Memory card corrupted?

[MajorFoley]

So my Samsung S3 is giving me a weird issue with the SD card in it. All the folders and files had their names changed to.... symbols or something i think? Looks like chinese or something and im worried it may have been corrupted. Is there anyway to recover anything off of it?

[Oswin]

you could try and scan it with an antivirus on your PC, just be careful not all antiviruses are good. i tried it found a couple sd cards broken 

[Manas_4a]

I had the same problem a couple years ago, I was using windows phone. I took out the SD card and kept it in a place with ideally no magnetic interference (Like TV, Moniter, Speakers, etc) I kept mine in a wooden shelf in the attic. after a couple of days I reinserted the card and it worked fine. Although if you try this be carefull not to put it in a place where it can contact a static charge. I would also suggest that you initially use an antivirus software to search for any malwares.

[MajorFoley]

13 hours ago, Oswin said:

you could try and scan it with an antivirus on your PC, just be careful not all antiviruses are good. i tried it found a couple sd cards broken 

 

12 hours ago, Manas_4a said:

I had the same problem a couple years ago, I was using windows phone. I took out the SD card and kept it in a place with ideally no magnetic interference (Like TV, Moniter, Speakers, etc) I kept mine in a wooden shelf in the attic. after a couple of days I reinserted the card and it worked fine. Although if you try this be carefull not to put it in a place where it can contact a static charge. I would also suggest that you initially use an antivirus software to search for any malwares.

Thanks for the replies guys. Wouldnt scanning the card for malware practically erase everything there? I mean if they are all looking like jumbled letters and numebrs and other weird characters wouldn't it detect them as malware themselves?

[Oswin]

11 hours ago, MajorFoley said:

 

Thanks for the replies guys. Wouldnt scanning the card for malware practically erase everything there? I mean if they are all looking like jumbled letters and numebrs and other weird characters wouldn't it detect them as malware themselves?

antiviruses would remove only the malware and viruses, i dont know if they would delete all the data. i tried scanning the card and the files are still there only the corrupted ones are deleted.

[MajorFoley]

Sorry i haven't replied in a while i've been out of home for a few weeks.

Ok so it seems the files are gone from the sd card... Theres only 2 folders there now. Lost.dir which has 4 numbered files in there. 36 37 35 and 1248... and the other is android with 2 folders called data and obb... is it too late to recover anything?