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Corrupted SD recovery help

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hemlockjibber8
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Looking for help recovering photos.

My SD card in my Samsung s4 decided to shit the bed and my phone now tells me it is corrupted and can't access anything.

I saw online that there is some sort of chkdsk thing you can do on windows. I have a macbook though. I ran it through disk utility repair and it says it Can't unmount disk.

I know nothing about this except I can't access all my photos. Is there any decent software out there that is free? What's the recommended way forward?

Thanks. xoxo
Nov 30 2016 11:17AM
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.otto.
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Dec 7 2016 10:17AM
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creaturelo
Posts: 622 - Karma: 11,959
I've had a handful of cards that were corrupted courtesy of a bad batch in the local shop. I use recovery pro through sandisk, not sure if it'll work for what you're looking for, but I highly recommend it for sure.
Jan 4 2017 8:09PM
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ChoomaChad
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I filmed some sidecountry with my GoPro the other week and one of my longest videos got corrupted. I fixed it after using instructions/ a program off of this reddit thread. I know that that's not necessarily what you're after, but it might work to bring back some files if you can recover/ get to them. Good luck!
Jan 4 2017 8:59PM
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