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This is a year old Tab A 10.1 . I inserted 32 GB card about 6 months ago and it worked flawlessly until today when, looking for a book stored on it in ‘my files’, it was no longer being recognized by the system. I had just been fooling with Word, which I’m not familiar with, trying to find and open various files in it and just playing around with it in general, my usual familiarization method. After closing it, I went to find the book and nothing. Thinking it probably had something to do with the Word experience, I thought it was probably an easy fix - take the card out and reinsert it. (I should have rebooted first, I know)! Taking it out then led to the very real problem of the card no longer locking in place. I’ve tried inserting it with every conceivable manner of angle, pressure, and wiggle, short of using a hammer. (Obviously there are limits to what can be done, and I made sure to try not to make things worse). I tried inserting a different card, in case the original had self destructed somehow. It seems like the spring mechanism that does the locking isn’t engaging. Just a guess. Maybe I didn’t remove the card correctly? I really hope that two uses of the card dock in these things isn’t the normal life expectency! And I’m also hoping that if this problem can be resolved, the issue that led me to pull the card in the first place will have disappeared as quickly as it appeared! Any thoughts?
Did you forget to go into device settings and under Memory, YOU MUST FIRST UNMOUNT YOUR SD CARD before ejecting it from the device? The main reasons for this are: Any data being written to the card can get lost.Background activities like looking for an older file you know is on the card will work with the card and the device unbeknownst to you. By not unmounting first, you risk not only losing that file BUT ALSO DATA CORRUPTION OF THE ENTIRE CARD due to the unexpected disruption of removing a card while it is in use. You might be able to take your card (if it wasn’t encrypted) and try to mount it onto another machine - PC laptop, card reader - not a phone - and see if you can access any of the data. If you can recover the data, immediately copy all of it to another device - like a USB stick or flash drive. Reformat the card using the tab a device so you have remounted and then when it is now recognized by the Tab A as a new card - give the card NO Name and then copy the files you saved from the disk before you reformatted it on the tab A and the files should now be back on the card in the device like you wanted them to be. If you cannot read the data off of the card then consider it lost unless you made a Samsung backup to the whole device before your problem started (good advice going forward). Hope this helped
