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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIs there a way to fix a chewed up SD card?
Hoping there is a life hack out there, or I will lose some precious photos.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)If the chip inside isn't damaged, it can be transferred to another housing, but I don't know where you could have this done and I suspect it wouldn't be cheap.
Baitball Blogger
(46,744 posts)I'll check youtube for how tos. Problem is, they always make things looks easy, and it never is.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)Define chewed up. Literally gnawed upon? Got stepped on? Rough handling? Or did it take a 500ft drop into a river at the bottom of a canyon? (Ironically, a photo of it would help.)
If it's the last one, you're probably SOL. I'm trying to ascertain the degree and type of damage to the card and whether the chip inside might be cracked or damaged in some other non-apparent way. I do have to say, they're pretty indestructable unless you run them over a magnet or set them on fire or it gets rolled or something of that sort. I've taped one to a piece of cardboard and mailed it before.
As long as the chip is unharmed, you probably don't even need to do anything to the card...there are external readers, popular with professional photographers because they facilitate quick card-changes when you have several cards to upload into the computer, that allow the cards to be plugged in and out like an old video game cartridge. (You know, like only one small end is actually plugged into anything) I have no idea where to get one of those readers...you might ask Miles Archer as he's a professional photographer. I can't think it'd be more than $20-40.
(An old video game console with cartridge, in case you had no idea what I was talking about.)
Baitball Blogger
(46,744 posts)On the other, it was split, but I still managed to read the pictures through the camera, just not through the computer.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Transfer photos. Shoot the dog or whoever chewed it.
Baitball Blogger
(46,744 posts)Dog chewed one card. I ripped the other when it got hung up on the old camera. I, um, broke the camera when I forced the SD card. Mercy is in order, if I want to be fair.