hddguy wrote:
dick wrote:
Hi,
If you can get the 56 pin tsop off of the old card you would of course dump the contents as a backup. Then if you can find an identical working card, with good soldering skills and tools, it should be possible to swap the tsop device to the new replacement. You should then be able to access the data in the standard manner.
Thats how I would approach it.
You have a lot of success with this method?
Yep. I have used this method about ten times and have a 100% success rate.
The hardest part is often to find a suitable recipitent device!
As for corrupted data in the flash memory chip I have yet to encounter a single case but I realise it is always a possiblity. If the data is corrupted then the job would be very hard indeed as the block order, striping etc would be even harder to work out. In that scenario I don't think it would make economic sense for most cases.
Maybe I was lucky on all those 10 or so recoveries.
My view is to try the easy/inexpensive method first and then move to the next.