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I have an SD card that was left in a MacBook Pro and subsequently bent directly across the lining of where the SD card sticks out from the SD card slot. The card is not detected by computer or camera, and it has a lot of important (and sadly, not backed-up) footage. Is there any way to recover the footage?
The pins are completely untouched and the backside looks fine. The front side has an indent which causes a slight bend in the SD card. I attached a picture which hopefully will clear up what I mean.
I searched the internet quite a bit and found a lot of closely related but not identical issues to mine. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
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I have an SD card that was left in a MacBook Pro and subsequently bent directly across the lining of where the SD card sticks out from the SD card slot. The card is not detected by computer or camera, and it has a lot of important (and sadly, not backed-up) footage. Is there any way to recover the footage?
The pins are completely untouched and the backside looks fine. The front side has an indent which causes a slight bend in the SD card. I attached a picture which hopefully will clear up what I mean.
I searched the internet quite a bit and found a lot of closely related but not identical issues to mine. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
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I have an SD card that was left in a MacBook Pro and subsequently bent directly across the lining of where the SD card sticks out from the SD card slot. The card is not detected by computer or camera, and it has a lot of important (and sadly, not backed-up) footage. Is there any way to recover the footage?
The pins are completely untouched and the backside looks fine. The front side has an indent which causes a slight bend in the SD card. I attached a picture which hopefully will clear up what I mean.
I searched the internet quite a bit and found a lot of closely related but not identical issues to mine. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
equipment-damage memory-card sdcard file-recovery
asked 2 hours ago
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I have an SD card that was left in a MacBook Pro and subsequently bent directly across the lining of where the SD card sticks out from the SD card slot. The card is not detected by computer or camera, and it has a lot of important (and sadly, not backed-up) footage. Is there any way to recover the footage?
The pins are completely untouched and the backside looks fine. The front side has an indent which causes a slight bend in the SD card. I attached a picture which hopefully will clear up what I mean.
I searched the internet quite a bit and found a lot of closely related but not identical issues to mine. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
equipment-damage memory-card sdcard file-recovery
equipment-damage memory-card sdcard file-recovery
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Most likely, the SD card is toast. Sorry. =(
At best (but very unlikely), inside the SD card you'll find a very small flash memory chip with very thin individual wires going to the SD card's external electrical contacts. It's possible one or more of those wires was severed, and all that's needed is to reattach those wires with a soldering gun.
But more likely, from the description you gave, the flash memory chip experienced a bending moment that caused it to fracture. Silicon semiconductor has a crystal structure, and is not flexible. It will crack and break in response to bending forces, rather than deform and bounce back. When that happens, the chip experiences fatal failure that cannot be recovered from — circuit paths are severed.
The only advice I can give is for the future: use Micro SD Cards in a MicroSD-to-SD card adapter. That will keep the packaged Micro SD card at the rear of the SD card adapter, beyond the shear line where the SD card adapter intersects the plane of the MacBook Pro's case.
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I think scottbb's answer is probably correct - but there's one other possibility that's worth checking, which might give similar symptoms.
I have an SD card that wasn't being recognised by some devices. Eventually,
I tracked the problem down to the plastic dividers between the contacts.
They're pretty thin bits of plastic, and on my card, one of them had broken where the divider meets the leading edge of the card. Since the divider turns out only to be attached to the body of the card at the leading and trailing
edge of the contacts, that basically let it hinge at the trailing edge - so if it hit anything while being inserted, it would swing across over one of the neighbouring contacts and prevent the card reader connection from reaching the contact.
If something like that's happened to your card, then carefully straightening (I tried this with mine and didn't have a high success rate) or removing the offending divider may let you access the card - otherwise, I suspect scottbb is right and the chip or an internal connection is broken.
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Most likely, the SD card is toast. Sorry. =(
At best (but very unlikely), inside the SD card you'll find a very small flash memory chip with very thin individual wires going to the SD card's external electrical contacts. It's possible one or more of those wires was severed, and all that's needed is to reattach those wires with a soldering gun.
But more likely, from the description you gave, the flash memory chip experienced a bending moment that caused it to fracture. Silicon semiconductor has a crystal structure, and is not flexible. It will crack and break in response to bending forces, rather than deform and bounce back. When that happens, the chip experiences fatal failure that cannot be recovered from — circuit paths are severed.
The only advice I can give is for the future: use Micro SD Cards in a MicroSD-to-SD card adapter. That will keep the packaged Micro SD card at the rear of the SD card adapter, beyond the shear line where the SD card adapter intersects the plane of the MacBook Pro's case.
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Most likely, the SD card is toast. Sorry. =(
At best (but very unlikely), inside the SD card you'll find a very small flash memory chip with very thin individual wires going to the SD card's external electrical contacts. It's possible one or more of those wires was severed, and all that's needed is to reattach those wires with a soldering gun.
But more likely, from the description you gave, the flash memory chip experienced a bending moment that caused it to fracture. Silicon semiconductor has a crystal structure, and is not flexible. It will crack and break in response to bending forces, rather than deform and bounce back. When that happens, the chip experiences fatal failure that cannot be recovered from — circuit paths are severed.
The only advice I can give is for the future: use Micro SD Cards in a MicroSD-to-SD card adapter. That will keep the packaged Micro SD card at the rear of the SD card adapter, beyond the shear line where the SD card adapter intersects the plane of the MacBook Pro's case.
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Most likely, the SD card is toast. Sorry. =(
At best (but very unlikely), inside the SD card you'll find a very small flash memory chip with very thin individual wires going to the SD card's external electrical contacts. It's possible one or more of those wires was severed, and all that's needed is to reattach those wires with a soldering gun.
But more likely, from the description you gave, the flash memory chip experienced a bending moment that caused it to fracture. Silicon semiconductor has a crystal structure, and is not flexible. It will crack and break in response to bending forces, rather than deform and bounce back. When that happens, the chip experiences fatal failure that cannot be recovered from — circuit paths are severed.
The only advice I can give is for the future: use Micro SD Cards in a MicroSD-to-SD card adapter. That will keep the packaged Micro SD card at the rear of the SD card adapter, beyond the shear line where the SD card adapter intersects the plane of the MacBook Pro's case.
answered 2 hours ago
scottbb
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Most likely, the SD card is toast. Sorry. =(
At best (but very unlikely), inside the SD card you'll find a very small flash memory chip with very thin individual wires going to the SD card's external electrical contacts. It's possible one or more of those wires was severed, and all that's needed is to reattach those wires with a soldering gun.
But more likely, from the description you gave, the flash memory chip experienced a bending moment that caused it to fracture. Silicon semiconductor has a crystal structure, and is not flexible. It will crack and break in response to bending forces, rather than deform and bounce back. When that happens, the chip experiences fatal failure that cannot be recovered from — circuit paths are severed.
The only advice I can give is for the future: use Micro SD Cards in a MicroSD-to-SD card adapter. That will keep the packaged Micro SD card at the rear of the SD card adapter, beyond the shear line where the SD card adapter intersects the plane of the MacBook Pro's case.
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I think scottbb's answer is probably correct - but there's one other possibility that's worth checking, which might give similar symptoms.
I have an SD card that wasn't being recognised by some devices. Eventually,
I tracked the problem down to the plastic dividers between the contacts.
They're pretty thin bits of plastic, and on my card, one of them had broken where the divider meets the leading edge of the card. Since the divider turns out only to be attached to the body of the card at the leading and trailing
edge of the contacts, that basically let it hinge at the trailing edge - so if it hit anything while being inserted, it would swing across over one of the neighbouring contacts and prevent the card reader connection from reaching the contact.
If something like that's happened to your card, then carefully straightening (I tried this with mine and didn't have a high success rate) or removing the offending divider may let you access the card - otherwise, I suspect scottbb is right and the chip or an internal connection is broken.
answered 1 hour ago
JerryTheC
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I think scottbb's answer is probably correct - but there's one other possibility that's worth checking, which might give similar symptoms.
I have an SD card that wasn't being recognised by some devices. Eventually,
I tracked the problem down to the plastic dividers between the contacts.
They're pretty thin bits of plastic, and on my card, one of them had broken where the divider meets the leading edge of the card. Since the divider turns out only to be attached to the body of the card at the leading and trailing
edge of the contacts, that basically let it hinge at the trailing edge - so if it hit anything while being inserted, it would swing across over one of the neighbouring contacts and prevent the card reader connection from reaching the contact.
If something like that's happened to your card, then carefully straightening (I tried this with mine and didn't have a high success rate) or removing the offending divider may let you access the card - otherwise, I suspect scottbb is right and the chip or an internal connection is broken.
answered 1 hour ago
JerryTheC
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I think scottbb's answer is probably correct - but there's one other possibility that's worth checking, which might give similar symptoms.
I have an SD card that wasn't being recognised by some devices. Eventually,
I tracked the problem down to the plastic dividers between the contacts.
They're pretty thin bits of plastic, and on my card, one of them had broken where the divider meets the leading edge of the card. Since the divider turns out only to be attached to the body of the card at the leading and trailing
edge of the contacts, that basically let it hinge at the trailing edge - so if it hit anything while being inserted, it would swing across over one of the neighbouring contacts and prevent the card reader connection from reaching the contact.
If something like that's happened to your card, then carefully straightening (I tried this with mine and didn't have a high success rate) or removing the offending divider may let you access the card - otherwise, I suspect scottbb is right and the chip or an internal connection is broken.
answered 1 hour ago
JerryTheC
2,385311
I think scottbb's answer is probably correct - but there's one other possibility that's worth checking, which might give similar symptoms.
I have an SD card that wasn't being recognised by some devices. Eventually,
I tracked the problem down to the plastic dividers between the contacts.
They're pretty thin bits of plastic, and on my card, one of them had broken where the divider meets the leading edge of the card. Since the divider turns out only to be attached to the body of the card at the leading and trailing
edge of the contacts, that basically let it hinge at the trailing edge - so if it hit anything while being inserted, it would swing across over one of the neighbouring contacts and prevent the card reader connection from reaching the contact.
If something like that's happened to your card, then carefully straightening (I tried this with mine and didn't have a high success rate) or removing the offending divider may let you access the card - otherwise, I suspect scottbb is right and the chip or an internal connection is broken.
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