Dead SD Card

[johnsusername]

SD card from my video camera is bust - it won't show up in the camera or two computers I've tried it in. This is the limit of my technical know how. 

 

Does anyone know how to fix it/retrieve the files off there? It's got family videos from this year including my little girl's birthday party. 

 

Has anyone ever used a company to retrieve files from a broken card? 

[VladimirIlyich]

Shit name for a band.

[Guest]

https://www.easeus.com/storage-media-recovery/recover-corrupted-sd-card.html

 

Does the website above offer any help? 

[Guest]

https://www.easeus.com/storage-media-recovery/damaged-sd-card-recovery.html

[johnsusername]

Doesn't look like - I'm presuming it's a physical problem.

 

I've found a local company who do data recovery - https://www.r3datarecovery.com/sd-card-digital-photo-recovery/

 

I've emailed them to see if they can take a look and how much it'd cost.

[stringvest]

I thought Danny had passed away and you were asking us to sign the 'With Sympathy'...

[johnsusername]

£149 to get a bust card fixed. So yeah, won't be doing that. 

[johnsusername]

£149! Fuck that. I'll just have my own memories. 

 

Anyway, I like to remember things my own way. How I remember them, not necessarily the way they happened.

[Rushies tash]

3 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

£149! Fuck that. I'll just have my own memories. 

 

Anyway, I like to remember things my own way. How I remember them, not necessarily the way they happened.

Couple of years ago the micro sd on my phone corrupted, and it had a load of photos and videos of my kids as toddlers that I hadn't backed up. Thing is, I was looking at the photos as it happened, and it was fucking horrible watching them disappear one by one in front of my eyes! Took it to a data recovery shop and he did it for about half that. Still alot of money, but like I said, there were no other copies. He recovered everything (including some "exotic" pics of the missus I that I'd deleted) and put it on a cd. Lesson learned, I back everything up now.

 

And he's now probably got a load of images to see him through the long winter evenings.

[Kloppite]

SD cards store data by using very small electrical charges.  Over time these charges get weaker and weaker so eventually they become unreadable.  In order to keep the charge on SD cards and SSD's you need to rewrite the data completely.  The thing is though the charge on a SD card or an SSD should last about 10 years as far as I know.  This is why for backing up data long term HDD's are still used.

[johnsusername]

Yeah i should buy some storage really. Would you recommend an externally powered hard drive?

[Kloppite]

its not about buying storage just keep on refreshing the contents of the SD card by copying it to the desktop and then to the SD card again. 

 

External dries can break very easily so I would recommend an online way to back up your data.