SD card is no longer recognized. What to do?

The following problem has just arisen: a friend called me crying because her SD card could not be properly ejected from her dog-like laptop. The result of the whole thing was that the SD is no longer recognized by any device. However, there are memories of the past 6 years on this thing. Is there a way to get the pictures or to partially restore them?

Something on it seems to have been damaged. A file or something. Perhaps the card was removed during an operation and then that happened.

The only way to get the data, I think, is to find someone who can save the data. In any case, I have no other solution at the moment.

Okay, then I'll throw in this suggestion, thank you very much.

You are welcome

Try to reformat it, first make a new partition (e.g. With gparted) Then data recovery with photorec that belongs to the testdisk package. Repairing is also possible with testdisk, but you need deeper knowledge.

https://gparted.org/

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

Note… I've only tested this on Linux so far. But extra SD cards damaged to test it.

Why should you format and create partitions first? You can start a test disc right away. Format etc. Writes data to the data carrier unnecessarily.

Because otherwise more in-depth knowledge is required, which a layperson usually does not have and the other is also possible.