SD card not working in Windows 10

UPDATED: March 28, 2023 by Technoyl Team

A SD card is compact solution to carry your documents and works as a good plug and play device. If it is not showing up on your Windows or is corrupted, let us see how you can fix it.

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SD card not working in Windows 10

You can try these suggestions if your SD card doesn’t works with Windows.

1. First of all, test your SD Card on different system or simply try it with a new card reader.

2. Try to change the drive letter of unrecognized SD Card:

  • Press Windows + X, and click on Disk Management.
  • If you see your SD card is listed in Disk Management but it has no drive letter it won’t show in File Explorer. To assign as drive letter to SD card, right click it.
  • Select Change Drive Letter and Paths.
  • Click Add > Assign the following drive Letter.
  • Now click in the Drive Letter List Box.
  • Choose an appropriate Drive Letter.
  • Click OK, OK.

3. Run CHKDSK command-line tool to make the SD Card detectable:

  • Open administrative Command Prompt
  • Type chkdsk X: / f and press Enter key. Make sure you replace X: with SD card drive letter.
  • Let the command execution complete.

4. Update the SD Card Driver:

  • Open Device Manager.
  • Under Disk drives, locate your SD card and right click.
  • Select Update driver option.
  • Proceed with on-screen instructions.

5. Force SD Card to Show Up: A virus/malware attack may hide or encrypt your SD card, try these steps to unhide it:

  • Open administrative Command Prompt.
  • Type attrib -h -r -s /s /d X:\*.* and press Enter key. Make sure you replace X: with SD card drive letter.
  • Let the command execution complete.

6. If you still face the issue, and data on card is extremely important for you, you need to contact professional data recovery tools or services.

We hope after trying above suggestions, your issue of SD card not working should be resolved.

That’s it!

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