My 64 GB Samsung SD card is almost full and I want to transfer files to my MacBook Pro. I have done the same task before. Both give me the same error: Samsung SD card is unreadable by the computer. I’ve run First Aid in Disk Utility. It says no error found. Now, I even can’t open the card. The only thing I can do is erase the card, but how about my data on it?
How do you connect your SD card with your MBP? Try to reconnect it to your Mac, check the SD card reader or slot, and clean the dust on the card.
No need to check the connection as Disk Utility shows your SD card already. The only issue is that your SD card may have file system errors, causing your Mac to fail to recognize it properly.
When an SD card is not readable on your Mac, as you have guessed, you should erase the SD card. Erasing the card will wipe all content, making your data lose.
So, in this situation, you have to use a third-party data recovery tool to help you. iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac can do it. This software can recover data from unreadable or corrupted SD cards, USB drives, external hard drives, and other storage devices.
I have ever used it to rescue my documents from my corrupted micro SD card. Here’s how to use it:
- Download iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac on your Mac and install it.
- Open the software, select your unreadable SD card, and click Search for Lost Data.
- Wait for it to search the files on the card.
- Check the scanning results, preview the files, and click Recover to save them to a different destination.