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Storage Card contents dissapeared. Help!

all of a sudden i realized my storage card's content (2GB) just dissapeared.
I have over half of my non OEM programs installed on it and i cannot use them.
has this happened to anyone before?
how do i fix this?
thanks

Well... It happened to me in some way, but after about a minute all was back again. Don't really know why. Maybe soft reset would help?

I had that issue a while ago, apparently it was gone, but the space was still occupied. I didn't find a solution so i had to reformat it and it never happened again.

This exact same thing happened to me yesterday; all of a sudden, when using Resco Explorer, all of the contents of my storage card disappeared. The card looked blank. However, it also still looked like the space was occupied - meaning I did not have 6 GB of free/empty space - just no content. I re-formatted the card on my desktop and am re-syncing now but I have no idea how or why this happened. I have not recently installed any new software.

Nothing disappeared. Turn off the phone, take the card out and put it back in, then turn the phone on. Did you even soft reset first?

ronfin44 said:
Nothing disappeared. Turn off the phone, take the card out and put it back in, then turn the phone on. Did you even soft reset first?
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Tried it didnt work. I guess i have to re format

This happened to me and it was from a loose card and a soft reset found my data.

Soft reset didnt help. I tried a hard reset and Nothing. Its like my device cannot recognise my sd card at all. when i check in the setting it says the storage card is not installed.
what do i do?

I can say that it happened to me because I installed a P2P program and it froze and I had to reset. THen my sotrage card got messed up.
It's like any flash memory. If it's in the middle of writing and your phone gets turned off or something then you will corrupt your data. I don't know if you can buy some third party program to get your stuff back. maybe.

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I had this problem too.....Here's a couple of things you can do
1) take out sd card , take compressed air and blow a little air inside where sd card goes , put card back in and do it slowly wiggle it ever so slightly , take out sd card and do this one more time , this worked for me.
2) in file explorer under "storage card" look for a file called " MSMETADATA ...and DELETE it for some reason this file freezes your device from reading you card
3) go to windows media player and go to library and update your library , see if your sd card shows up there , thats the way I knew my phone was reading my card
4) bad card....I have had a bad card before and it was doing the same , I bought a new one and things got better
good luck my friend
mike

this happened several times on my 8525, and once on my tilt. I've never pinpointed exactly what happened, but it IS a big problem that was supposedly fixed by HTC on the tilt.
I stuck the card in my computer and ran some data recovery tools. They dont always work, but you get lucky sometimes. I then formated the card and copied the data back.

ronfin44 said:
Nothing disappeared. Turn off the phone, take the card out and put it back in, then turn the phone on. Did you even soft reset first?
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I turned the phone on and off several times and did several soft resets; I also went into Windows Media Player and attempted to update my library but it would not read my storage card. Neither would the "HTC Audio" program, or CorePLayer, or Resco File Explorer/Photo Viewer; nothing would even recognize the card. Also, when I used a card reader in my PC nothing appeared either. I had to re-format and re-copy my files.

Hey guys, thanks for your advise.
Im gonna buy a new microSD card and see if my kaiser recognises it. Hopefully it does. If so thats great.
Just hope its not the phone with the problem.
i'll let u know whats up

by reformat...do u mean hard reset?

Try this:
With the card in a read/writer or adapter that works (not the phone), go into DOS: Start>Program Files>Accessories>Command Prompt or Start>Run and type in CMD and Okay.
Change the directory to C: drive (i.e. cd\C: )
Type chkdsk e: /f /r at the c: prompt (e: is whatever your card drive is).
Let it run. If it asks about saving a file, you may as well say NO as it will be corrupted or a partial file.
Then EXIT and try the card. Data, for the most part, should still be there and not destructed like FORMAT will do.
Mack

bluemamba said:
by reformat...do u mean hard reset?
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No - by re-format I mean I inserted the card into a card reader and re-formatted it as "FAT32" on my desktop PC. I tried to do his on my phone first with SK Tools and MemMaid but neither would recognize the card.

Well. My SDcard (scandisk) is not recognised by my phone or my card reader, so i could not format it.
I bought a new Kingston one and my phone recognises it.
I guess it was the card after all.

Mack5305 said:
Try this:
With the card in a read/writer or adapter that works (not the phone), go into DOS: Start>Program Files>Accessories>Command Prompt or Start>Run and type in CMD and Okay.
Change the directory to C: drive (i.e. cd\C: )
Type chkdsk e: /f /r at the c: prompt (e: is whatever your card drive is).
Let it run. If it asks about saving a file, you may as well say NO as it will be corrupted or a partial file.
Then EXIT and try the card. Data, for the most part, should still be there and not destructed like FORMAT will do.
Mack
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I had the same problem: after something went wrong with an install file from my card on my Kaiser, all files on the card were deleted.
I was able to retreive the card content on my PC (from a card reaceder) with the free program "PC Inspector File Recovery".
After that, I restored the content to the card. I performed a checkdisk (see Mack5305 above). I then removed the directory MSMETADATA.
After this, I could use the card again.

Help? How do you retrieve erased information from SD Card?

Does anyone know how to retrieve items accidentally deleted from a SD Card because of a hard reset? I had so many photos and I would like to see if I can get them back.

You'll hav to get a 3rd party application to do it and you're not promised to get them back. It scans the whole card and just takes forever.

Dreashines said:
Does anyone know how to retrieve items accidentally deleted from a SD Card because of a hard reset? I had so many photos and I would like to see if I can get them back.
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a Hard reset would not delete files on your SD card. You must have had the photos saved to your phone memory.

AllTheWay said:
a Hard reset would not delete files on your SD card. You must have had the photos saved to your phone memory.
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I thought that it wouldn't erase them either. I have done hard resets before and my items were never erased before. I made sure everything I wanted to keep was on the memory card for this reason. But for some reason this time it erased everything. I guess this was one of those freak accidents. This is why I am asking for help.
I appreciate any help on this issue.

You did something wrong then because there's no logical way they could've erased that way. On the other side, you should have followed flashing procedures by removing the memory card and sim

Your so right, kareem9nba. I should have known better. Thank you for your help.

This is why every week, I copy all the contents of my SD card (where I keep everything) To my Desktop PC in a folder I call "SDBackup" I've working with Computer long enough to know, if you don't have a backup, you are asking for trouble.
People call this Murphy's Law.

I had an issue similar to this that scared the crap out of me.
I took my SD card out of my phone, powered off beforehand, and then loaded it into my speedy microSD adapter so I could copy lots of data from my computer to it. Upon inserting the card into my monitor's SD reader, Vista gave me to "You must format this card before it can be used" message.
It took 3 removals and reinsertions to get my PC and my Tilt to see the files again. I promptly backed up my files and did a full format on my storage card. Everything's been fine since.

Im a little more paranoid and do it at least once every couple of days, just because Im on the forum alot and frequently see horror stories where people end up losing alot of their stuff.

Active File Recovery 7.3 Build 101
Very Interesting Question that made me perform a new expirement
to answer your question directly best thing is to use a 3rd party application called Active File Recovery 7.3 Build 101 it will recover data even after format or delete by mistake.
but in your case its not necessary - hard reset only delete internal storge (sd card data is intact)
i did an expirement ( i stored photos and documents in my phone) and i performed a hard reset... i used Active File Recovery 7.3 Build 101 and guess what i managed to retrieve the TOC of my INTERNAL STOREAGE but not the files... but i guess if i looked for a more powerful application i could retrieve the files themselves
i flashed new rom and used Active File Recovery 7.3 Build 101 (resulting 0 files or 0 TOC to retrieve)
conclusion of my experiment that may not relate 100% with your question is if you hard rest (some of your data can be retireved) if you flash new rom or reflash a rom (0 data can be accessed) using commercial softwares
best luck and look for our experts comments
Dreashines said:
Does anyone know how to retrieve items accidentally deleted from a SD Card because of a hard reset? I had so many photos and I would like to see if I can get them back.
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all undelete programs which works on pc's harddisks works just the same on a sdcard in a sdcard reader connected to a pc
there are plenty and many free
google is the answer

Kaiser can't read my microSD card

Help! My Kaiser can't read my memory card!
After having transferred a few media files to my Kaiser's microSD card using Activesync's "explore" function, I noticed some folders with gibberish names had been generated in the My Documents folder. I tried opening some of them and found nothing in them. I dismissed this and continued with the file transfer. The strangely-named files eventually disappeared
Shortly after, I disconnected the Kaiser from my laptop, and started the Audio Manager, as I was on my way to the gym. An error message popped up saying the "file Audio Manager cannot be opened..."
I can't remember what prompted me to do so, but I opened the File Manager and discovered that my Storage Card was not registering anymore. That said, I had to settle with the gym's crappy music, instead of my the playlists on my Kaiser
Coming back from the gym I popped the memory card (2GB Kingston microSD) into my card reader and my laptop was able to read all its contents.
This morning I tried a friend's microSD card (same make & model) and my Kaiser still couldn't read it.
Is this a hardware or software problem? If the latter, how can I rectify this?
Thanks in advance for any input.

Put it in your computer's card reader and do a filesystem check.

rigelstuff said:
Help! My Kaiser can't read my memory card!
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Watch out because Kaisers are well known for loosing whats on a microSD card (I've had this happen 3 times now) so I hope you have backed up everything of importance on your card before going any further.
I can't remember what prompted me to do so, but I opened the File Manager and discovered that my Storage Card was not registering anymore. That said, I had to settle with the gym's crappy music, instead of my the playlists on my Kaiser
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I cant help with changing the gyms music but when you say "wasn't registering anymore" do you mean no files were showing in file manager (ie possibly corrupted/lost files - you never mentioned if you checked the file integrity on your laptop) or that under settings => memory => storage card tab, nothing is showing (whats in there)?
Is this a hardware or software problem? If the latter, how can I rectify this?
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If it's software try a soft reset and if that doesn't fix it then back up your data and perform a hard reset (make sure the card is out of the device when you do this) - this is the Windows Mobile equivalent of running a recovery CDROM on a desktop PC and it will restore your devices files and settings to an 'as from the factory' state (assuming you've not changed the ROM/Radio or SPL since). Let us know how you get on.

Flying Kiwi said:
Watch out because Kaisers are well known for loosing whats on a microSD card (I've had this happen 3 times now) so I hope you have backed up everything of importance on your card before going any further.
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I wasn't able to do a backup (didn't have Sprite Backup installed yet), but have manually saved all the files to my laptop.
Flying Kiwi said:
when you say "wasn't registering anymore" do you mean no files were showing in file manager (ie possibly corrupted/lost files - you never mentioned if you checked the file integrity on your laptop) or that under settings => memory => storage card tab, nothing is showing (whats in there)?
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"Storage Card" doesn't show up in File Manager at all. I'll try doing a file system check on my laptop.
Flying Kiwi said:
If it's software try a soft reset and if that doesn't fix it then back up your data and perform a hard reset (make sure the card is out of the device when you do this) - this is the Windows Mobile equivalent of running a recovery CDROM on a desktop PC and it will restore your devices files and settings to an 'as from the factory' state (assuming you've not changed the ROM/Radio or SPL since). Let us know how you get on.
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Already did a soft reset several times, didn't help. I was hoping to avoid doing a hard reset, but if it's the only way...
Much thanks for all your input

Sprite Backup not reqd for microSD backup
rigelstuff said:
I wasn't able to do a backup (didn't have Sprite Backup installed yet), but have manually saved all the files to my laptop.
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It's easier than that... If you have Win XP (and probably Vista has an equivalent option), there is an often under utilised program under Start => Accessories => System Tools called 'Backup'. If you put your microSD card into it's USB reader, this program will do everything you need and it's very simple to use.
"Storage Card" doesn't show up in File Manager at all.
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I understand that but what appears under start => settings => memory => storage card tab (tap those in that order)?
I'll try doing a file system check on my laptop.
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As already suggested by khaytsus, that'd be a good idea to try before going down the last ditch hard reset route.

Flying Kiwi said:
It's easier than that... If you have Win XP (and probably Vista has an equivalent option), there is an often under utilised program under Start => Accessories => System Tools called 'Backup'. If you put your microSD card into it's USB reader, this program will do everything you need and it's very simple to use.
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Interesting... thanks for this. There aren't really any critical files in my memory card, so a simple copy of whatever's in the My Documents folder will do.
Flying Kiwi said:
I understand that but what appears under start => settings => memory => storage card tab (tap those in that order)?
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Make that "memory => System => storage card..." ;-)
Nothing shows in the storage card tab. That's what I meant when I said the phone doesn't recognise the card.
Flying Kiwi said:
As already suggested by khaytsus, that'd be a good idea to try before going down the last ditch hard reset route.
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Thanks.

rigelstuff said:
Interesting... thanks for this. There aren't really any critical files in my memory card, so a simple copy of whatever's in the My Documents folder will do.
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The advantage with using backup is it automatically throws it all into a simple single archive and saves things such as the label on your card but yes if you have a simple set up a straight copy is an option. Bottom line is that additional software isn't needed for microSD card backups.
Make that "memory => System => storage card..." ;-)
Nothing shows in the storage card tab. That's what I meant when I said the phone doesn't recognise the card.
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Yes, you're right I missed the 'System'. Thats the place where I'd trust more than file explorer to actually indicate whether the card is being read. Let us know how you get on!

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rigelstuff said:
Help! My Kaiser can't read my memory card!
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Thanks in advance for any input.
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I tested a friend's card from his TyTN II and put it into my phone and there was still no memory card detected. I gave him my card, and his phone was able to detect it.
I finally did a hard reset, reformatted my card, and the phone still can't detect the card!
It seems the problem may well be hardware-related. Looks like I'll have to send my phone in to HTC to be checked.
Thanks again to everyone who chimed in. 'will still give an update on how things go.
ta

Got my unit back from the HTC service centre. They had to replace the part that contacts the memory card. The old one was toast. And to think I've only had this phone for just over a year now.
Had to pay about USD120 for the part

i've had my memory card not read all the files on it two times now but recently i've kept the file heirarchy intact and havent made any new folders on the phone and it seems to be ok

[SOLVED][Q][YetAnother]SD car has been unexpectedly removed. (FOR REAL)

Hello.
This is my first post.
I have seen the noob video, I know I am not special. And still:
I have searched the forums, but my problem is different. Most of the posters don't know what caused this error. I know what caused mine. I have actually unexpectedly removed the SD Card. Kind of. Funny story: transferring data (green bar on windows not loaded at all, window stuck on calculating time/finding files etc -technically no data has been transferred), windows explorer decides to go all "Not responding" on me (thank you microsoft). The genius in me tells me to unplug the phone, so I do. Yay! explorer.exe is ok now. Too bad my SD card isn't.
There are some files on it... but none of the folders that I created, so I lost everything except photos and stuff. I have backed them up on my PC. When I connect my phone (which I have to do manually by going into USB settings so that my PC recognizes anything -auto play doesn't appear anymore-), instead of showing up as my phone, it shows up as a media device with stuff on it (folders like Android, DCIM, but none of my manually created folders containing music etc.).
I repeat, I have actually unexpectedly removed my SD card.
I right clicked on the drive in the PC and clicked Format. It warned me. I didn't care, I was desperate. In just one second, it said formatting complete. No files missing, however (still those Android, DCIM etc. folders).
I have a Samsung Galaxy S Advance GT-I9070 (this forum section, I think). I have flashed the I9070XXLQ4 (android 4.1.2) from Russia on it (a few weeks ago). Not root, or any custom ROM's.
Recap. I have unexpectedly removed my SD card. I want my games back. Or at least formatting it, making it usable.
Formatting the SD card from the phone settings has done it. I am a noob.

try formatting the sdcard on your phone thru the settings>storage..
re-download all your games or transfer them on the sdcard after the format.. if you have back up on your pc or other storage..
as for your pc.. try a reboot.. to correct the drivers of your phone as storage device..

jaycm1130 said:
try formatting the sdcard on your phone thru the settings>storage..
re-download all your games or transfer them on the sdcard after the format.. if you have back up on your pc or other storage..
as for your pc.. try a reboot.. to correct the drivers of your phone as storage device..
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Thanks, I've managed to do that before you posted (but I'm a noob and I can't edit posts so quickly). It did it. Although I was hoping not to lose everything.

vici30 said:
Thanks, I've managed to do that before you posted (but I'm a noob and I can't edit posts so quickly). It did it. Although I was hoping not to lose everything.
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is your sdcard a genuine one?.. no offense.. but there are a lot of fake sdcards in the market today..
actually i have a fake one.. its 8gb.. now, half of it is corrupted already.. my tablet hung due to it..

Hi guys.
I hope it's not the wrong thing to revive this old thread.
I was recently installing an RUU onto my phone. After the install completed, the phone restarted and it began checking the SD card again for an RUU - and it found one, as I had not by then removed/renamed it. So, after waiting for it to verify the RUU, selecting "no" to installing it, it restarted again and again it started looking for an RUU. By this time, I was getting impatient, so I tried to remove the SD card quickly before any actual data access happened.
WRONG
My SD card became RAW, inaccessible to Android or Windows. Testdisk and various free versions of paid-for undelete tools (like EaseUS) found only files from waaaaay back, before I had ever used the card in Android. As a precaution, I took two RAW copies of the full card onto two harddisks and compared the MD5 of each (match).
A little wary of the risk of using various features of testdisk, I thought the best thing to do next was a format (not quick format) to exFAT in windows and run all the undelete tools again. No results. Then I found this thread and, as suggested, tried formatting using Android. All software returned no results again.
What else can I do? The contents of the card should still be as they were (unless the formatting twice effected that). Am I correct to assume that the card (128gb) would have been formatted exFAT by Android 5/6?
In testdisk, are "superblock" or "boot" forms of recovery any relevance to me?
Thank you!
(PS: Android is working fine, I'm only having problems with the SD card contents)

Files disappear after failed MTP transfer

This is weird and probably not relevant to anyone, just thought I would put it out there.
I backup apps before I update from Play Store, so that I can roll back if there is any problem with a new version. Cleverly, I decided it was time to move the contents (5.54Gb) of the backup folder to my PC so I connected my Z1 (still running KitKat .108, it works flawlessly and I love Xposed) to the computer, accessed the folder on sd card (took a while to read) and selected all files and right clicked on the destination folder to paste. And nothing happened, just nothing. Selected the files again, same result, nothing happened. Went back and selected the folder, tried to paste that, nothing happens. Left it for a minute or two, to see if anything would happen. Nothing. So I disconnected from PC and and rebooted Z1.
And attempted to move the files again, only to find they were all gone. Now the folder was empty, but according to file managers the space is still being used. I have been through the entire sd card, hidden folders and all, can't find the files manually and the space has not been freed up. Tried to use GT Data Recovery app, it finds over 800 files in standard scan mode and over 3000 in full scan mode (there were 1042 files that were lost) but would not recover the files as it is coded to recover to internal memory only (even when recovering from sd card, WTF!) and there is not enough space. Second pass says no files to recover, first pass used 30% of battery.
I have left my Z1 in MTP mode for USB connections, as it has proved to be the least troublesome mode for data transfers (although my experience with every other Android phone has been the exact opposite).
I have no idea why this happened or how to recover the loss.

gandalf_grey91 said:
This is weird and probably not relevant to anyone, just thought I would put it out there.
I backup apps before I update from Play Store, so that I can roll back if there is any problem with a new version. Cleverly, I decided it was time to move the contents (5.54Gb) of the backup folder to my PC so I connected my Z1 (still running KitKat .108, it works flawlessly and I love Xposed) to the computer, accessed the folder on sd card (took a while to read) and selected all files and right clicked on the destination folder to paste. And nothing happened, just nothing. Selected the files again, same result, nothing happened. Went back and selected the folder, tried to paste that, nothing happens. Left it for a minute or two, to see if anything would happen. Nothing. So I disconnected from PC and and rebooted Z1.
And attempted to move the files again, only to find they were all gone. Now the folder was empty, but according to file managers the space is still being used. I have been through the entire sd card, hidden folders and all, can't find the files manually and the space has not been freed up. Tried to use GT Data Recovery app, it finds over 800 files in standard scan mode and over 3000 in full scan mode (there were 1042 files that were lost) but would not recover the files as it is coded to recover to internal memory only (even when recovering from sd card, WTF!) and there is not enough space. Second pass says no files to recover, first pass used 30% of battery.
I have left my Z1 in MTP mode for USB connections, as it has proved to be the least troublesome mode for data transfers (although my experience with every other Android phone has been the exact opposite).
I have no idea why this happened or how to recover the loss.
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I don't have much to say about recovering the files but I do have something to share.
First of all, were you trying to move (cut and paste) the files to PC?
Based on my own experience I can guarantee you that it will never work.
Every time I tried to move things from SD Card (connected to Z1) to PC nothing happens at all. Instead, if you want to move things from internal memory it works flawlessly. I don't know what's the problem but I do know that you can't move things from SD Card to PC connected to phone.
So you have 2 option to move your things (assuming that they didn't magically disappear).
First one is to copy and paste (instead of cut) and then delete them from the SD Card.
Second one is to remove your SD Card from your phone and connecting it directly to your PC (using adapter or something) and then move the files.
I'd suggest you to connect the SD Card directly to PC and open it and change windows settings to show hidden files and check if you can see them. If you can't, then all I can say is to go to some shop to check it for you.
Regards,
~J2C

Just2Cause said:
First of all, were you trying to move (cut and paste) the files to PC?
Based on my own experience I can guarantee you that it will never work.
Every time I tried to move things from SD Card (connected to Z1) to PC nothing happens at all. Instead, if you want to move things from internal memory it works flawlessly. I don't know what's the problem but I do know that you can't move things from SD Card to PC connected to phone.
So you have 2 option to move your things (assuming that they didn't magically disappear).
First one is to copy and paste (instead of cut) and then delete them from the SD Card.
Second one is to remove your SD Card from your phone and connecting it directly to your PC (using adapter or something) and then move the files.
I'd suggest you to connect the SD Card directly to PC and open it and change windows settings to show hidden files and check if you can see them. If you can't, then all I can say is to go to some shop to check it for you.
Regards,
~J2C
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Thanks for the reply. You are probably right, for some strange reason I tried to move the files at first, only after that did I try to copy but I fear it was too late. Will have a go at removing the card and seeing what I can do with a PC.
Thanks for the advice.