How to recover data from a damaged SD card? I have an HTC Inspire.  I have had my 8 GB SD Card for three years...needless to say, it has like 5000 pictures and hundreds of videos on it.  It has a lot of music on it too, but I'm not worried about that.  I just want my pictures back more than anything.  I got a message on my phone that told me I should safely unmount my SD card before removing it.  Since I haven't taken it out for months, I didn't think anything of it.  A few hours later, it said "SD Card damaged.  You may have to reformat it."  When I clicked on that, it said "Are you sure you want to format the Sd card?  All data on your card will be lost."  

I have tried plugging it into the computer, but there's not an option to view files.  I tried putting it in my dad's phone, and his phone didn't even recognize that it was even in there.  If anyone has ANY ideas, whatsoever, it would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you!!
I encountered the same problem with my SD card and Samsung Galaxy S a while ago. The solution was to plug the card into a card reader and run chkdsk x: /F /V to repair the file system. 

If this doesn't work, you'd have to use some file recovery software to fish out the files from a broken file system. There are many different applications for this, you can find some by googling for "file recovery free", or try PhotoRec.