I had my Tracker Mini in USB mode pugged into my Mac and I transferred some files. When it was done I ejected the disk but got a spinning wheel cursor for like 5 minutes so I force quit Finder and then force shut down the computer. I unplugged the Mini and exited USB mode and it seemed fine, but then acted glitchy. I hit Play on a song to start it and Play again to stop but the screen froze and the music it didn’t stop. A few seconds later the screen unfroze and the music stopped. I shut down the Mini and saw the normal shutdown progress bar. I went to turn it on again but it didn’t turn on. I popped out the microSD card and put it in a reader so I could back it up but my Mac doesn’t recognize it. It’s not that the drive appears corrupted or unreadable - the drive just doesn’t show up at all. Disk Utility doesn’t see anything connected. I found some reddit threads recommending various disk recovery programs but I don’t know how to use them if my computer doesn’t even recognize that there’s a disk present.
Thankfully I back up the card every week or two, but there are a few things I did since the last backup that I’d be bummed to lose. Does anyone have advice on how to troubleshoot this before I get quotes from a professional data recovery service?
Can someone tell me what the Mini does if you turn it on without the microSD card inserted? Does it turn on and give a message about the card being missing or does it not turn on. Mine doesn’t turn on and I’m worried I have a bigger problem than just the card.
It should display insert sd card.
Have you tried out another sd card? If you have any spare left, format it to fat32 mbr (up to 32gb is fat32 anyway) and report back