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Nearly unused microSD card is broken; any chance of recovery?
Subject:Nearly unused microSD card is broken; any chance of recovery? From:Jim Jones <han4yu3 -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 11 Jul 2014 12:57:08 -0500
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> A new* 128 gb microSD card that I have nearly broke in half width-wise as
> I was trying to put it in the card-reader slot on my tablet.
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> I'd like to recover the data if possible - no personal/confidential client
> data was on the card - there was just some nice stuff.
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> One person, a CS professor whose specialty is not this kind of thing, told
> me that he doubts that there is any chance of me getting anything back,
> because his experience with these cards [he uses them with his cameras] has
> been that they are easily damaged.
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> *actually it is probably a year or two old but it has been sitting on a
> shelf unused, basically, in a friend's shop.
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> My friend who gave it to me told me that these small cards are frangible.
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> Jim Jones
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> Twitter @han4yu3
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> linkedin.com/in/jimxlat
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