How to format corrupted sd card and fix it
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SD card get corrupted? Can I format corrupted sd card to fix it? Don’t worry, you can find answers here to recover the corrupted sd card.
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SD card get corrupted and cannot format
“My sd card got corrupted when I tried to open it on my computer yesterday, I have been using the sd card for a long time, I guess it was get damaged after a long time use. When I tried to read the sd card, the system ask me to format the drive before I can use it. But I when I click the format option to format the sd card, the system says Windows failed to complete the format. Then how can I format the corrupted sd card?”
When SD card get corrupted, it will be inaccessible, and the system will ask you to format the sd card before you can use it. You can try to format the device if you don’t have important data on it. If Windows fails to complete the format, you can try CMD command prompt.
Or your sd card may have write protection, you may unlock it at first from physical unlock button
Also read: how to format write protected sd card
How to format corrupted sd card using cmd
When an sd card gets corrupted, the file system will become raw. It can not be recognized by Windows. So you need to format the sd card from raw file system into NTFS, FAT32, exFAT. If Windows fail to complete the format, you can use CMD diskpart, the system operation tool to make it.
Attention:
Format the SD card using CMD diskpart clean up all the data on the SD card, if you have important data on the device, you’d better to recover data first.
Steps to format the corrupted sd card with CMD diskpart are as follows
Step1: Run CMD and type diskpart in the cmd.
Format the corrupted sd card with cmd diskpart
Step2: Type“format X: /fs:fat32”(X is the drive letter of your corrupted sd card), or you may try the following diskpart command lines.
Format the corrupted sd card with cmd diskpart
After this done, type” exit” to finish, then you can check your device at Disk Management module, the file system will become FAT32, you can also change it to NTFS.
Video - How to format sd card fat32
Also read: 5 free sd card formatter
Format corrupted sd card without losing data
If you need the data on the corrupted sd card, you need to recover data first. Here I recommend iCare Data Recovery Pro, an effective data recovery program. It can recover all your data on the device unless you have rewritten it.
Then follow the steps to recover your data on the corrupted sd card.
Step1: Download and install iCare Data Recovery on your computer, you can learn more at the iCare Recovery website.
Step2: Run the program, enter “Deep Scan Recovery”.
Recover data from corrupted sd card with iCare Data Recovery Pro
Step3: Preview the found data, select your data, choose to recover, and save to another place.
Recover data from corrupted sd card with iCare Data Recovery Pro
iCare Data Recovery Pro can also recover data from formatted device, but you’d better to recover data first, which can ensure the data security.
And then you may format sd card in computer by disk management, or right click sd card and get it formatted in file explorer. 
Note: Windows built-in programs cannot format sd card over 32gb to fat32. You need to use third party format tools such as IM-Magic Partition Resizer or Rufus to get the sd formatted to fat32 file system.
Also read: 6 free sd card format tools or how to format sd card fat32
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