very damaged microsd card from Europe part 1

[@awilliams1701]

This is just insane. Your skills always impress. It's hard to imagine soldering on wires and traces that appear to be smaller than a hair.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Soldering those isn't a problem, the problem is how close they are bunched together ;)

[@pdrg]

@@hddrecoveryservices Half a hair apart!

[@stevemacbr]

​@@hddrecoveryservices - 100% - sooooo small,... that's 0.002" or 0.05mm (50um micro meters) - In the 1990's I was using a (Laser based) Atomic Force Microscope to detect production failures in Optical Media for Sony,... and it took 45minutes to SCAN an area of 150nano meters !!! (0.000000150m) - I think I covered most of the other 'production related failures' in my recent comment. - Great work @HDD - Bravo .

[@awilliams1701]

@@hddrecoveryservices I'm impressed by both.

[@DesignerMix]

Relaxing soldering? Nope, i sweat just watching it. Great work

[@hddrecoveryservices]

I sweated the hell out on this one

[@dfgaJK]

I often find it astonishing how big the point of a needle can look when working on small electronics. I often find it worth the time to take a photo of the board and trace it out from breaks to endpoints so that time isn't wasted fixing traces when the wire can just be soldered to vias or pads. I'm liking the 30in30 vids!

[@jeropa3d]

If I had to go through surgery I would trust you more than a actual surgeon. This precision is just another level. I can't solder anything smaller than a HDMI port. Amazing skills.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

thanks Jero

[@protreo]

Amount of work you put here is enormous, keep it up!

[@alexanderreintzsch5315]

Watching this soldering makes me catch my breath and I can feel my pulse and heart beating. How can you keep working so steady for such a long time in a row? And how do you watch this? On a huge screen using the camera? Amazing! Truely amazing!

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Microscope I use has a phototube that catches what's in the oculars. It's mainly about planting your hands to "tripod" the tweezers and iron

[@justin96385274]

Awesome video. Sometime, when you solder little wires, i cant breathe.

[@DiskTuna]

then i hope you wrote this *after* you watched ;)

[@varmint243davev7]

Wow, that is some seriously impressive workmanship

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thank you

[@argee99]

You would make a great surgeon! Thank you for the videos...

[@leidonanam]

you can use sunshine superfine silver jump wire SS-007E for faster jump

[@hadjsaidahmed3144]

We will stay tuned for parts 2

[@hddrecoveryservices]

See you tomorrow

[@artursmihelsons415]

That was crazy! These tracks looked like they can be easily pulled up with soldering iron.. Layer was so thin! Great try! 👍

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks Arturs

[@psycho4639]

this one is like an exam on microsoldering good job !!!

[@stevemacbr]

@HDD - Love watching your work in DATA RECOVERY, AND SEEING ( read - my keeping up with) - the drive into Software emulation & almost 'fully automated' diagnostics & repair/error correction, mapping & remapping tools. . They way (read -evolution of) electronics / technology methodologies have advanced from 'bread-boards' - to Hard- wired electronics - to single-sided & doule-sided Printed Circuit Boards to multi-layered PCB's were manufactured is amazing. BUT - each 'two steps forward' brought one step backwards, as high speed manufacturing 'profits' are initially at a co$t, due to issues of reliability, due to growing awarenese of process control & automated testing. - In the early 1980's, I was in graphics terminals manufacture, with 6-layer boards, with vias and plate-through holes in abundance - All of which I needed to use bulky, expensive hardware programmable emulators, & logic analyses to trouble shoot to component level. - NOW with 'micro-electronics & surface mount technologies',... those same 'production challenges' for (mask errors and) reliability still exist - and where Logical/digital Memory & CPU functionality increased, yet SHRUNK down into 'single-chip' boards,... Likewise MEMORY has now been SHRUNK down to micro-SD cards with ALL of the inherent TRACK and VIA issues that continually PLAGUES/ED the 'semiconductor process industry'. -

[@HighMansx]

Soldering wires to the traces, I can do that no problem! Making sure they don't short to each other... that's a different question.

[@gurhanbayr5080]

lets cu after 45 :))) i started to have problems in short sights after 48 and since than i cant do soldering wihtout a magnifier or microscope. Erkin keep up going good 3/30 and waiting more. Regards from istanbul. NB: I salute you for your soldering skill. I could not watch it normally , it stressed me like i am making the soldering, as i said i salute you.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Hopefully, by 45 I am retired on Kadena bad Flux bags :)

[@OldePhart]

wow, you really dont get the scale of what you were working on until you see the small green patch on the breakout board. That was way smaller than I imagined !

[@hddrecoveryservices]

This thing stressed me out a lot :) working under 75x zoom. What made it hard was spacing between the traces.

[@ecutechltd]

Hi. Thanks for posting different techniques of soldering. I do something similar here in the UK, but on vehicle ECU's with fine pitch MCU's. Was just wondering what iron and tip you use. Is it a Weller?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

jbc

[@ecutechltd]

@@hddrecoveryservices Thanks!

[@williamlyerly3114]

Am assuming that the wire that you are using is insulated and the “fluxing and scraping” before each trace repair is an insulation removal procedure??

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Exactly, the wire is coated to prevent shorts

[@jmikronis7376]

This is something I could do. The stereo microscope I’ve got. The soldering pencil, I don’t have. The flux and solder, that’s nothing. The skills to solder at that level, easy. I’d be using the 30x magnification to make things easier to see. Oh, and, yeah, paying customers.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

clients will pay if they see you do it, not talk about being able to do it in comments 🤣

[@app213]

Random question: Is it possible to connect the damaged card's NAND to an identical working card's NAND. Then connect the working card to a reader and recover the damaged card's raw data ?

[@sadder9531]

if you zoom in with the help of different light color and intensities and angles you may figure out where the damaged parts were going , should zoom in much much more.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Card was recovered by NAND protocol

[@b8hri11]

Hello. My microSD Sandisk Ultra do not save data after reinsert. Any way to fix it?

[@kwong83]

Awesome work. Question: why wouldn't you just solder from via to via bypassing the break in the trace?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Good question, if I ran it VIA to VIA, then it would be harder to connect to NAND protocol later. Other end will be used for that. You'll see it tomorrow 😜

[@eugrafcmg]

Suppose you have the wire already in your hands and just extend to nand protocol would make 3 "easy" joints rather than 4 later? I have no experience but doing all this crazy bends and tight joints looks lot more difficult than I imagined as above

[@OldePhart]

Completely off this topic but have you repaired any spinning drives that were part of a failed striped RAID set ? I would enjoy seeing how you put the striped data pieces together. Would also enjoy seeing how you can determine if an encrypted drive of any type has been recovered successfully since you can't see its contents. Do they have to give you the key?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Yes we need to the for data validation. Otherwise it's pay upfront for as is results. We work on RAIDs, I think I gave a few cases shot for it. I gotta dive deep into my hard drive recovery footage drive. There is like a year worth of content. Maybe after #30in30 I get so used to making them daily, we go #365in365 j/k

[@OldePhart]

@@hddrecoveryservices365 eh? that might be a bit much to hope for...52/365 maybe ... :) I'm trying to grasp the data reconstruction part too. You breeze through it so easily its tough to follow how you decide what the next step (interleave, voltage, ecc) is. I can't expect you to give a tutorial on that especially since you make you living doing it, but it would be interesting to know a simplified version if my old brain can keep up. :) Thanks for posting all this. If I ever have a need, you are my first call.

[@jeanpierreschepers834]

Dam, those traces are so small, takes talent to do what you do. Thanks for the great content, maybe put music over it?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

I put music over most of the time. This one is more RAW expression of trying to show the frustration while achieving precision needed to bond the damage

[@RandomNullpointer]

@@hddrecoveryservices That was torture 😁 I hope you got well paid for it

[@munzirel-sheikhtech1496]

Great 👍 Do you recommend r studio data recovery as the best data recovery software ?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

It's a staple for me. Best value for money in my opinion

[@enzofitzhume7320]

I use conductive paint on my data recovery projects. You need a good microscope and a micro brush. Saves a lot of time!

[@hddrecoveryservices]

it would not have worked in this case.

[@johncunningham5435]

Probably one of the most damaged card I have seen.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Have you seen this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaSpfKOni82Ibpo

[@dimassskin]

Это просто БОГ флешек и жёстких дисков!))))

[@ThatBritalian]

I may sound stupid but I accidentally snapped my micro sd card in half and had some important drone footage on there is it recoverable?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

No, sorry that's not recoverable

[@craigreich8046]

My son just out of high school would like to know how you got into the business? Is there a school for just this? Did you apprentice or just teach yourself? What would you say to young people that would like to start a career in data recovery? Just an idea for one of your 30 in 30 videos.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

It's a good one, I will bring that up next week probably

[@laboratorioassembler]

You are a god

[@VadimChervanenko]

Maaaaaaaaaan! Some times in that type of works, use match head for show size example =)))))

[@wonkyu1qlee66]

Wow amazing!

[@mistakesweremade6771]

Where can I learn what u do?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

I learn every day

[@mr.unknown1386]

Soldering videos plz

[@hddrecoveryservices]

You got it

[@makaramaali3335]

Good job

[@thegroove2000]

BACK UP BACK UP BACK UP.

[@lignatious]

спасибо :)

[@vaibhavhihoriya526]

Long videos are fine but for soldaring this long is much

[@FR4M3Sharma]

I can't even on the screen which trace you're soldering. Jesus fucking Christ, you have some Good Eyes and Steady Hands. XD

[@onetimelifebigcamera1607]

👍👍🤩

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks dude

[@Josh.Straughn]

Poor thing look like it lived half its life in a rock tumbler filled with saltwater and gravel

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Truly does

[@ExecutorQ3]

i love your vids, but your "0.01/0.02mm" scale does not seems right... are you sure you did not ment just 0.1/0.2mm ? :) (i also do a bit of soldering in my work - audio and tech around it - but i cannot really imagine 0.01mm enameled wire) (edit: and before some sjw warrior starts screeching - i'm not saying you're lying, i'm just pointing out that those sizes seems way too small and if it indeed is right then... "damn son" ! :) )

[@hddrecoveryservices]

I do my usual soldering of microSD card to NAND adapter with 46AWG =0.04mm but for trace repair in this case I had to scale it down. These size wires are often used in the phone repair industry. I did sweat a little on this case, but I got it done. amzn.to/3RDVeGR - 0.01mm amzn.to/3wTvX3t - 0.02mm if you liked this episode, then watch this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaSpfKOni82Ibpo this case is by far my biggest pride and joy :)

[@Ogecerbtp]

the soldering process is mediocre. You should improve on soldering. You should increase your skill.🙃

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Noted ;)