Sandisk Memory Stick pro duo 4gb

[cirneco]

Hi all.
A friend of mine removed this card from camera when it was on. Now windows recognizes the card but asks to format it and R-studio detect it as a memory of 238.25mb. This is the log from secinspect:


Target - \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE4
30 Cylinders
255 Heads
63 Sectors Per Track
512 BytesPerSector
11 MediaType

===========================================================================
Master Boot Record
===========================================================================
| B | FS TYPE | START | END | | |
| F | (hex) | C H S| C H S| RELATIVE | TOTAL |
===========================================================================
| | 00 | 0 0 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0|
| | 00 | 0 0 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0|
| | 00 | 0 0 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0|
| | 00 | 0 0 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0|
===========================================================================
Disk Signature 0x00000000



LBN 0 [C 0, H 0, S 1]

0x0000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0070 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0080 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0090 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x00f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0100 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0120 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0130 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0140 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0150 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0160 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0170 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0180 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x0190 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0x01f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

Bad view! Any chance to recover the pictures?

Thanks in advance

gabriele

[Zero Alpha]

If you can't read all its sectors then it has a hardware fault. Time to start making calls.

[labtech]

In R-Studio, in the hex view option, when you scroll through the entire device, do you data? Or all zeros?

May your friend have accidently attempted to format, wipe or erase the card?

[hddguy]

R-studio detect it as a memory of 238.25mb.

This is beyond any DIY repairs.

It is also likely that this is monolithic device also. Maybe you are lucky and will be 8 bit device, then chance of recovery in professional lab is high.

[einstein9]

this might be Controller issue
you will need Proper tools