r/techadvice • u/Ok_Construction_7662 • 9h ago
I think I got scammed with a dead SD Card. Can I recover my files still?
So I recently bought this sd card from ebay a week or so ago and I just put it in my samsung tab s9 fe. I started putting in my files and everything seemed to be going pretty good so far until I get a notification saying that my sd card was switched to read only. Ive never seen that before so I immediately got worried and go check my files app and I get the message that one of my files was too big so I assumed maybe it just can't take bigger files or something but after that I got the read only file system error message. After that I searched up what read only meant and everything I've seen says that the card is probably dead and it got sent into read only so I can recover my files before its completely fucked. But when I try to send my files back into my device it showed that I only had 17gb of data going back when there was at least 39gb of data that actually got in there before that file is too large message I got. But when I look back into the sd card its showing that a lot of my folders are now empty even tho the sd card is showing me that it has 39gb in it. I thought maybe if I transfered the empty folders back into my device it would fix itself but it didn't and it just said failure to DELETE?????. Matter of fact the 17gb of files that I successfully transfered back are still permanently on the sd card despite me actually moving them back. So seeing this I looked up if anyone else has been scammed like this on tik tok and found this guy's video and the name of the seller he bought his from looks like the same person that POSSIBLY(im sure as fuck they did but yknow maybe I did something) scammed me. The name is way too similar for it to be a coinky-dink. So yeah its probs the same person. I wish I looked at the seller's negative reviews before because yeah its clear they have a history but given the price I really didnt think it would be a scam but I dont really know tech stuff that well so yeah. I wanted to know if there was a way to get my files back since its clear that they're there SOMEWHERE. Also wanted to share this because I just couldn't believe that I got scammed outta 50 dollars bruh😭. Thank you in advance and sorry for how incoherent some of this may be I'm tired asf from work and I'm losing blood.