Case No. 1
A customer brings us an open SONY memory Stick Pro Duo card of 4GB. In fact, after the customer had seen that he can no longer access the data on the card he brought the card to a friend who worked in the field of electronics, who tried all possibilities available to him but was unable to recover any data from the card. Once the memory card reached us we read the data directly from the NAND FLASH memory and were able to rebuild the data storage algorithm. In this case we were able to recover 940 photos exactly in their original form and with the same structure. In conclusion, these data recovery procedures from the card can only be performed by special equipments and by specialised personnel, trained in recovering data from the memory card.
Case No. 2
In this case the customer brought us a KINGSTON SD CARD of 4 GB which could no longer be used in the card reader. The problem appeared as a consequence of shutting off and turning on the photo camera. In this case the reading of the dump files from each of the two chips was necessary, after which we were able to rebuild the data extraction algorithm in 3 days. As a consequence of recovery we managed to extract the photos the customer wanted as well as the photos which had been deleted a long time ago.
These two cases presented above are only two examples of solved cases, so as to give you a general idea of the data recovery process from cards. Until this moment we have over 100 solved cases.
You have formatted the memory card by mistake, have deleted some files or card requires formatting at the moment it is put into the card reader.
In case of LOGICAL DEFECTS thanks to our equipments and experience we are able to rebuild the information and recover the data on your flash drive (in the majority of cases) even if the card has been formatted or the files have been erased.
The memory card is no longer recognised by the card reader or the photo camera, when it is put into the card reader no drive appears on the computer or there is a message indicating that there is a problem with the respective card
In case of a PHYSICAL DEFECT the recovery from the flash card takes place by means of special equipments used to access directly the data on the memory chip and rebuild the data extraction algorithm. At the end the card will no longer be usable but you will have recovered all the photos from the card.
As seen above data recovery from cards is only possible using specialised equipments and with the experience of a technician specialised in cards. Practically the means of storing the data on cards differs for every card model, in other words it is very likely that two SD Kingston cards of 4GB have two different releases for controllers and NAND FLASH memories inside making it possible to recover the data only by rebuilding the different data extraction algorithms. Any card has information stored based on algorithms, such as in RAID hard disks, only the algorithm is much more complex. Practically for every card we must find the algorithm used to recover the data from the card.
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