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This card was sent to us by another data recovery shop for the extraction of content. The card did not display any activity from the translator. After initializing this card, every sector just showed empty sectors. Usually, this type of behavior is related to a broken connection with the NAND, but this card was sealed. In the past, we had seen cards with damaged traces caused by saltwater damage at the interface, but not way deep into the mask. After testing continuity between opposing poles of traces, we found 16 traces that were not conducting. It goes without saying, that this was a highly technical and precise procedure that really did challenge our skills.
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this video: • microsd with worst damage
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[@shadowwolf225]

I'm no stranger to board surgery including jumping traces that look ok but don't ring. Watching this from my level of competence was extremely enjoyable. This is the culmination of having all the right kit and having a technician that is an absolute master at his craft. Well done man! It may have taken only 22 minutes to watch but I wouldn't doubt this being a 22 hour project. You do make it look easy. Sign of a true master.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thank you! I am glad you think this. This truly means a lot. It was a long battle and a struggle with this card, but I have to say that this is my absolute favorite card repair to date. I even epoxied the card after and it's on my keychain now LOL (seriously)

[@catharperfect7036]

JBC Nano?

[@B3T4F15HM4N]

​@@hddrecoveryservices can i know how do i send a card to you for recovery, cause i have a bent micro sd card and told be that the memory chip coulb be broken, can you help. The files are really important to me.

[@Jdbye]

And here I thought Louis Rossmann's job was hard. This is a new level of microsoldering. Nice work.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

slightly different scale :)

[@TradieTrev]

The hands of a surgeon! Lovely done!

[@ZED-PV]

Even a surgeon doesn't need those hands 😂😂

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks guys!

[@theroyalaustralian]

@@hddrecoveryservices do you fix fake micro sd cards forced to read past sector y or x or whatever it is?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

@@theroyalaustralian they overwrite SA by exceeding the physical limit and become unrecoverable. SA contains markers for block sequence

[@theroyalaustralian]

@@hddrecoveryservices are you able to fix this is what I asked

[@MilanGajicBuva]

Patience of a saint man. Watching you work with those tiny wires rickels my anxiety nerve. Awesome!

[@TheSudsy]

Me: Can't tin a 2mm copper cable HDD R S: Tins a microscopic trace

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Hahaha 😂

[@charackthe]

I can't even solder cables to an led strip :D tip is too big I guess :)

[@tompeters4234]

This was a crazy ride. Excellent editing showing the parts. It's easy to forget the amount of effort to beautiful sensible videos. I am still amazed at the effort put in on this one little card. The taste of success is always great.

[@pjhb_microsoldering_portugal]

Amazing soldering skils, thanks for your videos 👍🇵🇹

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Glad you like them!

[@polestar696]

I got to say you are a very talented man. Can't believe you managed to repair that card. Love the long format of you videos. All the best from UK.

[@Bobbias]

Never seen anything like this before. It's incredible to see what's goes into this kind of work. I had no idea it was even possible for a microSD to sustain that sort of damage.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks for your feedback

[@richards7909]

Amazing. Hand soldering anything that small is a miracle. Fixing that many issues is mind blowing. As for the apologising for the mess of the fixes and the flux, the fact you managed to get some data off it intact is fantastic and I hope the customer appreciates it, Finally, you should get a nice high res picture of it taken and blown up (with a little inset of the card at actual size for scale) to show customers what can do :)

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thank you Richard!

[@EmcBraz]

I loved the idea of taking a picture and then identify the traces by different colours. I will use this to repair a damaged keyboard membrane. Thanks!!!

[@ToPanPawel]

Master at its work! Magnificent job! Congratulations!

[@hddrecoveryservices]

thank you

[@BradBo1140]

That was absolutely FASCINATING. I know there are ways to get data off a damaged harddrive if the surface isn’t destroyed. But I never realized it was possible to rebuild contacts at this level. After awhile I noticed your probes had a micro tip. They looked too big initially.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

thanks Brad, yeah the tips are genuine fluke micro series, but they are huge for this job. I need to get or make some finer ones for sure.

[@paultomlinson528]

Well done mate, that's a huge amount of work well done!

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Challenging work is always the most rewarding to resolve

[@iainstingemore4048]

Great work and you still didn't give up on the card, can't see anyone persevering as much as you do.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

There was a few times where I thought it's cooked. Until the last signal was traced to ground, I even had a dead end outro filmed :)

[@iainstingemore4048]

Brilliant different endings I've only seen one you couldn't do because of the physical damage on the discs of an HDD because of you I shall never throw a drive away I will try controllers arms etc. Great job mate.

[@patrickbetts5504]

Wow. This is precision soldering! Patience does pay out.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

thanks

[@technovatives]

Sir, you have any online course on data recovery. I really want to learn this

[@johnflynn6140]

right and this guy knows his stuff boy.

[@aonoloki]

In my mind, his channel could be use for teaching stuff, every video contain some cool stuff/knowledge

[@fixitman2174]

Every PNY flash device I've ever owned has failed. Seeing those traces confirmed my suspicion: their products are poorly made. Thanks for the video, and good job recovering what you could from that piece of garbage.

[@mdwdirect]

Brilliant and thorough analysis and repair.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

thank you!

[@justacardshort]

I'm not sure why KZbin decided to wait two days to send me a notification for this episode but better late than never! Glad I was able to catch this one. That card would have beat most anyone, especially without a donor! A big round of applause on this one bro.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks Jonathon. Great feedback

[@roseelectronics4582]

The GOAT is back in business!

[@hddrecoveryservices]

What up 😜

[@skm5779]

The Bear is looking for you.

[@johncunningham5435]

This is a lot of work; "I like the full content", gives greater appreciation in how the operation is performed, (excellent).

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thank you very much!

[@playmangostingiu2217]

Thumbs up this time is mandatory. That's incredible how you managed this situation and made that electronic micro surgery job . Tools can help but a good head go beyond and is a guarantee for best results

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks for your feedback 👍

[@sysghost]

I've tried to recover data from micro sd cards myself once, and I know how tiny these traces are. Amazing to see how efficiently you rewired them. I kept getting shorts to ground all the time as I kept getting solder-bridges all over. But eventually, I managed to get it right. The hardest part for me was to expose the copper layer. I just didn't have the tools for it. There I wonder... what tool did you use there to expose the copper layer like that?

[@HandFromCoffin]

it's a fiberglass "pencil"

[@joesalgadSF415]

Bro you’re a master at this and please I don’t mind the long videos. Thanks

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Awesome

[@androidhacksandtricks641]

You have a lot of patience. Nice Job 👍. Keep it up. For sure, None other repairer can do such a hard work on these rotten devices like you did.

[@jacobandtanya]

Great work. This is why I chose to send a sd card to you for repair recently.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks guys

[@colliecandle]

Your channel is certainly the best form of advertising there is for the type of work you do. i will be sending you a SState drive soon, which will be a 'breeze' after this hellish fiddly job on this video.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

sounds good!

[@zomaardan]

Im 52 and homeless and i want to learn this but i dont know how to go about. You're my new hero sir. I quess you must feel pride, i would.

[@hightttech]

What is your current trade or skillset?

[@gwhiz1397]

Remarkable patience. Bravo!

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thank you, this has not been a simple one :)

[@varmint243davev7]

Another unbelievably amazing recovery - there is no way you could have made money on a job like that - your pride won't let you be beaten by a chip :-)

[@marcellachine5718]

Of course he made money on that job.

[@nizedk]

Absolutely fantastic work. However, I had one thought; if the traces were of very poor quality and degraded - how much of the damage was introduced from the scratch pen? Could the screen be taken of better chemically?

[@numbr6]

I've seen chip reballing templates. If a solder trace template could be made for each uSD card you might just use solder paste, heat it up, and possibly that would re-connect all of the degraded traces. Brain surgeon scale work for sure! Well done.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Force of tension will not let traces link. Each end will pull solder to the center

[@GetGood5]

This was awesome :) I love these kinds of impossible repairs!

[@smokingone]

amazing that you were able to get it to read!

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks 👍

[@stephenperez3134]

Wowza! Incredible patience and work.

[@danielpetersen2147]

Hi Erkin. Sorry if you've answered this elsewhere, but where do you get that little fiberglass(?) scraper for scraping off the solder mask? Thanks!

[@rmirov]

I had a uSD card that may have spent a few years in brackish water. Initially it looked like the traces to the card-edge fingers were the only opens, but fixing those didn't work. After learning from you about "scratch pens" I took off the rest of the epoxy and found quite a few opens right in the middle of the card. It turns out that the "Made in China" laser-marked text on the card backside caused the epoxy covering to thin so much that the underlying traces could corrode. I could almost read the text in the copper corrosion pattern. Adding nine jumper wires allowed the drive to be recognized and a directory structure to be pulled off for recovery.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

That's amazing my dude!

[@rmirov]

@@hddrecoveryservices I've not been able to play the recovered mp4 file yet ("moov atom not found" error). But clearly fixing all the opens due to the corrosion worked. I don't have the recovery tools to fix the file. Ping me and I can send you some images of the corrosion pattern.

[@dtiydr]

I used to do similar and even smaller solderings without a microscope since I'm nearsighted but its really getting a toll on you so you need to rest time to time.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Smaller :) without the scope... That's not possible 🤣🤣

[@jmikronis7376]

Good detective work! You and I can do this type fixes all day long.

[@DomDEngineer]

Awesome work! Did you ask the customer what was the potential incident leading to this? Impact? Extreme temperature?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

this card came from a data recovery shop that outsourced it to us

[@john.84]

Hi I love this video, Your micro soldering is excellent, You did a great job. Please keep going and make videos like this GOD bless you

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks my friend

[@JKnight89]

Ok, this stuff is amazing! I've NEVER thought this stuff was possible!

[@rdp8545]

Amazing work buddy!..... I'm learning a lot from you!! You are truly an expert at this sort of work.

[@levitated-pit]

woah .... excellent skills with a steady hand

[@chrisvanalstine8136]

The new and improved Jumper Drive! A whole new meaning to the term Jump Drive. (I know it's a micro SD card)

[@hddrecoveryservices]

:)

[@wojciechtechtips1602]

This is why backups are important

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Yes, but ain't nobody got time for that :)

[@techazepro6105]

Guys with important data in a broken SD card would be happy if they lived close by this guy

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Haha, true

[@burritoboyee]

Well compiled video, really did achieve what you set out, straight linear account of what happened and how you figured it out, definitely didn't look as damaged as it clearly was 😬

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Great feedback!

[@wizdude]

Such dedication and such delicate work. This was a great recovery video. Well done and keep up the amazing work that you do :-)

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks David

[@j7ndominica051]

Where did the wires go that were applied in the corner during the initial probing for continuity? That corner is later shown dicolored blue but without wires.

[@HBPowerwall]

Nicely Done!

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks

[@IC9020]

Extraordinary work.. I think this soldering job takes much time. Perfect 🤩

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks 👍

[@kilrahvp]

That guy's data must have been REALLY valuable...

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Always :)

[@dinkc64]

awesome episode, keep up the good work :) The editing is perfect

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thank you so much. Really means a lot to hear feedback like this

[@JAKOB1977]

fascinating to see your work, but you should really mention a rough ballpark of what a given job cost what would a data recovery job like above set the customer back.?

[@yuppiehi]

Not questioning the sanding of the outer plastic, but wouldn't it be safer to use something like acetone or something else non-abrasive to remove the plastic?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Laser would work great but produce fumes and a bit overkill I think. Chemicals are toxic. Scratch pen works great, costs virtually nothing, and almost impossible to damage the card with it.

[@sergejpopov1646]

Вот это ювелир! Просто тараканьи пиписьки, как такое можно паять? Спасибо за работу, всегда очень интересно смотреть и английский понятный. Все слова чётко и ясно слышны.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

С микроскопом и NANE паяльной станции от JBC это возможно. Паять не проблема. Трудней было выявить что паять :)

[@bkrich]

Awesome job, you sir are a master of your craft 👍🏼

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thank you kindly

[@Bartyron]

This is an amazing job. I subscribed to your channel. Very interesting. Thanks for showing!

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks

[@leeheggie7043]

Top repair again so dedicated to your work.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks

[@hightttech]

Video WELL DONE -- felt very continuous, not choppy. If the card was in use, then became non-op one day, which trace failed at that moment? All 16 traces did not fail simultaneously. We know trace repair revived card, so trace failure definitely the problem. Perhaps the process of removing mask to expose traces also damaged them?? Thoughts.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

I do 2-3 cards every day using the same pen. Its safe for traces. Quality of the build and heat. Video does not show it, but once the repair was done the card worked, but it did not work like new (simply card reader and mount would not make it happen).

[@hightttech]

@@hddrecoveryservices: Is that pen good for removing mask? What is it? My perception of PNY is "cheapo" -- does that match your experience? Is PNY more vulnerable to "heat and quality of build" failures, in your experience?

[@mariorossi1633]

I'm always amazed by Your ability but this is astonishing, I've never seen anything like this before

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks Mario!!!

[@cerretjans1040]

Now, with this episode I'm feeling confident enough to... save your number on the contatcs, just in case.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

🤟

[@vincenzodigrande2070]

Wow, did my first repair on a 64gb micro SD today that had just one connection damaged, this one you had was really a horror story.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Yep, this card was fun to work on

[@dennisseuferling815]

I have seen this before on a USB stick. It is likely the traces delaminated (heat?) and broke off. Copper work hardens so it wouldnt take much movement to break them.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

I test each card or monolith not specifically for that reason. One trace can go bad and card stops responding 😃

[@arunsharmadatarecoveryexpe8525]

Great Efforts, Hats off

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks

[@kazimierzwoynski7575]

Each another wire like another card in house of cards :o Did you send this frankenstein sdcard to the customer or do you keep it in a honored place :p? P.S. I think longer videos from time to time are nice and fit 100% right to "the character" of Your channel :)

[@hddrecoveryservices]

I think so too! Thanks for your input

[@rajnish747]

Wow wow buddy, you're a data hero! Nice video! I'll subscribe! 👍

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Haha, thanks dude

[@tylerhoughton6206]

To be honest this is amazing ,I always thought of this media. To be once they don't work your data is toast

[@hddrecoveryservices]

In some cases it would be

[@MrMaxeemum]

Those traces looked fine but obviously weren't, it would have been good to zoom in closer to see where the break was and to also give some idea as to what caused it. One question, would tinning the whole of card have been easier? I would have thought that because the traces looked ok that the break must have been miniscule and tinning the whole card instead of jumpers would have solved it easier. I'm not saying that would have been better as I have never worked on anything that small it's just a genuine question, Thanks.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

You know I tried to tin them, but it don't seem to work

[@AmatorElektronik]

Very nice job. Best from Poland.

[@tavros314]

The skills of this guy! amazing

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thank you!

[@TheSinasteria]

wow that was insane and nice to learn from wana try that myself ,was really inspiring to watch that through and clean with precision work

[@hddrecoveryservices]

I am glad you liked it

[@MagDag_]

Good job! Looking for some course type of lessons how to repair.

[@Txepsiyu]

Somebody wanted that data back very badly.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

With prices for this stuff, usually they do :)

[@cowboyfrankspersonalvideos8869]

Wow. Of course I don't know what you charge but something like this must have been a lot. Those photos must have been important, and obviously the client didn't have a backup.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

This was priced as basic repair. Most of them are relatively easy and quick. This one was rather unusual 😃

[@BuzZ.]

another satisfied customer !

[@hddrecoveryservices]

he sure was :)

[@viktorkreis430]

Hi, do you have experience with Lexar or Huawei nm cards? Should be based on MicroSD. Do they also have hidden solder pads?

[@TheEkoTube]

verry good work... you promised ssd recovery a very long time ago yet i`ve watched each and every single video you uploaded so far and only usb devices and cards and hdds... c`mon...give us some ssds

[@hddrecoveryservices]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpKYhqmgas6Vjas here is one :) I got a NVMe video in the works with PC3K portable that I just got. Soon my friend!

[@TheEkoTube]

@@hddrecoveryservices that is still a USB device... Not much different than a flash drive. I saw that video... About 8 times :)) Anw... I appreciate your work. It made me get in to this business... I'm not as advanced but I saved some drives over time. If I ever end up in canada, you will definitely receive my cv!

[@jordanking6939]

Surgery can be messy, but it gets the job done if the recovery is successful.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

In this case, only surgery like this would work. Traces were rotten before I even got the card. If I had tried to put it to NAND adapter, it would most likely not work without trace repair first.

[@Josh.Straughn]

We can call this Dr. Frankenstein's Monster? Maybe you can have a swear word counter in the corner so we don't have to hear it and demonetize it but we can know "oh ya that was a 12 tabarnak treatment." Great job sir very very impressive !!! :)

[@hddrecoveryservices]

99% of the time I am silent when soldering. I am amazed at Rossman's ability to chitchat while working in the scope. Even when I screw up I am trying to rebound right away. Kinda like a sniper ;)

[@urbanmec993]

great work , really , what kind soldering iron is that?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

JBC NANO station

[@bestbuildpc]

Amazing job. Congratulations! Where could I buy the scratch pen?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

eBay or Amazon

[@snark69]

Amazing work!

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@osergipano6377]

you are a Peaky Blinders! very good, fantastic.

[@Jason-yb8bi]

It's very, very professional.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks

[@obelixer9751]

Interesting stuff!, Did some work on a phone where the digitizer connector was broken off the pcb.. Working on such small items with a microscope is really tiresome.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Its fun

[@awilliams1701]

holy crap that was insane. That really is bizzare it got that messed up.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Since this episode I started to pay more attention to the circuit and testing prior to diving in for NAND protocol access. Really opened up my eyes at potential issues

[@Nitrodr1]

Just Awesome work!

[@bensoncanafranca5776]

How did you uncover the sd card to reveal the copper traces?

[@Zahidulhasan]

I have a 500G HDD which Got 1> Linux ext partitioned when a raspberry pi image burn, 2> then unallocated & formatted to NTFS 3> Now head creating clicking noise. This HDD data can be recovered ?

[@PIKACHU-zn8fx]

No doubt. You are a electronic surgeon

[@hddrecoveryservices]

:)

[@sweetpeaz61]

Oh man...thats amazing work, well done :)

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks a lot!

[@MrZX1206]

Could you have used your multi-leg spider to make the jumpers or is this too tiny?

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Too small for spider

[@aabbAabb-x6t]

If two different wires meet in one area, such as the data wire, the power wire, or the watch, will a short occur or not?

[@charackthe]

There was one Green sector around the middle, what does it mean?

[@EasyOne]

nice i see please insert disk (kingston usb) what's the problem

[@technicmoney1466]

Highly appreciated!!

[@hddrecoveryservices]

Thanks

[@THEPAINOFITALL]

How much would a job like this cost?