SD card failure (can it still be repaired?)


b_o_b

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One of my 32 GB micro sdhc cards is not working anymore after I needed to use some force to get it out of my laptop (was transferring files for my Pandora). 

I just tried to reformat the card with GParted, but it isn't even possible to create a new partition table. 

error message : /dev/sdd: unrecognised disk label

 

Then I tried to low level format the card with dd:



sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd


dd: writing to `/dev/sdd': No space left on device

62689+0 records in

62688+0 records out

32096256 bytes (32 MB) copied, 11.9491 s, 2.7 MB/s

 

Didn't seem to help. The card still appears to be 32 MB and fails to be recognized. I guess it is a hardware issue and broken beyond repair, but maybe someone has another idea. 
 
Thanks. I am using Linux so I will look into Testdisk. 
 
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