Jul 27, 2015 - Learn how to solve files, pictures not showing in SD Card. It would be a shame if your SD card stops working and your PC/device is unable to.

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Hi,

1) Do you get any error message?

2) Are you connecting your device for the first time on a Windows 7 computer? I would like to know if it has ever worked.

Follow the steps below and check if it helps

Method 1:I suggest that you check if you have the same issue in ‘Safe mode’ this, issue can be caused by Third Party.

a. Restart your computer if it is powered on.

b. Tap the F8 key after your computer initially powers on.

c. Once you see the Advanced Boot Options menu you can stop tapping.

d. Use the up/down arrow keys to highlight your selection.

e. Select Safe Mode and press Enter.

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f. Logon to your computer using an account with Administrator privileges.

If you don’t have the issue in ‘Safe Mode’, set your computer to clean boot:

a. Click Start, type msconfig in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.

b. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Continue.

c. On the General tab, click Selective Startup.

d. Under Selective Startup, click to clear the Load Startup Items check box.

e. Click the Services tab, click to select the Hide All Microsoft Services check box, and then click Disable All.

f. Click OK.

g. When you are prompted, click Restart.

For guidance: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

See the section on how return your computer to a Normal startup mode by following the steps under “Reset the computer to start as usual” in the above article.

Method 2:I suggest you to uninstall and reinstall the drivers for the SD card again and check if it works.

Check if there is any exclamation mark beside SD card in device manager.

Tips for solving problems with USB devices:

This link is for Windows Vista but it applies for Windows 7 as well.

Summary :

Gallery is a useful app for reviewing pictures you have taken and stored on your device & SD card. However, sometimes the pictures stored on your SD card might not show up in the gallery. Read this post now to learn solutions to fix this Gallery not showing SD card pictures issue effectively.

Part 1: Gallery Not Showing SD Card Pictures!

The Gallery is generally where an Android user would find the pictures they have previously taken. It is common for a lot of Android users to store data on an external SD card in addition to their phone storage. However, sometimes pictures on SD card not showing in Gallery.

Now, let’s see a true case as follows:

I’m using MIUI global developer ROM 6.4.14 (Lollipop) from last two days. I’m constantly having an issue with it. The gallery app doesn’t show the photos that are stored in external SD card > DCIM > Camera folder. Tried to move that camera folder to pc, then clicked some photos (saved to ext. SD card) and then moved those photos from pc to mobile. After that, gallery app showed all those photos for a while but after a reboot, it again stopped showing all those photos from ext SD card camera folder.Source: miui.com

For a more intuitive understanding of this issue, the user also shows a picture as following.

Facing this situation, you will start to wonder: where are my pictures? Are they lost? If yes, how do I show SD card pictures in Gallery? Then, you might turn to the Internet for answers.

You can see that this is a common issue for many Android users. Due to the popularity of this event, we decided to introduce some available solutions as well as some free data recovery software in this post. Hope you will find them useful.

Part 2: How to Fix Gallery Not Showing SD Card Pictures Issue

We sum up four available solutions to make SD card pictures show up in Gallery as follows. You can try them one by one.

Solution 1: Reboot Your Android Device

When the images not showing in Gallery Android issue occurs, you can firstly try to restart your Android device. After that, check whether the disappeared images on your Android SD card appear in the Gallery APP. If the answer is no, try the next solution.

Solution 2: Reinsert the Android SD Card

Here is a safe way to remove the SD card from your Android device:

1. Go to Storage > Unmount SD Card to unmount the Android SD card and then turn off your Android device.

2. Remove the SD card from your Android phone. After a few minutes, reinsert the SD card into your Android device.

3. Remount the memory card so that it can be read. Now, you can check whether images on the SD card can be viewed in Gallery APP.

If this solution doesn’t work, please try solution 3.

Solution 3: Delete Nomedia Files on the SD Card

As to this solution, you should make sure that there is no .nomedia file on your SD card. If the media scanner detects this .nomedia file, all data in that folder will not be displayed in the Android Gallery App.

So, you should check whether there are .nomedia files and delete them if there are.

Solution 4: Format Your Android SD Card

You should use this solution when all of the solutions above couldn't help.

This solution can be divided into two cases:

Case 1: Data on SD card can be shown on your computer

Formatting the SD card will delete all files on it, so you should first back up your SD card to your computer.

Step 1: Back up the Data on the Android SD Card to Your Computer

One method to back up the data on the SD card is to use Copy + Paste commands. However, to copy many large files on the SD card with ease, you should use the Copy Partition function of MiniTool Partition Wizard.

But, if there are many large files on the Android SD card, you can use the Copy Partition function of MiniTool Partition Wizard to do this job with ease.

This function is available in the Free Edition of this program, so download and install it to your computer to have a try.

But, in some cases, the photos on your Android SD card can’t be read by the computer. In this situation, you can refer to this post to make photos on SD card to be displayed on your computer: How Do I Solve - Photos on SD Card Not Showing on Computer.

Step 2: Format the Android SD Card to Revert it back to Normal State

Of course, you can format the target Android SD card in Windows Explorer or Disk Management. At the same time, you can also use the third-party partition manager - MiniTool Partition Wizard for easier formatting with the Format Partition feature.

Step 3: Move the Copied Data to the Android SD Card

Here, you can still use MiniTool Partition Wizard and its Copy Partition function.

After these three simple steps, please reinsert the SD card to your Android device and check whether the photos on SD card can be shown in Gallery App. In general, if there is nothing wrong with the SD card, it will work normally.

Case 2: Data on SD card can’t be shown on your computer

What if the photos on your Android SD card can’t be read by the computer? In this situation, you can refer to this post to display photos on SD card on your computer: How Do I Solve - Photos on SD Card Not Showing on Computer.

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If unfortunately, the photos on the SD card can’t be shown on your computer, you can format it directly and then use a piece of professional data recovery software to recover photos from SD card.

This issue is common among Android users. Thus, in the next part, we will mainly introduce the possible ways to retrieve your photos from the formatted Android SD card.

Part 3: How to Recover Photos from Formatted SD Card?

Although it's true that after you format the Android SD card, all of its original data will be deleted from the storage device, you can still use a dedicated data recovery software to recover the original data before they are overwritten by new ones.

So, it is very important to stop using the Android SD card after formatting to prevent the formatted files from being overwritten.

MiniTool offers you three data recovery tools for retrieving photos from a formatted Android SD card:

1) Using MiniTool Photo Recovery

If you just want to restore photos from the formatted SD card, you can use MiniTool Photo Recovery which is specially used to recover the lost and deleted photos, audios & videos from devices such as digital cameras, computer hard drives, SD cards, and more.

You can try the Free Edition of this software to check whether it can detect the photos you want to recover.

Here are the steps to recover photos:

Step 1: After you launch the software, click Start.

Step 2: You will see a drive list. Here, you can choose the SD card you want to scan. Additionally, you can click Setting to select the data types you want to recover. After that, press the Scan button.

Step 3: Wait for the scanning process to complete. When it is finished, you will see the following scan result interface in which you can double click on a scanned photo to preview it.

After that, you can choose the photos you want to recover and press Save to select a location on your computer to store these photos.

The Free Edition of this software can only be used to recover 200 MB files in total. To recover your formatted photos without limitations, please get a more advanced edition from the MiniTool official site.

Read this post to learn more about MiniTool Photo Recovery: How Do I Recover Photo from Formatted SD Card for Free.

2) Using MiniTool Power Data Recovery

If you want to file types other than photos from the formatted SD card, you should try MiniTool Power Data Recovery.

This program has four specially designed and powerful modules to retrieve your lost and deleted data from different kinds of storage devices, such as computer hard drives, USB flash drives, SD cards, CD/DVD drives, and more.

The four recovery modules are: This PC, Removable Disk Drive, Hard Disk Drive and CD/DVD Drive.

Among these four recovery modules, Removable Disk Drive module is specially designed to recover data from removable drives, including SD cards.

You can use the Trial Edition of this software to check whether it can detect the files you want to recover before deciding to purchase the full edition.

After installing this software on your computer, you can follow these steps to recover your lost Gallery pictures.

Step 1: Choose the SD Card to Scan

Insert the SD card into an SD card reader and connect it to your computer. Then, open MiniTool Power Data Recovery to enter its This PC interface.

After that, click on Removable Disk Drive. This software will show you the SD card it can detect on the interface.

If the target SD card is not shown here on this interface, click on the refresh button so it could be recognized by the software.

If you only want to recover certain types of files from your SD card, you can use Settings to filter the ones you want.

Click Settings on the interface. The Scan Settings window will pop out, then you can check the file types you want to recover and click OK.

Now click Scan to start the scanning process.

Step 2: Find the Files You Want to Restore

When the scanning process is finished, the scanning result will be shown on the interface. By default, these scanned files are listed by path. You can open each path to view the files and check the items you want to recover.

Tips: Some Useful Functions to Find the Files You Want to Recover Quickly

1. Type

This function can show you the files in type for you to find the target files with ease.

2. Show Lost Files

If you only want to recover your lost files, you can use this function to show only the scanned lost files.

3. Find

After clicking on the Find option, you can input the file name into the pop-out bar and click on the Find button to locate the file directly.

4. Filter

Press Filter, and then choose and input the option from the pop-out window to filter the scanned files according to your needs.

6. Preview

Now, this software supports previewing 70 types of files. You can use this feature to check whether it is the file you need.

Step 3: Save the Needed Files

Since this is the trial edition of this software, you are not allowed to save the files you want to recover. However, you can update to an advanced edition to recover your files without limitation.

3) Using MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android

In addition to the above two programs, there is another choice for you to recover data from the formatted Android SD card - MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android.

There are two recovery modules: Recover from Phone and Recover from SD-Card.

The first recovery module is used to retrieve data from the Android phone and tablet directly, and the second recovery module is designed to recover data from Android SD card.

So, we will be using the Recover from SD-Card module.

You can use its Free Edition to recover 10 files of one type each time. You can try out the Free Edition before purchasing it.

Learn more about retrieving formatted files using MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android here: How Do You Recover Files from Formatted SD Card Android?

Part 4: Bottom Line

In this post, we introduced four available solutions for fixing the issue of Gallery not displaying SD card pictures.

Although formatting the SD card is a viable solution, this method will cause data loss and you will be facing a data recovery problem. Therefore, we recommend the MiniTool software. Three data recovery tools are introduced in this post and you can choose a proper one accordingly.

Perhaps you may encounter some problems when you are using the MiniTool software, so feel free to contact us by sending an email to [email protected] or leave a message in the following comment area. We will reply you as soon as possible.