Miocro sd card changed to raw format and i want it back

[sweetguy044]

Hello,
my phone or laptop changed my 2 gb kingston microsd card to raw format and is not being recognised now. i want the card back, may the data may get lost as it is gift from my deary and she is sentimental about it

 

[Snipergod87]

Sounds like a corrupted partition on the microsd card. You will need to try some data recovery/ undelete tools, and scan the microsd card.
I have used Active@Undelete for hard drives, I dont know if it will work on flash based media, but I imagine it would, however it is not free. If the data is that valuable you might want to take it to a local recovery business, as if the data recovery/restoration if done wrong you could permanently lose it all.

What ever you do dont format the card!

 

[senkasaw]

Yes, don't format the card!! That will get rid of whatever you may be able to recover. As for flash based storage, I have never had good luck with recovering data from them...you can try, but rarely will you be able to get as much as you can from a hdd. You may want to try and find a local business that can recover your information for you...they know a lot more and have more powerful tools for data recovery.