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DaveC426913
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- My computer tries to scan the chip but never finishes. Looking for options to recover data
My boy gave me his MicroSD (Kingston 16Gb Class 4) phone chip to see if I can recover the data. His phone apparently told him it was corrupt. He tried it in a new phone and apparently it "sort of" worked. Until an update came along. I'm not sure if this is two distinct issues (the corruption them the switch to a new phone) but it seems they are independent.
Anyway, when I pop the chip into my laptop it will not do anything until Win 10 has essentially read the entire chip. By this I mean the address bar at the top of Explorer becomes a green progress bar. Presumably, it is scanning the memory, though it gives no explicit indication that it is doing so.
It won't even show me the context menu when I right-click on the icon. The icon is inscrutable.
The progress bar never finishes. It goes green all the way over to the right of the bar and then just sits there forever. It never goes further and it never gives up and provides an error.
Short of physically sending it to a Data Recovery Service (which will cost some fraction of a grand and makes no guarantees), is there anything I might do to encourage to give up its secrets?
Anyway, when I pop the chip into my laptop it will not do anything until Win 10 has essentially read the entire chip. By this I mean the address bar at the top of Explorer becomes a green progress bar. Presumably, it is scanning the memory, though it gives no explicit indication that it is doing so.
It won't even show me the context menu when I right-click on the icon. The icon is inscrutable.
The progress bar never finishes. It goes green all the way over to the right of the bar and then just sits there forever. It never goes further and it never gives up and provides an error.
Short of physically sending it to a Data Recovery Service (which will cost some fraction of a grand and makes no guarantees), is there anything I might do to encourage to give up its secrets?