I've had a bit of a nightmare and two of my SD cards, one used for file back up and another used to run a live version of Tails have both stopped working at the same time.
I'm not too bothered about the Tails card as I have all the seed's and PGP keys I need backed up on the other one which I was using with a USB C OTG adapter for android.
Currently when I plug the backup SD card into my laptop with an adapter ( I've tried 3 now ) it assigns a drive letter and appears as 'MXT-USB Storage Device USB Device' but when I try and access the drive it says it cant be read and needs formatting.
The card is a SanDisk Ultra 32GB Model number: SDSQUA4-032G-GN6MT - (hoping that might help me find the'pin out plan' or instructions on which connectors to solder to which)
The card is a 32 GB card and when I view the card in testdisk it says its capacity is 32 / 30 mb - the data type is RAW.
I can't find any partitions even on a deep search and no data is revealed with diskpart either, after a bit of a research its my opinion that the controller must have died and I'm hoping my files are uncorrupted and still in readable shape, it appears all available software I've found cannot find any additional data on the card.
It seems my only option is monolithic data extraction through soldering which seems relatively straight forward, I read this page: https://blog.acelab.eu.com/pc-3000-flash-circuit-board-and-msd-card-preparing-and-soldering.html
The only issue is those instructions are written by the company which sells the equipment needed to extract the data and we are talking £1500 + but compared to the offer of £600 for a 30 min soldering job done in a lab I'd rather go DIY. Some of the data is also sensitive and dont want people to access it.
In this webpage of instructions you have to find a compatible pin out plan (which I cant seem to access through them) - so I guess I know which connectors to solder to which connectors on the circuit board, I then need to acquire a circuit board that has the required connectors to solder from the card onto, then an adapter to connect the circuit board to in order to extract the raw data, maybe into an img file ?
But by the sounds of things my data is sitting on the card, as its a NAND card if im not mistaken, untouched with the controller broken, so I need to extract it.
I can't see a basic circuit board and adapter costing more than £150 let alone £1000.
My question is, does anyone know of a cheap DIY solution or cheap equipment (circuit board + adapter) that would do the job ?
Or of course does anyone have any advice / alternatives I could look into ?
Appreciate the help.
I'm not too bothered about the Tails card as I have all the seed's and PGP keys I need backed up on the other one which I was using with a USB C OTG adapter for android.
Currently when I plug the backup SD card into my laptop with an adapter ( I've tried 3 now ) it assigns a drive letter and appears as 'MXT-USB Storage Device USB Device' but when I try and access the drive it says it cant be read and needs formatting.
The card is a SanDisk Ultra 32GB Model number: SDSQUA4-032G-GN6MT - (hoping that might help me find the'pin out plan' or instructions on which connectors to solder to which)
The card is a 32 GB card and when I view the card in testdisk it says its capacity is 32 / 30 mb - the data type is RAW.
I can't find any partitions even on a deep search and no data is revealed with diskpart either, after a bit of a research its my opinion that the controller must have died and I'm hoping my files are uncorrupted and still in readable shape, it appears all available software I've found cannot find any additional data on the card.
It seems my only option is monolithic data extraction through soldering which seems relatively straight forward, I read this page: https://blog.acelab.eu.com/pc-3000-flash-circuit-board-and-msd-card-preparing-and-soldering.html
The only issue is those instructions are written by the company which sells the equipment needed to extract the data and we are talking £1500 + but compared to the offer of £600 for a 30 min soldering job done in a lab I'd rather go DIY. Some of the data is also sensitive and dont want people to access it.
In this webpage of instructions you have to find a compatible pin out plan (which I cant seem to access through them) - so I guess I know which connectors to solder to which connectors on the circuit board, I then need to acquire a circuit board that has the required connectors to solder from the card onto, then an adapter to connect the circuit board to in order to extract the raw data, maybe into an img file ?
But by the sounds of things my data is sitting on the card, as its a NAND card if im not mistaken, untouched with the controller broken, so I need to extract it.
I can't see a basic circuit board and adapter costing more than £150 let alone £1000.
My question is, does anyone know of a cheap DIY solution or cheap equipment (circuit board + adapter) that would do the job ?
Or of course does anyone have any advice / alternatives I could look into ?
Appreciate the help.