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Top 3 Tools to Fix SDHC Card Not Recognized Error

December 05, 2017 11:27 am / Posted by Bobby Hills to Card Tips
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“Both of my computers cannot detect SDHC card inserted in a USB slot through a card reader. The first one I had tried was an HP and I exchanged it for a Kingston, but neither works. Any clues? Thank you.”

Many computer users running Mac or Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP complained that their SDHC cards are not being recognized. While card is inserted in the proper slot, the computer just fails to detect it and SD Memory Card Drive no longer works in Windows or Mac platform. As a matter of fact, this is one of the common computer errors encountered. We explore several tools which may be of help to fix SDHC card not recognized error in computer.

Table of Contents:

Part 1. Fix SDHC Card Unrecognized via 3 Tools
Part 2. Recover Files When SDHC Card is Not Readable

Part 1. Fix SDHC Card Unrecognized via 3 Tools

If your SD card couldn’t be detected by a PC or Mac when it is connected, or in other case, it simply won’t read in your digital camera, then you may try to check out the following tools to find and gain fixes.

Tool 1. New Card Reader

For most of time, a card can’t be connected with another device, the greatest possibility is that card reader is damaged. This is the first estimate while SDHC card is wrong. For this reason, check out whether card reader is too old or even out of commission or not. You could judge it by changing another new card reader. If the card with new card reader is able to be recognized by computer or phone, then good luck to you, you have successfully solved your problem.

Tool 2. Disk Diagnostic Tool

If card reader could be used normally, then maybe card is in malfunction. At this time, you will need a disk diagnostic tool that is able to work on memory card to check if your files are lost or have become inaccessible. With that tool, you will reformat and remove all the things in that card. Consequently, ensure you have recovered or copy all the data to another drive before SD card format.

Tool 3. Windows Hardware Troubleshooter

If there is nothing wrong with the card and card reader, then you may conjecture that computer system is getting into trouble. The third available tool to fix SD card is running the hardware troubleshooter. For doing this, just type Troubleshooting in the search box and select Troubleshooting under Settings. Then type Hardware Troubleshooter in the search option again, tap on Hardware Troubleshooter to run it, you may also run USB Troubleshooter. If this tool detects any error, it will work it out automatically.

As long as you gain these top 3 tools, it is a big possibility that your SDHC card will be normal to connect to your machine.

Part 2. Recover Files When SDHC Card is Not Readable

Actually, you are able to fix a logical corrupted SDHC card by yourself. Once your SDHC card is unreadable because of logical corruption, you might as well try to recover files in that card with the professional and reliable card data recovery program. The Card Data Recovery software is designed to recover a large section of data such as photos, videos, music, etc. Moreover, it supports to restore more than 300 file formats.

Done! Hope all the information above is able to fix SDHC card not recognized error in your computer. If you get any other resolutions or other errors with SD card, welcome to share with us in the comment area.

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