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Is there a way to fix a chewed up SD card? (Original Post) Baitball Blogger May 2016 OP
Possibly Major Nikon May 2016 #1
I'm sure the chip inside is not damaged. Baitball Blogger May 2016 #2
No idea if this will work but you might want to look at it to see if it might help. MADem May 2016 #3
As long as the chip inside is completely undamaged, you haven't lost anything. Chan790 May 2016 #4
It looks like the metal connectors maybe be damaged on one. Baitball Blogger May 2016 #5
Put the chip in the camera. Hook the camera up to the computer. NV Whino May 2016 #6
LOL! Baitball Blogger May 2016 #7
Okay, the dog lives. You, I don't know. NV Whino May 2016 #8

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
1. Possibly
Sat May 28, 2016, 11:50 AM
May 2016

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)
2. I'm sure the chip inside is not damaged.
Sat May 28, 2016, 12:11 PM
May 2016

I'll check youtube for how tos. Problem is, they always make things looks easy, and it never is.

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
4. As long as the chip inside is completely undamaged, you haven't lost anything.
Sat May 28, 2016, 03:17 PM
May 2016

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)
5. It looks like the metal connectors maybe be damaged on one.
Sat May 28, 2016, 05:00 PM
May 2016

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)
6. Put the chip in the camera. Hook the camera up to the computer.
Sat May 28, 2016, 07:11 PM
May 2016

Transfer photos. Shoot the dog… or whoever chewed it.

Baitball Blogger

(46,744 posts)
7. LOL!
Sat May 28, 2016, 09:44 PM
May 2016

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.

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