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Dead SD card
kyanwan:
Ye know - with cards that are used / moved a shitload ... I see one thing that was overlooked.
Cleaning the card.
I have a pocketpc that has a SD card - the thing always gets shit inside it. Ditto with the 20ish SD cards that go thru the camera here - they get shitty & also break eventually. Get a cotton swab & some 90% alcohol - wipe off all the connectors. Give it another fly.
If it's been this much trouble so far - with all the stuff you've done - might be time to just give up on it. ( From the looks of what you've gone through so far, I'd have given up on it myself - and redone the work. )
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: kyanwan on July 12, 2010, 07:12:10 PM ---Ye know - with cards that are used / moved a shitload ... I see one thing that was overlooked.
Cleaning the card.
I have a pocketpc that has a SD card - the thing always gets shit inside it. Ditto with the 20ish SD cards that go thru the camera here - they get shitty & also break eventually. Get a cotton swab & some 90% alcohol - wipe off all the connectors. Give it another fly.
If it's been this much trouble so far - with all the stuff you've done - might be time to just give up on it. ( From the looks of what you've gone through so far, I'd have given up on it myself - and redone the work. )
--- End quote ---
Yeah, though the card was always kept inside the phone. Hidden underneath the battery cover. So it's clean, most definitely. To be sure, I wiped it several times, with firm pressure, with my shirt... not exactly alcohol, but the connectors are quite shiny. Metallic shiny, not oily shiny.
Well I'm pretty stubborn, heh. In addition, I ordered something a while back, and it came in today, and surprisingly it comes with a MicroSD card reader. So it looks like I unexpectedly have another option to try.
I'll be trying more stuff tomorrow, but I'm just about ready to quit, and maybe let it sit for a while and see if I can recover anything later. Not holding my breath though.
And the files on it are files like images, videos, etc. that I took on my phone or transferred from a computer. I could just re-edit all the images and put them on a new card, but all the data I took with my phone is lost, without backup too. I guess I'm one of those people who find sentimental value in that kinda stuff, and yet too lazy to back it up... >.>
Edit: New reader isn't working either. And actually the card gets excessively hot when it's connected. Like, ridiculously hot, almost too hot to touch. So I'm guessing there's a short in the card somehow.
Edit: So I searched slightly different terms and came up with suggestions for ZAR (Zero Assumption Recovery). The name sounds rather promising. It's payware, but the image recovery part of the program is free. So I'm going to give it a shot.
Edit: No luck, ZAR sees 0B in the card. The few results I found seem to think that ZAR is among the best, if not the best. So I guess I'll try dd, and if that doesn't work, I'll leave it be for a couple weeks. Thanks everyone for the help.
Freedom Kira:
(Double post for bump)
Alright, finally got around to booting into Ubuntu on my laptop. Turns out I haven't done that for 297 days... So, needless to say, it's running 9.04, but I doubt that's an issue.
Anyway, card was not detected at all. It was pretty much blatantly ignored; the presence of the readers was detected, but not the card. So, as a result of a pre-emptive problem, dd did not work. I used three different interfaces - a MicroSD (USB) card reader, an SD (USB) card reader with a MicroSD-SD adapter, and an SD (built-in) card reader with the same adapter. All three had the same result.
I might give it another shot on Thursday... depends what kind of mood I'm in. Maybe plug in stuff in a different order. I'm not holding my breath though. Then again I didn't really try all that hard today, so...
Anyway, thanks everyone for the suggestions. I have fewer regrets now that I've at least tried. If anyone has any more suggestions, let me know. I would open up the chip to see if there's any physical damage, but that seems rather hard to do.
Side note, I've seen the awesomeness of 10.04 and will probably upgrade and use it more often.
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