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Help recovering old microSD card

FaiL___
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Hi all, I was just going through some boxes and found an old microSD card from about a year or two ago. I was going to see if I could format it and use it again, since my drone's 4GB microSD fills up very fast, but when I plugged it into my laptop, it is registering it is there, but I cannot do anything about it, not even format it. Please have a look at the image to help. The terminal is just blocking the serial number. Cheers in advance.

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Might be bricked. I did this to a USB drive and the same thing was happening. Just throw it out.

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3 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Might be bricked. I did this to a USB drive and the same thing was happening. Just throw it out.

Fair enough, gonna try formatting with Rufus, but if that doesn't work, out it goes

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6 hours ago, FaiL___ said:

Fair enough, gonna try formatting with Rufus, but if that doesn't work, out it goes

It's not that big of a loss even if you can't get back into it. I tried literally everything to get into my USB and it wouldn't work.

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Hello FaiL___, 

 

If it is still readable you can try to recover with Recuva and hopefully find oldie files in the card: Free Download

 

As to the format with Rufus, try formatting in exFAT since that's the format optimized for these types of memory cards. 

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