SD card data recovery
Apr. 27th, 2011 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lovingbothThe 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.
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.
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Date: 2011-04-28 06:19 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2011-04-28 08:12 am (UTC)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.