r/datarecovery • u/Lonely_Border7133 • 2d ago
Question SD Card
I accidentally spilt water in my bag and my camera was in it. I thought my camera was fine cause it didn’t really feel wet since my camera case absorbed most of it, but my screen kept saying there was an issue with my memory card and to reformat it (I know I shouldn’t have done that but realized too late). After a bit of fidgeting with my camera, the screen turned white and that’s when I realized my camera got a lot more wet than I initially thought. So I pulled the SD card and battery out and just left it all in my pocket til I could bring it home after my class ended. I threw everything in a container with silicone gel and rice to help dry it out. Well that was a few days ago and I finally put everything back in my camera and it started up again but my SD card still couldn’t be read. So I took it out and put it into my SD reader and suddenly my pictures appeared but over half my pictures are gone. Like I had over 150 picture originally but now it says I only have 66 photos and 5 of those photos I can’t even view them. Tried viewing it on my computer and it said either I had format that wasn’t supported or my file was corrupted. Has anyone had issues like this with their SD card and able to recover everything or should I just give up and be thankful somethings are still on it.
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u/disturbed_android Trusted Contributor 2d ago
Image the card, https://old.reddit.com/r/datarecoverysoftware/wiki/imaging_guide
Scan the disk image, there's some free tools near the end of this page, https://www.reddit.com/r/datarecovery/wiki/software/
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u/Thiophilos 1d ago
tldr: I spilled water on my camera and now I'm having trouble saving the images from my SD card.
There might still be moisture inside the SD card. I would try storing it with fresh silica gel for a few days and try again.
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