Galaxy S7 changed to decrypted SD card setting by itself, now I can't read encrypted files on card?!

[Android Central Question]

My phone was out of power and was shutting down. It shut down and when I turned the phone back on again I noticed that something was wrong. Some files were not readable. I noticed that it was the SD cards storage that didn't work, so I checked the "Encrypt SD card" option in settings and found that the SD card is "not encrypted", which it is, it is encrypted but my phone won't recognize it.

I haven't done a factory reset or rooted it, haven't done anything that changes my phone, but the files for the time being are unreadable. I haven't updated my phone in a good while. I have managed to backup SD card, as I can see the files on my computer and on the phone itself, but the files can't be read. I have tried to restart the phone without the SD card then putting it back in again but have been unable to regain access. Any ideas on how to fix this? Or is it impossible to fix?

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Unfortunately, it might mean that the card became corrupted, which is why the phone thinks it's not encrypted. If the phone suddenly shut down in the middle of a read/write operation, that could have potentially caused it to corrupt. I'm not sure if there's much you can do about it. I suppose you could try using chkdsk to look for bad sectors, but fixing a bad sector might also cause data loss: http://forums.androidcentral.com/am...guide-using-chkdsk-fix-corrupted-sd-card.html

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[mustang7757]

Sounds like a corrupt SD card