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

[Jim Jones <han4yu3 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

There is a converter but I do not have it. I thought that it might be worth
me trying that, so I want to get one.

BTW the crack is indeed along the narrower part, and it is kind of in the
middle. The contact section looks ok.

The insides I do not really know. Looks like a thorough break all the way
through.

It is not in two separate pieces yet == the crack has nearly separated them
but a very slight bit of the skin keeps the two parts together for now.
I've also put some duct tape on it to prevent further -and final -
rendering into two.

Jim Jones


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Helen OBoyle <hoboyle -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> If it is micro SD, is it in some sort of sleeve/carrier type of thing that
> converts it to look like a standard size SD, to your laptop?  Did the card
> itself break, or just the external carrier?
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 3:57 AM, 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
>> >
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>> >
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>> >
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