Topic: overheating micro sd card

[Steve]

My fiance has a ton of photos on her micro sd from her old blackberry she never backed up. That phone was smashed by someone.

The card is in tact but when I stick it in the adapter (via usb or direct to pc) it gets HOT. Instantly so hot I can't touch the thing.

The adapter works with my micro sd cards. I just don't get why a smashed phone could lead to this.

There no way I can retrieve the data is there? Also note the card isn't coming up on the pc before I unplug it.

[KnuckleBuckett]

Guessing that something has failed shorted internal to the card.  I would guess this is a no recovery situation. 

[Rob]

Yeah, I'm with Knuck. Getting too hot to the touch is a fairly good sign that the data has gone to binary heaven. It's spun off the information super-highway. It's been moved to /dev/null. In short, it is no more. It is ex-data.

[jkim]

Rob went all out on those metaphors.  I think that means it's done for.

[ober]

Yeah, I'd say it bought the farm.  Kicked the bucket.  The fat lady has sang.  It won't 'be back'.

[Mike]

Yeah, I'm with Knuck. Getting too hot to the touch is a fairly good sign that the data has gone to binary heaven. It's spun off the information super-highway. It's been moved to \dev\null. In short, it is no more. It is ex-data.

*cough*/dev/null*cough*

[Rob]

Yeah, I'm with Knuck. Getting too hot to the touch is a fairly good sign that the data has gone to binary heaven. It's spun off the information super-highway. It's been moved to \dev\null. In short, it is no more. It is ex-data.

*cough*/dev/null*cough*

fmp. Ta.

[Steve]

Why can't it be like the old days when a freezer and an open slave cable was all you needed....

[KnuckleBuckett]

Well...you could probably repair it....

All you need is an electron microscope and a stapler.

[Rob]

Nah. I bet the magic smoke's escaped.