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The #microSD card in my phone has gotten corrupted.

My (dusty) Windows7 laptop says the disk format is exFat and that the disk is now good.
Pretty sure the Android phone wants Fat32, so how did it ever work in the phone?
Used #FreeFileSync to backup the card's files to a laptop. But some files not transferable.
Used #chkdsk but AOK there.

Hours taken by this #TrashyTech so far?
Three? Five? Getting other things done but ....

So now trying #DiskDrill.

#ConsumingIn2024

Data Recovery
For anyone who has ever found themselves in the unpleasant situation of having to carry out data recovery, here are a few tested file recovery software:

100 % Successful:
- EaseUS Data Recovery (easy but 70 $)
- DMDE - Datenwiederherstellung (pretty complicated, but free or very cheap)

Not successful:
- Recuva (<1% Found)
- Disk-Drill
- Ontrack EasyRecovery
- Wise Data Revovery
- Aiseesoft Data Recovery
- UFS Explorer Professional Recovery (1% Found)
- MiniTool Power Data Recovery (<1% Found)
- Auslogics File Recovery
- 7-Data Recovery Suite

Situation: Syncthing deleted all files on every device
I have a file sync software called Syncthing on my PC and also on my android device. On Android the sync folder is on a SD card which is encrypted in case I lose my phone.
After updating and restarting the smartphone the SD card takes some time to get decrypted again. However, the Syncthing app was faster in starting up than the phone decrypting the SD card. Syncthing seemed to think that having no files is the recent update and also deleted the files on my PC. I had file versioning on my smartphone but I couldn’t recover my files, probably due to an obviously missing storage device.
After finish decrypting the SD card it just showed four empty “.stfolder” on the smartphone and also on the PC and my files were gone.

#DataRecovery #Datenwiederherstellung #EaseUS #DMDE #Recuva #DiskDrill #Syncthing #encryption