Android SD card - corrupted

[buckyloon]

My Samsung Evo 16gb micro SD card was working well on my Moto G(3rd Gen), and it was formatted as internal storage. However, when installing app updates, the SD card became corrupted.

I've attempted to reformat the SD card as internal storage, but the phone now says it "doesn't support this Samsung SD card" and won't format it. Any suggestions?

 

[webworkings]

If the card was set as "Internal" storage on the other phone, it shouldn't work on the new phone unless you turned it back to "External" storage before changing it over. When the card is made "Internal" storage it is formatted and then encoded to that device. Making it not work with other devices/unable to read the data in that state.

It is set up that way so that you can't just pull someones SD card, pop it into a device and read all the data that is on it. If you want to save the data on it, you are going to need the original phone. Put the card back into it, connect the phone via USB to a computer and copy all your personal data over to a folder on the computer.

Move any apps over to the phone, if you don't want to lose them, off the card and then turn the card back to "External" storage.

Now you should be able to put the card in the new phone and use it. You can copy the data from the computer over to the new phone or the SD card in the new phone, via USB cord connection. The Apps, you can't move over.