Dead Micro SD Card

[andy_con]

so the story goes...

my sony xperia was filling up so I purchased a 32gb class 10 Lexar micro sd card from play.com and transferred all my photos from the phone to the memory card.

today just one month later the card is fucked, whatever I plug it into nothing happens its just dead.

on the card are lots of photos and videos of my daughter, when she first walked and stuff like that. im not rich, far from it, but I have to get these photos and videos back so im left with paying a company lots of money to recover them

so can anyone recommend any companies?

ive spotted these

http://recoverfab.com/price.php

http://www.hddrecovery.ca/

[Galvonaut]

so the story goes...

my sony xperia was filling up so I purchased a 32gb class 10 Lexar micro sd card from play.com and transferred all my photos from the phone to the memory card.

today just one month later the card is fucked, whatever I plug it into nothing happens its just dead.

on the card are lots of photos and videos of my daughter, when she first walked and stuff like that. im not rich, far from it, but I have to get these photos and videos back so im left with paying a company lots of money to recover them

so can anyone recommend any companies?

ive spotted these

http://recoverfab.com/price.php

http://www.hddrecovery.ca/

Hi Andy

If you know a serious photographer close to you, ask if they use Sandisk memory cards as the professional cards ship with a mini cd with some ace recovery software on them.

Unfortunately my disks is in Italy, so I can't send you one.

Found this link - I 'think' it's the same as is shipped with the cards >> http://sandisk-card-recovery-pro.en.softonic.com/
Keith

[andy_con]

Your missing what I wrote, the card is dead plug it into any device and nothing it's not picked up by anything. So even the best recovery software in the world is no good

[Galvonaut]

Ahh, my bad. That's not so good.

[Meatball]

Its a large chunk of NAND flash - so there two possibilities - files could likely still there. Just not so accessible. The memory controller IC could have have died. Who knows why. Static - other form of over voltage, shock, moisture.

The other possibility is the rather random effect of memory corruption. It happens even to solid state drives.

A professional data recovery service may certainly have the means to access the memory - but I can assure you - it will not be cheap!

I hope that somewhat steers your search in the right direction.

[The_Doctor]

so the story goes...

my sony xperia was filling up so I purchased a 32gb class 10 Lexar micro sd card from play.com and transferred all my photos from the phone to the memory card.

today just one month later the card is fucked, whatever I plug it into nothing happens its just dead.

on the card are lots of photos and videos of my daughter, when she first walked and stuff like that. im not rich, far from it, but I have to get these photos and videos back so im left with paying a company lots of money to recover them

so can anyone recommend any companies?

ive spotted these

http://recoverfab.com/price.php

http://www.hddrecovery.ca/

One thing you can try safely before finding a firm that can read the raw FLASH chip inside.. Cold. Do it slowly.... Use the most trusted USB adapter you have around. (The cheap ones are VERY cheap but variable, if mine are anything to go by, especially on capacity over 2GB). Wrap it gently but snugly in two or three scrunched-up carrier bags until you have a loose ball at least 5 inches across to get lots of insulation round it. Put in in a deep freeze, or at least the back of a fridge's icebox, with the cable coming out to a computer. Don't leave it powered, it won't ever get cold that way, but try it at intervals of an hour or so. If you get (extremely) lucky you might get a tiny contraction in a tiny cluster of conductive molecules or atoms somewhere, enough to get you some salvage time.

For future consideration: Avoid SD for critical work. CF cards have 'wear levelling technology' that dramatically reduces the chance of early failure caused by too-frequent overwrite of one small bit of memory. They are also parallel devices with simpler controllers, and more space, so they have more helpful controllers. SD cards have a bare minimum in a tiny space, and they need all of that just to handle what is effectively a serial connection.

One other thing: Sandisk is very prone to piracy! Be very careful where you buy them. I stayed with Transcend for a long time because they were far more likely to be real (and excellent) in both SD and CF format. Their reputation might have made them a target for counterfeits too, especially in high capacities, so take care.