How to Recover Photos from an SD Card That Says Removed Unexpectedly Error?

Summary: SD Card removed unexpectedly' these errors can make the photos and other files stored inaccessible. Here's how you can use different manual methods to fix your SD Card error.

The SD card that you have inserted into your smartphone to enhance storage may sometimes become a problem. It may show an error message, SD card unexpectedly removed or SD card removed, insert a new one’ every time you access your Android phone.

This is more irksome because you are unable to access the photos and other media files stored on your phone’s SD card.

These methods are applicable to all types and brands of SD cards and Android phones, which use microSD cards or SD cards as a secondary storage option.

Precaution before you read further:

How to fix the ‘SD Card Unexpectedly Removed’ error on your Android phone

Method 1: Re-insert SD Card

Reinserting the phone’s SD card may fix the error. Turn off your phone before you remove the SD card from it. Now again turn it on and reinsert the SD card.

The error ‘SD card is removed unexpectedly’ should not appear now.

Method 2: Unmount the SD card

Unmounting the SD card and then rebooting your phone can fix this issue in almost all cases.

Steps to fix ‘SD card unexpectedly remove error’ using unmount SD card:

  1. Go to Settings > storage > click Unmount SD card.
  2. Next, remove the SD card from your phone.
  3. Reboot the phone.
  4. Reinsert the card.
  5. Go to Settings > storage and select mount SD card.

The SD card error should be fixed now.

Method 3: Format the SD card

If the above methods don’t help, your card may have bad or corrupt sectors that are causing the error. Try formatting the SD card on your phone or PC. Although formatting will wipe all the files from your SD card, it is recommended for the health of the corrupt SD card.

Even a healthy SD card should be regularly formatted and then used. However, always back up the stored files before formatting.

Prefer to format your SD card on your Android phone. If that doesn’t help, you may opt for a Windows format utility.

Steps to format SD card on Android phone:

Steps to format SD card on PC

The format window asks to select the file system. Choose NTFS or FAT32 smaller SD cards while exFAT for 64 GB and above cards

If the Windows format utility fails, try formatting the SD card by using:

Recommended: First, recover lost photos from the SD card with the help of Stellar Photo Recovery software and then format it to use as fresh. The SD card recovery software can bypass the ‘SD card was unexpectedly removed’ error message and restore lost photos and other media files.

 

In case, you have formatted the card before recovering the photos, you can always restore by using Stellar Photo Recovery, which can restore lost photos from the formatted SD card as well.

Step-by-step: How to recover photos from an SD card that gives an ‘unexpectedly removed error’ message

Method 4: Restore Factory Settings:

A factory reset erases all the information and data stored on your smartphone. It restores the device to the original manufacturer’s settings. If none of the above-mentioned methods fixes the SD card error, you may try a factory reset as a last resort.

Note: Back up your data including contacts, SMS, and other useful information before resetting your device.

 Steps to Factory reset your smartphone

How to recover photos from SD cards that give an ‘unexpectedly removed error’ message 

Even if the phone keeps saying the SD card is removed, you can restore the lost photos from it. Stellar Photo Recovery is advanced software that recovers data from corrupt and inaccessible memory cards of all types.

Step-by-step: How to recover photos from an SD card that gives an ‘unexpectedly removed error’ message

*The trial software scans the media and shows a preview of all the recoverable files. Once you are able to ascertain the effectiveness, you can save the recoverable files by activating the software.

 

Tips to prevent SD cards from getting corrupt and avoiding errors:

Final Thoughts

Android SD cards are a convenient way to increase mobile storage capacity. But errors such as ‘SD card was unexpectedly removed’ make the photos and other files stored on it inaccessible.

You can fix the error by the above-given methods while the inaccessible photos can always be recovered with the help of Stellar Photo Recovery in no time. The software works on microSD cards, or SD cards used in Samsung, Vivo, LG, Motorola, Huawei, and other brands of Android phones. It is easy to use and quick to restore all the photos bypassing the SD card error.

 

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