Well we all know they do, and if you dont you should do.
Just had another one fail, thats 2 now since Xmas, and where not talking rubbish ones either, genuine SanDisk Extreme 64gb.
Pulled it from a switch off Android, into the PC, hmm, thats not right, fuffed around for a while, ejecting, re mount it etc, soon become apparent some thing was wrong, 59gb storage, 59gb free, and a load off garbled file names on there, hmm, back in the Android just in case, nope same deal, back in the PC, now running CHKDSK etc, no joy, ok, thats f**ked then.
Now I do do Backs Ups, once a week with PC stuff, but If Im totatally honest with myself, I couldn't remember the last I backed this SD Card up,
, so theres bound to some Photos, Docs and other crap thats on there that may not be backed for a while, OneDrive, and some other Cloud stuff I use should have done its job, yea right
, so that should lust leave any Docs and Files I stored since last back.
So, ready to Format, I then released some old Utilities I used to use, EaseUs Data Recovery, but unfortunately thieve changed the rules and the newer Free version only lets you recover 500mb now without paying ransom money, as do most of these Apps, not much good for a 64gb Card, then remember another one from our friends of CCleaner, Piriform Recuva Free Version, so gave that a go, 2 hours later of scanning, hey presto, recovered over 100gb of Data (the more than 64GB size is due to previous over written stuff on the Card), so selected what I wanted to recover across to the PC, pretty much recovered what I needed, so job done and on this occasion lucky.
If you want to download for a rainy day -
https://www.piriform.com/recuva