How to Fix SD Card Not Detected / Showing Up / Recognized? [Windows 10/8/7]
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Today’s video is going to help you resolve SD card not detected/showing up issue in Windows 10/8/7. Get the direct solutions via the timestamps or follow the text guides below.
Timestamps:
Solution 1: Check SD Card on Another Device 1:23s
Solution 2: Change the SD Card Drive Letter 2:25s
Solution 3: Run CHKDSK and Fix SD Card Errors 3:20s
Solution 4: Update SD Card Drivers 4:16s
Solution 5: Use an Antivirus to Check for Malware Attack 4:55s
Bonus: How to recover data from corrupted SD Card? 5:49s
How to Fix SD Card Not Detected / Showing Up / Recognized on Windows 10/7/8
There are several possible reasons that might trigger this issue of SD Card not detected, such as Poor Connection between PC and SD Card, Outdated SD Card Drivers, Damaged/Corrupt File System on SD Card, or Missing Drive Letter for SD Card. Fortunately, it’s not one of the critical issues and can be fixed easily. So, let us quickly take you through some workable solutions that will help you fix the “SD card not showing up” issue in Windows 7/8/10.
Solution 1: Check SD Card on Another Device
When your SD card is not reading, the first thing that you should do is to test the SD card on a different device. Testing your card on a different PC/smartphone would explain if you’re dealing with a damaged SD card or not. In case other devices are successfully recognizing the SD card, try replacing the SD card adapter you are using.
Solution 2: Change the SD Card Drive Letter
Step 1: Press Windows+X and click on “Disk Management”. Alternatively, you can open the Run dialog box and type “diskmgmt.msc” to open Disk Management.
Step 2: Right-click the SD Card partition and select “Change Drive Letter and Path”.
Step 3: Click “Add” to assign a letter to the SD Card.
Solution 3: Run CHKDSK and Fix SD Card Errors
Step 1: Launch Command Prompt as the Administrator. You can do this by typing “cmd” in the Run dialog box.
Step 2: Once you’re in the CMD window, execute the CHKDSK command, i.e., chkdsk H: / f. Make sure to replace “H” with your SD card’s letter.
CHKDSK will scan the SD card for bad partitioning and will automatically fix the issue.
Solution 4: Update SD Card Drivers
Step 1: Press “Windows + X” and click “Device Manager”.
Step 2: Expand the “Disk Drives” option and right-click the SD card driver.
Step 3: Click “Update Driver” and the system will automatically start looking for the most suitable drivers.
Solution 5: Use an Antivirus to Check for Malware Attack
If none of the previous methods helped you and the SD card is still not showing up Windows 10, your SD card is most likely dealing with a malware attack. In this case, you can install a third-party Antivirus program to detect and remove viruses from the SD card.
Bonus: How to recover data from corrupted SD Card?
Step 1: Connect SD card and get Recoverit launched and select the SD card’s location.
Step 2: Tap “Start” and it will start scanning the SD card for deleted files.
Step 3: Once the scanning process ends, you’ll see a list of deleted files. Select to preview the file and click Recover to retrieve the files from the SD card.
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None of these solutions will work if you insert the SD card and absolutely nothing happens but in the beginning of the video you stated that these solutions could fix that problem because it was in your list of possible problems. You can't scan a card that's not showing on your computer, you can't re-assign a drive letter for a drive that isn't showing that it even exists. None of these solutions are even possible if the drive isn't showing in the computer.
yeah, this wasn't helpful at all
yeah this is my issue. I'm using a USB card reader and I've tried a couple other micro sd cards and they all read fine except for the one card that made me find this video. The other cards appear normally in "My Computer" however the one I'm having difficulties with, appears greyed out as if the computer detects a device is in the drive but cant read or access it. I attempted each solution in the video but alas none of them work. Even tried formatting but that doesn't work because the computer can't read or access the card :(
This is my situation. Bought a microSD, had to format it. After the format it disappeared, now none of my devices can it read it. (cell phone or any of my pc's)
Who else hates it when they don’t get to the point and always start with random bs?
It makes them feel smarter.
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Every CZcams channel that makes money does this. It is just to connect with people who attend the videos often. This is pretty typical and is what gets people interested. You may just need to get better at skimming informational videos my dude instead of being salty.
Wife cut it off as I held gun to me head. Get to the point
I totally agree ... it's so annoying and such a waste of time ...
I hate these slow and long videos, which mainly linger for minutes just to raise watch time.
7 minutes is long?
Speed up the playback speed
And yet no time stamps lol
Me too
Making me feel old. Thinking a 7 minute long video is too long.
Here is my tip:
Most card readers have a switch on the left side (see the grey switch on the side at 6:57). Just move it down and insert once, then move back to the original up position and reinsert. Only this worked for me after trying various solutions for an hour, so maybe it could work for you too.
your tip really worked ! i only switched the grey thing down & my SD card straight away popped out on the laptop. thank god i came across to ur comment first. thank youu !
Yooo!! thx i was like saying should i switch that thing then i sayyed no it's just time wasting until I saw your comment and I tried it and it works
Thank you wish this was the first help i saw
Worked for me!!! Thanks a lot
Thank you 🙏🙏 it worked
Your first advice, of making sure the SD Card is not loose, actually fixed my issue. My Phone SD Frame is broken and sometimes after inserting it into my phone it doesn't settle in perfectly. After securing it with a layer of adhesive tape, it was fixed. Many Thanks.
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Can you show me how please?
Changing the file letter finally worked for me, thank you so much!
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@@RecoveritDataRecoverySoftware What do I do if it doesn't give me the option to "assign the following drive letter" ?
I only have the option of "Mount in the following empty NTFS folder"
Please respond :)
@@RecoveritDataRecoverySoftware Please help me 🙏The option change drive letter is not open And my command promt shows (access denied as you do not have sufficient privileges or the disk may be locked by another process. You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode and make sure that disk is unlocked) what can i do please help me 🙏
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Awesome, thank you!
The power of your video alone got the memory card reader working, wasn't doing anything, and when I started watching the video, the memory card drive window popped open. Thanks for the help
Lmao
Didn't work until I changed my Drive to another random letter, so weird haha. Thanks mate
THIS IS WHAT WORKED FOR ME
This one worked magically for me! I thought i had lost 64 GB on my new SDHC card and this tutorial worked volumes!
i'm in the same boat, only havent tried it yet. hope it works. Had so many pics and videos of my pup, but he has a terminal disease and so is declining. There are memories on that little disc that i cant retake.
Which method is helped you?
Above all else, make sure your laptop is fully updated. Non of the software fixes were working, so I was going to start buying USB SD drives. I was at a loss. I then went to check the time and see if I could make it to a store and noticed that Windows was pending updates requiring a restart. Needless to say, I restarted the computer and retried in a final last ditch effort. It worked!
With that said, it was still very informational very helpful. I learned a lot and I think I could assist if an altercation with an SD card occurred. Thank you for making these troubleshooting videos!
thanks a lot bruf, you saved all of my works
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You are a hero, thank you
I knew my sd card was fine! xD
Extra tip: I would recommend opening it with Rufus and formating it to non-bootable. I had issues with SD cards (and pendrives) after they were formatted to bootable drives - they wouldn't be properly recognized by windows afterwards. Would only be able to reformat them to non-bootable with special software like Rufus (that's meant to create bootable media).
Thank you so much this worked for me
dude this helped me so much, thank you!
thank you very much it just worked for me now!!!
@@mohammedidris232 I'm glad it helped you! The power of youtube and the internet! :)
Thank you very much, that helped me!!!
Thanks for the very helpful tutorial!
Saving forever! thank you so much, I was able to get into an SD card that I was certain I lost.
bruh it was a loose connection and i am looking and researching how to fix it LOL
We hope it is fixed!!!
hey there, do you have a corrupted sd card too army?
Thanks so much ! Unbelievable! Tried everything as SD stopped working. The command prompt trick worked! I was so upset as had all my photos on. I am not computer minded , so was so happy it worked. Huge thanks
Thank you so much! Changed the letter and it worked!
And what can you do if you don't see any letter ( in disk management ) for the memory card slot / device ( 3:08 ).
(crickets chirping) ...yet another useless video. Not a single helpful trick if the SD card is NOT DETECTED.
Hey, what about if my SD card doesn't appear either in disk partitions :)
Same
Buy new
Exactly
@@totobosssiodina4113 WTF HAHA I JUST BOUGHT NEW ONE
Take it out and put it back in
Changing the drive letter helped me finally after trying foru hours other methods! THANKS!
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Yesss in my case too.. Many thanks. 👍👍👍I was holding screwdriver...
Thanks for the tutorial.
An interesting problem I discovered was that some of the devices I had plugged into the other USB ports were using too much power. When I removed all the unneeded USB connections my SD card reader suddenly started working again.
I felt you r very happiest person and your life going smoothly....God bless u and stay safe stay healthy
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I need help with it. I put the sd card in a few minutes ago. and it worked. But then i filmed another video and put it in the computer and it didn't work. then I looked up this video and nothing seams to work for me.
The change letter technique worked for me. Thanks man
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assigning drive letter worked! By the way, if the "change drive letter " is greyed out, make sure you unlock the "readonly" switch on the side of the sd card, and voila! Thanks a million!
After a long time, and checking out the smaller SD slot, I realized that one of the pins of the lector was damaged, so it wont ever work =(
I noticed that you had a micro SD card inside an SD card . Don`t forget the switch on the side of the card...
Yes, unprotect supposedly helps recognize it sometimes. Then adding files or working with it and pc knows to expect it due to it being added to its registry.
thanks
Great logic! I subscribed, you got my attention. Thanks.
Thanks, man!! the cmd prompt worked!!! You got a subscriber dude!!
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the chkdsk command worked like a charm, saved us our entire vacation worth of photo storage. Thank you so much!
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Remember to back up your data to a second location! Cloud storage usually works.
3:45 what a life saver I can’t even begin to explain. I was at the verge of throwing my computer out the window
No seriously I’m so grateful you have no idea !!!!
"See I was on the verge of breaking down
Sometimes silence can seem so loud
There are miracles in life I must achieve
But first I know it starts inside of me, ho-oh"
Thank you sooooooooo much!! You are great!
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Thank you! For some reason the letter of my micro SD card was removed and when I assigned one again it started working :)
For some reason i can't add a drive letter, an error pops up. It tells me to refresh but It still doesn't work :(
Same he needs to respond to this situation
Just EXACTLY HOW do you find out which is the right drive?
man you gained a new subscriber!!!!! thank you very very much
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Thank you so much. Very helpful content.
PLEASE HELP!!! Great tutorial. However, I was not able to recover the data on my SD card so far. Just purchased the program and run it on my laptop. On the SD card driver selection, it says "Lost 1 partition", however it also says that I still have over of 29GB of data on the SD card. The most annoying thing during the scan is that about every 2-3 minutes it pauses and brings this window by saying: "there are many bad sectors in the disk that scan cannot continue. It is recommended that you restore the currently scanned files asap", and it's only 2% of all scan complete. Yet, I don't see any files listed to Recover. Please HELP...!!!! I need some advice on what to do. I need to recover this data. I would really appreciate your guidance on what to do next. Thank you
same problem, so i have decided to give my pen drive to data recovery companies, they re expensive but probaby their technical expertise can get back my data, hope for the best
So what do you do, when you know the port is good (other cards detect just fine) but when this one in question is inserted, Disk management hangs, windows explorer hangs, and programs that access the file system hangs. Pull the card back out, and windows explorer unhangs, disk management unhangs and everything goes back to normal. Plug the card back in and everything hangs again. It's not a new card, its 128gb in size (and its authentic) It's about 8 months old, and has not been accessed for about 6 months.
It has never worked to simply pull things out and plug them back in for any computer I have owned. If Windows 10 cannot detect one camera card it probably means it cannot detect other camera cards until after another update.
Thank you so much!!! this have worked for me...
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I think you forgot one of the main reasons people can't read micro sd cards on PC's. Most devices which use Micro cards ( like dash cams) use only Fat32 system, and yet PC's today all use NTFS. That is the problem. These days it seems Windows 10 is constantly updating and that always seems to change things within disk management in particular to all these removable device drives.
so what's needed to be done in that case if windows still doesn't read the sd card?
You are a life saver BRO!! Thank you so very much 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I tried the chkdsk and when I put in d: /f it said "cannot open volume for direct access"
it hapenned with me too
Same thing with me
Same. What now?
same here to ,but still no answer ?
Hi there. Thanks for the video. Well, I finally made it to the disk management and when I look below, It shows disk 0, which is the hard drive for the computer and below it, it says disk one removable and a letter (D) beside it and says no media below it. For some reason it is just not recognizing the card, but it does recognize the card in a way. Because when I pull the card reader out containing the 32 gb SD card, it disappears. The USB works because it shows my thumb drive when I plug it in and it comes up in the Disk Management and shows the size. Any tips or suggestions? Thanks.
Thanks for the tutorial. That was great. The CHKDSK fixed my issue.
Great to hear!
Dude, if the sd card isn't showing up, the we can't type in the drive letter in cmd because it doesn't show anything sd card.
Hi Munkee, that is why we have shared other methods as well. You can try out those.
That's not the point, the method of changing the drive letter can't be done since the whole point is the drive isn't showing up. So this method isn't actually a method for this purpose to begin with, which makes many of the other methods un-usable.
@@TheMunkeeBone I think the card has become unusable due to a hardware issue like a spike or might have run its course. Replacement only would be the solution as the card cannot be accessed at all. It's as good as no card. 😔
just gave an air blow to sd card slot, it worked after trying dozen of drivers and softwares. Looser am I feelin rn!
Is it fixed now??
IT WORKED!!!! UNBELIEVABLE. Thanks for the comment. It worked greatly.
@@RecoveritDataRecoverySoftware yess working fine.
Adding partition letter worked for me, thanks!
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Your first solution to run disk manager and add a drive letter was the solution. Voila! Great job.
I was freaking out for 4 days until I found your video and tried a few things out. Thank you man! You're a life saver!
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Did it actually work or a scam?
Man after working on this problem for a few hours I realized all I needed to do was push the MicroSD in a little harder smh
this comment saved me so much trouble thank u lol
Thank you! Very helpful! I needed to assign a letter to the drive
The first solution fixed it, thank you so much!
lmfao so i literally just started putting it in and out, then just bang my laptop a little AND IT WORK XD
Good to hear that!!!!
lol, me too. Maybe troubleshooting while this video triggers it to work cause I did do the same thing before playing the video and nothing happened. Hence I was here. lol
btw, I only subed because I use Filmora to edit videos. Hope there are filmora tips and tricks also from the channel.
Lol me too
Dude when i was a kid i bang my laptop bruhhh it got destroyed when i open it it says something is damage and u cant open it .-. Until now
lol me too :D:D:D
How to remove a virus from our SD card????
Deleat it is that ezy are y a baby
@@allamchele69 😂
Thank you so much bro!!!! You are a life saver.
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Short and sweet, thanks for posting this video. My issue was the second one in, change drive letter. 😀
Hi there,
Could you please elaborate on your question? We're glad to help.
no mater what device i used Mobile or PC or anything it will not be Detected it's like there no sd card at all and it was working 100% in my old Mobile but after a year i try to teak the Data from it will not be detected
Same
My computer isn't reading my sd card, how do you think I'm doing...lol
also on phone
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solution 3 saved me today. thank you for this!
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Thank you so much, helped a lot.. my solution was with changing disk letter and problem solved
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I somehow got it working by refreshing the disks in disk management. Wasn't on the tutorial, but related. Good Job
Thank you so much. Appreciate your help !.
Thank you. It works. Love it so much.
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Thank you🙃it helped
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Please I need your help
If am not wrong I guess assigning drive letter fix was my idea lol 😁 ! Great Video
One Of My popular video 🙏
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Option 3 worked!!! Thanks so much!!!
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This fixed my issue. Thank you!
Thanks mate.. Changing the SD card drive letter did the trick..
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Great fixes and easy to follow.
The Solution number 3 worked for me! Thank you very much! You saved my memories!
Thanks so much! Assigning a drive letter fixed my problem! So glad I don't have to buy new SD card readers 😁😁
Wow, it was that easy? Just adding a letter fixed my issue in literally seconds. Thank you for the help! 😭
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thank you! mine worked with updating the drivers.
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@@RecoveritDataRecoverySoftware no
Hey sir this video has helped me out before a couple months ago but now I am back here because my microsoft store isn't picking up the sd card any suggestions for fixing this
i just updated the software, and I've been watching one video earlier and after that all my files on sd card are gone (even the sd card) .. i removed it on the tray and tried to reboot but nothing happens. it doesn't showw "preparingg sd card"
Video helped, I subbed. TY
Thanks, you solved my problem 2 minutes in. Used a cheap USB adapter.
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Thank you so much. changing the letter did it for me
Google linked me to this video and indeed it was a Drive Letter issue. Many thanks for a quick answer!
Thank you! Adding a drive letter fixed it immediately!
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@@RecoveritDataRecoverySoftware I can’t add a drive letter
oh my god thanks! when i opened disk management i saw no data was allocated to my sd card... i just created an allocation and it works! thanks man!
must it go all the way in the slot, mine is still sticking the half out
. I did try to push but it seemed at its end
Solution 2 fits my situation, really thankful!
thank you soooooo mush it actually help me by changing the dive letter
Thank you! Assigning a letter (disk mgmt) to my micro SD card solved my problem.
Glad to be helpful.
Thank you. I no longer have to have an sd reader plugged in via USB.
I had to open up Disk Management and assign a drive letter to get a specific SD card to work. Other cards worked and this one even worked in a usb sd reader so I knew it must be something in windows.
Hi there,
Could you please elaborate on your question? We're glad to help.
chkdsk found and corrected an error in the boot region of my 64GB MicroSD card. Thank you for the tip.
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holy crap, the chkdsk in the command menu thing actually worked! It even saved my files! Badass, thank you for making this video!
Thank you so much!!! I just needed to change a drive letter 💯💯 great video!!! You save my life literally haha
loveee it, you made ma day
keep up the good work
NICE bro...
I having frustration about corrupt file...
And now...solve problem...
Txs brothe...
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Hi Mike, as usual bringing the best stuff and solutions. A couple of MicroSD Cards “Recover(ed)”, thanks a lot!
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
Thanks, one of your tips worked.
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You've missed one important issue which you did not cover. The SD card reader itself. Prusa isn't using the best quality reader. Seems the metal prongs that make contact with the SD card's contact points become bent, rendering the reader useless. Rather than ordering a new one from Prusa, (unplug the printer), shine a flashlight (it's easier to just take the LCD card out of the case) into the SD card reader slot to see which prong/s are bent. Take a narrow metal tool and bend the prong back to the original position, like the other prongs within the reader.
Thanks for the input.