The Best SD Card Checker for Windows 10 and 11

Use case: Need a SD card checker

SD and microSD cards are small but can offer large storage capacities, this making them ideal for many small and portable devices.

After a long time using, many users want to check their SD card health status on Windows, Mac, or Android. However, unlike a hard disk, the SD card don't have SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology), so they don't offer an official built-in health testing utility. To test the SD card, you can try third-party tools:

● H2testw: Windows
● A1 SD Bench: Android
● Blackmagic Disk Speed Test: macOS

However, these tools only are excel in testing the SD card speed, and they cannot tell you if there are bad sectors, file system errors, or risks of corruption. If you want to get these detailed information, it is recommended to use a professional tool like AOMEI Partition Assistant.

Run AOMEI Partition Assistant to check SD card health

To repair a corrupted memory card, you may find a lot of software listed on Google, all advertised as capable of repairing damaged flash drives, Micro SD cards, memory cards, HDDs, and SSDs. However, in our experience, only a few of them work as well as they claim. Here, we strongly recommend to try AOMEI Partition Assistant, as it offers many solutions for different corruption situations and can help you with future needs related to using an SD card.

AOMEI Partition Assistant

The Best Windows Disk Partition Manager and PC Optimizer

Free Download
Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7

This powerful SD card repair software supports all editions of Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, and 11, and it has no brand limitations. It can repair damaged SD cards from Samsung, SanDisk, Kingston, Panasonic, and others. More importantly, it is helps you to check bad sectors and remove write-protected with easy steps.

1. Check the SD card/partition error

This function can scan the bad sectors on your hard drive. This is a helpful feature to check SD card health on Windows 11,10, 8, 7. You can follow the guide by running the Micro SD card tester for checking.

1. Download the freeware. Install and launch it. Click “Test” in the top toolbar, and choose “Disk Surface Test”.

2. Tick Quick Check and click Start to check whether there are any bad sectors on the disk.

This is how to check disk error. If you want to check SD card partition error, you can right click a partition on the card->Advanced->Check Partition-> Choose a way to perform partition checking and click OK.

2. Format the corrupted SD card to repair it (write protection removal)

If the SD card has no bad sectors, you can try formatting it with the SD card checker to make it reusable. This is also useful for situation where your SD card is in RAW file system or write-protected status.

1. Run AOMEI Partition Assistant. Right click the damaged SD card partition and select Format Partition.

2. Choose a desired file system (ex: FAT32) from File System menu and click OK.

3. Back to the main interface. Click Apply to execute the pending operation.

The formatting process will clear write protection from damaged SD card easily without requiring you to run complex commands.

Method 3. Rebuild corrupted MBR

The file system errors, physical damage, malware, or improper removal of the SD card will lead to corrupted MBR, that lead SD card corruption. Under this situation, you can Run AOMEI Partition Assistant to fix MBR on Windows.

1. With this reliable SD card checker, you can also recover missing partitions, allocate free space from one partition to another, optimize SSD drives without damaging their lifespan, and migrate OS to an SSD.

2. Its Server Edition is specially designed for Windows Server users.

Tips: Use the AOMEI software for further needs

Tip 1. Clone your SD card

If you find your SD card in bad condition and want to change to a new one, you can move everything with cloning by AOMEI Partition Assistant. It allows you free from reinstalling or downloading anything. It offers you 2 methods for transferring your data:

✦ Clone Disk Quickly: only copy the used space of the disk to another one, and you can adjust partition size during the cloning process. In this way, you can clone an SD card to a smaller SD card.

✦ Sector-by-sector Clone: clone every sector of the disk to the destination disk no matter whether the sector is used or not. This method requires the destination SD card is larger than, at least equal to, the source SD card. So you can clone an SD card to a larger SD card.

1. Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant, click "Clone" in the main interface and select "Clone Disk".

2. Choose the SD card that you need to clone as the source disk and click "Next".

3. Select the destination drive to store the data on the source drive, and then click "Next".

4. Then, you can check the source and destination drive in the next window or change to “Sector to Sector clone”, and click the "Confirm" button to continue if there is no problem.

5. At last, click "Apply" and "Proceed" in the main interface to start cloning the hard drive.

When done, the SD card has been cloned to another data storage device. Besides, AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard is also able to wipe SD card completely to prevent private files from leakage.

Tip 2. Recover lost data caused by failing SD card

If you lose data because your SD card is damaged, AOMEI Partition Assistant can help you get it back quickly and easily. It can get back more than 200 different types of data, like photos, videos that you accidentally deleted, documents, emails, and more. You can get your data back even if you format, corrupt, get a virus, or have your system crash. This powerful data recovery software can help.

1. In the main interface, click Recover > Recover Data from the top pane.

2. Select the drive where the deleted data is stored and click Start Scan.

3. When the scan finishes, all deleted files will be listed. Then, choose the target file you want to recover and click Recover.

4. Here, select a path to save the recovered file.

5. When the recovery is over, click OK to exit it.

Conclusion

AOMEI Partition Assistant can be the best SD card checker. You can use it to check disk and partition errors, format to repair the corrupted SSD, and recover lost data. It is also a powerful Windows management expert. To extend drive space, it allows you to allocate free space, remove junk files, move installed apps to another drive. If you encounter system crashes, it helps you to create a bootable USB and access the system to have a repair.