SD card data recovery

[lovingboth]

The microSD card in Shiny has stopped mounting, whether in the phone or in a card adaptor on the PC.

Has anyone used a data recovery service for this sort of thing? I have a budget in mind and I suspect it is rather lower than anyone would charge, not least because there is nothing that would be incredibly awful to lose on it - the photos were nice but nothing important, for example.

The main thing I'm annoyed about is that it'll take a day or two to rescan a thousand odd covers for the DVD database, for example.

I'm also trying to remember where I got the card from. It is Sandisk, it can't be that old, and I expect them to replace the thing.

Comments

[seph_hazard]

Sandisk SD card in an Android HTC phone? That's interesting - mine (4gig, the one that came with my Desire)did the exact same thing. I have a new one, now, and fingers crossed it hasn't played up yet.

[lovingboth]

Yes, although it didn't come with the Desire (it was sold in 'new' condition, but did not include microSD card: the excuse was that he had put info on it - why not just reformat it?! - and had an awful low capacity third-party battery rather than an HTC original).

Fortunately, when I put a different card in and reinstalled Shelves (it was on the microSD card) it turns out that it keeps the actual list of what you've got on the phone - I've only lost the little pictures of the covers which I can live without. Phew.

Looking back over the past week or so, Shiny has had some issues so the card was probably failing over that time. Why this isn't reported to the user is another question!

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

Sandisk SD card in an Android HTC phone? That's interesting - mine (4gig, the one that came with my Desire)did the exact same thing. I have a new one, now, and fingers crossed it hasn't played up yet.

[twangman.livejournal.com]

It is almost impossible (or it was when I worked for dictophone) to get data of sd cards if they have stopped working.
I remember with one important client we sent the card to a lab in the states to try and get the data back but they too failed to recover anything. I had many a angry call with clients mainly solicitors and doctors about this issue.
And the mantra is backup, backup and backup again.

[lovingboth]

Well, the S = Secure :/

It is the first memory card that has ever failed on me. It's still returning its size, but that's about it with the software I have here.

It turns out that the actual Shelves database is on the phone and all I've lost of it are the little pictures of the covers, which a) I can live without and b) I can ask the author for a 'get them' feature to be added.

Apart from that, there are some photos I don't really care about and, erm, that's it I think. I just need to reinstall a few programs.

On the PC, it would take two companies, one of them Google, to fail before we lose email / photos / documents.

[banzee simmons (from livejournal.com)]

I have faced one or two instances of abrupt data loss with my sony phones too, where the card is unable to get recognized by phone. At that time i had used http://www.retrievephotos.com/, a product specially designed to recover photos, audios and videos. It had helped me a lot.. But I have nt used it since a while as my phone is working good now.