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Microsd Card unreadable, what next?

Posted: August 29th, 2013, 23:37
by samson
Hey all I like to think that I'm pretty tech savvy but I'm thinking of throwing in the towel...

I have a microsdcard (kingston, 32gb) that has stopped working. I have tried various devices (laptops, tablets, smartphones) and external card readers and none of these devices detect the card at all. I tried rubbing alcohol with a cotton swab over its terminals and that didn't work either...and now i'm really stumped.


It's not detect by windows, not detect in device mgr....nothing....so is there anything else i should try, and if not...recommendations of a cheap affordable data recovery service in canada? (or willing to be shipped from canada?)

Re: Microsd Card unreadable, what next?

Posted: August 30th, 2013, 0:15
by Doomer
Cheap and microSD don't live together, unfortunately
Not every DR company work on monolith cards, and because there are many variations of the cards, such recovery often involves research, which isn't cheap thing to do.

More info about monolith cards and why they hard to recover
http://www.recovermyflashdrive.com/mono ... he-future/
http://www.flashdrivepros.com/_blog/USB ... sh_Drives/

Re: Microsd Card unreadable, what next?

Posted: August 30th, 2013, 2:49
by PlatinumDataRecovery
Hi Samson,

Unfortunately data recovery for micro SD card is not cheap due to the completcity of monolith structure

Re: Microsd Card unreadable, what next?

Posted: August 30th, 2013, 3:04
by northwind
Ditto.

Those are difficult to handle, so expect to pay top bucks.

Re: Microsd Card unreadable, what next?

Posted: August 30th, 2013, 4:45
by HaQue
You can get it done here..

http://www.flash-extractor.com/services/ :-)

Re: Microsd Card unreadable, what next?

Posted: August 30th, 2013, 7:00
by arvika
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Re: Microsd Card unreadable, what next?

Posted: August 30th, 2013, 13:40
by samson
Bummer....well thank you all very much, i'll request some quotes and see what i come out with

Re: Microsd Card unreadable, what next?

Posted: August 30th, 2013, 18:37
by networkpc3000

Re: Microsd Card unreadable, what next?

Posted: October 3rd, 2013, 1:13
by TerraNova
Hi Haque

check PM