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It's my android phone SD card which was indicated damaged by android yesterday night, out of the blue! I put it directly to a USB port with a USB SD card holder case, so in that way I can recover it with TestDisk, which I had experienced before on a similar situation.



I also noticed that there is a change in file system and capacity:



File System : RAW
Capacity : 0 (unknown capacity)


Also TestDisk doesn't show it on its partitions list. A 2 GB SD card is not that important in price but I've a lot of files and medias which I need them.



Used a mini card reader, TestDisk displayed it on its list but a quick search and or a deep search doesn't have any results No partition found or selected for recovery
and then I should quit the program.



Your help is appreciated.



Update #2



lsusb output:



Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 04f3:0234 Elan Microelectronics Corp.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. Multi Flash Reader
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

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So as discussed in the comments of the question itself newer android devices use the Media Tranfer Protocol or MTP for short. Using testdisk to restore a MTP sdcard will not work since testdisk (as far as I know) does not support MTP.

Instead you should use a tool that can restore MTP sdcards.



CWM (ClockWorkMod) Recovery is such a tool. Doing a formatting using this tool is a method to fix your sdcard.



You'll need to do is install it onto your phone. Next up is booting into CWM recovery and selecting "mounts and storage" -> "format sdcard".

Let it run and you're done.



CWM recovery screen 1

CWM recovery screen 2


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