what we're going to do here is we're going to erase these sectors here we're just going to overwrite the uh drive itself so I'm going to erase it just be using the erase tool which is built into this program here so just go ahead and erase this click okay here make sure you're selecting the right drive and we will click okay and you can see here we're going to click on erase and once we do this this should start the process so let me click okay again this is popping up I'm hoping this is going to work and there we go it's starting to work now this does take a fair bit of time so be patient just going to scrub the drive clean I'll save you the pain of watching that go next up what we're going to do is create a new Partition for this now now we've completely erased the drive so we're going to click okay here and what we're going to do is leave this fat 32 and uh we're just leaving all the settings as is click okay and now what we need to do is save all up the top here just click on save all and once we've done this hopefully you'll get another box saying are you sure you want to write the changes to the dis we're going to say yes we do do you want to format it I'm going to say yes and we're going to just format that and voila we seem to have got a drive now working and functioning properly just like so and you can see here on there we've got the driver as fat 32 everything is working okay and hopefully we can now access the drive and we have now resolved our problem so let me just quickly close this program off and we'll go to our Explorer to see whether we can access the drive itself so that's basically how you can resolve those issues you can see all the information here so the drive was functioning properly it just was uh corrupted in some way shape or form and it won't let you use the drive but that's basically how you can get a a raw drive that's not working properly and you've tried quite a few different things there as you can see in this video and now that the drive is working perfectly fine it's important that you understand that the drive needs to be working correctly if you're going to continue to use the drive there's no point using the drive if it has bad sectors or it comes up with errors but you can see it's functioning perfectly fine here now and it's 120 uh gab uh drive so that's quite a useful drive to have and that's basically it that is how you can fix raw ssds or micro SSD cards or any other type of uh card that you may be using on Windows 11 here uh or you can do it on Windows 10 and uh that is it my name is B Brian from bric computers. co.uk just want to say a quick shout out to all my YouTube members who have joined my YouTube members group I really do appreciate the support whether you're tier one tier 2 or tier three I really do appreciate it have a lovely weekend and I'll will catch you in the next one or see you on the Discord server for a chat bye for [Music] now

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Id: pE3v4c2aZ3A

Length: 11min 31sec (691 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 09 2023