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The problem is a lot of people see ads for these on social media media and buy them not knowing anything about them. Then come here at the first sign of something not working without doing any investigation as to what can be done to fix it.
Hello everyone, so I got a Homebrew 3DS some time ago with many games installed on it.
The system worked quite long, for almost 2 years, but 1 day when I normally started the 3DS this issue showed up “Could not detect an SD Card.”
I cleaned the metallic part carefully, still no change.
Then I thought maybe it’s the SD Card where the problem lies, so I bought a new one and transferred all data on to it… unfortunately it’s the same issue showing up.
Is a data on the card maybe corrupted and how could I detect it? Does someone had a similar issue and was able to fix it? I would appreciate any help and answer 🙂
Big thanks
Formatting usually means a “quick” format and doesn’t actually wipe all the data; only a full format which takes a lot longer would do that.
STOP USING THE STOCK MICRO SD CARDS Buy a reliable Micro SD card, go to the website and flash the corresponding firmware on the new Micro SD. If the new firmware download doesn’t have the games, just copy and paste the ROM folder from the old onto the new.
Format once is bad enough, but often recoverable. Format twice is erase everything to an unrecoverable state. I would question if a pro company could extract anything, but DIY you won’t find anything anymore.
I have had some situations where I was able to compare Recuva <> R-Studio. This was about deleted files purely (so no RAW, formatted etc.). R-Studio outperformed Recuva significantly.
Good suggestion by Betty.
if you still not sure about it just call around some data recovery companies, better yet, send them your photo, they either gonna refuse to even take it in or will take it in just for you to have to pay diagnostics fee and be told that recovery is not possible
I am not sure what to do and Google has only confused me.
I have an SD card that appears fine physically. However when I place it in 3 different computers it doesn’t read. My camera won’t recognize it either.
I have tried a recovery software to no avail. Though that did fix another of my SD cards. I am missing 1000s of pics on these 2 SD cards and am unsure of the next steps. Any assistance in guiding me to a fix(or even a professional recovery service) would be much appreciated.
Recovery chances are very low. memory crystal pretty much either runs the length of the card or sits at the end if the card (there are some variations depending on the model), but if you broke a few millimeters or more its pretty much a guarantee you broke said memory crystal too and so there are no data to recover cos you pretty much don’t have anything left that you could recover said data from, here are some links that show exposed crystal on some micro sd cards or how direct chip data recovery is done so you could get some idea about it
You can check for some free recovery tools, but it also depends on the file format, deletion scenario, and the memory device.
Besides, overwritten data isn’t recoverable. But if you can see these recordings intact in the preview, there’s also a good chance they are just thumbnails. So double-check in the hex viewer.
i have an sd card that i dropped into a fountain, wiped and put into a camera where i formatted it twice (dumb ik, i was drunk) and i really want those files back, there are a bunch of videos that i need. i put it through photo rec and a lot of them recovered as 7kb and wouldn’t open. what are my chances looking like? I can’t pay $200 to get them professionally extracted so im trying to find other options or does it look like they can’t be recovered?
Also: The camera used was a Sony ZV1!
Same here. From what I understand, it uses another working video from the same device to rebuild the corrupted one. Not sure how reliable it is though.
Yeah, I’ve seen that suggestion too. It usually comes up when the video is badly corrupted, like when recording stops abruptly. But I’ve never personally tried it.
One thing people underestimate with BitLocker partitions is how risky “trial-and-error fixes” can become. I’ve seen users permanently damage recovery chances just by using random CMD commands or repartition tools before attempting proper recovery. Always recover the important files first before trying repairs.
Forget it and geta new one. This ones gone.