Re: Nearly unused microSD card is broken; any chance of recovery?

[John Allred <john2 -at- allrednet -dot- com>]

As long as the contacts and internal circuitry are usable, a local PC repair store should be able to retrieve your data for little cost.

John

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On Jul 11, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Jim Jones <han4yu3 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> I'd like to recover the data if possible - no personal/confidential client
>> data was on the card - there was just some nice stuff.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> *actually it is probably a year or two old but it has been sitting on a
>> shelf unused, basically, in a friend's shop.
>> 
>> My friend who gave it to me told me that these small cards are frangible.
>> 
>> Jim Jones
>> 
>> Twitter @han4yu3
>> 
>> linkedin.com/in/jimxlat
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