How to Repair Memory Card and Pen drive in Simple Step

Dealing with a corrupted SD card or pen drive is a tedious task.

we spend hours to get back our storage into condition but get nothing.
this article comprises various methods that will help you repair your corrupted pen drive or SD card.

for SD card, you will have to insert it into the slot provided in your computer or by using a card reader. use adapter if you have a MicroSD card. it will not work if you connect some device having the SD card like a smartphone or a camera. check out these different methods.

Change the drive letter 

sometimes your computers is unable to assign drive letters (like C, D, E) to your storage media. Dua to the region the files on it can't be accessed. To resolve this issue, you can assign the drive letter to your device.

Here are the simple steps to fix the corrupted pen drive or memory card by assigning a correct drive letter:

1. connect your storage media to your computer.
2. Right-click on my computer/ this pc. click manage in the drop-down menu.
3. click disk management on the left side and wait for a few seconds so that windows can load the virtual disk service.
4. right-click on your storage media and click change drive letter and paths.
5. click the drive letter (it will turn blue) and click change.
6. select the drive letter from the drop-down list. click ok.


repair corrupted pen drive or SD card using CMD

this process involves the Windows command prompt which is commonly known as CMD. in this you have to enter some CMD commands and Windows will forcefully format your corrupted pen drive/SD card.

   1. connect the corrupted pen drive or SD card to your computer.
   2. hover your mouse on the Start button and right-click.
   3. click command prompt (Admin). A CMD window will open.
   4. type diskpart and enter.
   5. type list disk and press enter, A list of all the storage devices connected to your computer will be displayed.
   6. type select disk<the number of your disk> and press enter. (example: select disk 1).               important: make sure you enter the number correctly. otherwise, you may formate your internal hard drive. you can type list disk again to check whether you are going correctly.         there will be a star (asterisk symbol) before the name of the selected disk.
   7. type clean and press enter.
   8. type create partition primary and hit enter.
   9. type active.
  10. type select partition 1.
  11. type formate fs=fat32 and press enter. the format process will finish in a few minutes. you can write NTFS instead of fat32 if you want to carry files larger than 4 gigabytes. don't close the CMD.


Recover your lost data 

you can use SanDisk rescue pro to recover your data in case you have deleted your files or formatted your SD card/pen drive by mistake. the SD card needs to be in working condition to perform the recovery process. Another notable data recovery software is Recuva by piriform.