Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 07:53:28 +0100 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Recover failed SD card Message-ID: <9cb7d703-bef2-8245-615c-4a471e858f32@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <20190224055321.14e7e462.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <2341a9ac-42aa-737e-441f-b69cccc826c6@netfence.it> <20190224055321.14e7e462.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 2/24/19 5:53 AM, Polytropon wrote: > Did you ask your customer to recover from his backups? > Yes, of course you did. :-) "Back-what"? :) > This will probably apply to _any_ copying tool. For things > where dd fails, I often try dd_rescue and ddrescue As I said I tried "recoverdisk" (which is like ddrescue, but it's in base). > That's probably not directly possible. That's what I though; I just gave the ML a shot. >> The card should hold pictures, so I could go ahead with photorec once I >> got an even partial image. > > That is the recommended approach. Maybe you can already recover > a fraction of the images stored on the card. Tried that before posting; it finds nothing. To me it looks like I'm not even seeing the *first* 120 MB of the card. > There is another possibility, but it's actually _very_ hard > to do, and it's not guaranteed to work: > > Obtain an identical SD card. It has to be "as identical as > possible": same control unit, same memory unit, same firmware > revision (yes, there's "a whole computer with hard- and software" > on that thing!). Transplant the old memory chip to the new > card, removing its new memory chip (empty) beforehand. Then > try another identification. > > If it's a micro-SD card, don't inhale the chip. ;-) It's a micro-SD card and I'm not able to do this. Thanks anyway (to you and others who answered). bye av.
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