Memory Card Recovery

Attingo is an expert and competent contact concerning the professional data rescue from memory cards and other flash memories like defective USB sticks and damaged solid state drives. With over 24 years of experience in manipulating and modificating NOR flash chips and rescueing data from NAND flash memory cards, Attingo is able to recover the data from memory cards in over 98 % of cases.

Data rescue from memory cards

What we can offer:

Technicians and engineers, specialist department: mircoelectronics

Controller manipulation/modification

Removing and reading out NAND flash memory chips

Reprocessing physical structures

Microscopic soldering operations

Ozilloscopic diagnosis

Profound knowledge about file systems (FAT, exFAT, ext)

Causes:

There are multiple causes that may be responsible for missing data or the malfunction of a memory card. If the memory card isn't recognised anymore or shown as empty, this may have various reasons:

Defective sectors (bad blocks, I/O device error), physical(mechanical damage, firmware error, defective controller, corruptive files, erased or overwritten data, formatted memeory card, water damage, fire damage, only thumbnail visible, data carrier isn't displayed anymore.

We help you after data loss

We provide multiple diagnosis options depending on the urgency of your data rescue case

After the diagnosis is completed you receive a fixed price offer

No hidden costs - Expenses are only incurred if the hard disk data rescue is successful

The recovery of your hard drive will be done by experienced and specially trained engineers

Fast reaction times - in urgent cases, we offer a 24x7 service

In-house research and development in order to keep up with the newest hardware

More than 14.500 spare parts in Vienna, Hamburg and Amsterdam

Contact us - order your diagnosis today.

Memory card: logical errors

Formatted memory card
Data e. g. photos, videos deleted
Data overwritten
File system error
Memory card is empty

Memory card: physical errors

Memory card broken
Memory card (inside camera) fell into the water
Memory card got too hot/burnt
Memory card bent
Dirty contacts

Memory card manufacturers:

ADATA
Apacer
Angelbird
AgfaPhoto
Atomos
Axis
BestMedia Platinum
CnMemory
DeLOCK
Delkin
Duracell
Eye-Fi
Emtec
Ex-Pro
extrememory
Fujifilm
Goodram
G.Skill
Hama
HP
Integral
Intenso
Kingston
Kingmax
Kodak
Lupus
Lexar
Leef Pro
Maxflash
Maxell

MediaRange
Memorex
MemoryStar
Mushkin
Mustang
Nokia
Olympus
Palm
Philips
PNY
Patriot
Panasonic
Poppstar
PQI
Pretec
Samsung
SanDisk
Sony
Silicon Power
Super Talent
Strontium
takeMS
TDK
Transcend
TeamGroup
Toshiba
Verbatim
V7 Videoseven
Xlayer
Xlyne

Classification of memory cards:

CompactFlash (CF)

CompactFlash Type I
CompactFlash Type II
CompactFlash ATA Serial Transfer (CFast) Typ I
CompactFlash ATA Serial Transfer (CFast) Typ II

Memory Stick (MS)

Memory Stick Select
Memory Stick-ROM
Memory Stick PRO
Memory Stick Duo
Memory Stick PRO Duo
Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo
Memory Stick XC Duo
Memory Stick XC-HG
Memory Stick Micro (M2)
Memory Stick HG Micro (M2-HG)
Memory Stick XC Micro (M2-CX)
Memory Stick XC-HG (M2 XC-HG)

Multimedia Card (MMC)

Multimedia Card Reduced Size (RS-MMC)
Multimedia Card mobile (MMCmobile)
Multimedia Card micro (MMCmicro)

Secure Digital Memory Card (SD)

Secure Digital High Capicity (SDHC/SDHC I, UHS-I)
Secure Digital Extended Capicity (SDXC/ SDXC I, UHS-I)
mini SD
miniSDHC
microSD
microSDHC
microSDXC
TransFlash/T-Flash

Smart Media (SM)

alternativ: Solid State Floppy Disc Card (SSFDC)

xD-Picture Card (xD)

Smart Media successor

XQD

Nikon D4
Nikon D4s
Nikon D5
Nikon D850
Nikon D500
Sony FDR-AX1

CFexpress

This new memory card standard is currently in the development phase, accordng to the CFA. As soon as it is ready for the market, Attingo will analyse it and develop data rescue methods.

Data rescue from monolith memories

Monolithic memory media provide a high information density and take up a relatively small space. Compared to campact flash memories the controller, the memory chips and other parts are bundled up in only one component. Aggregatively more and more manufacturers use proprietary algorithms for encryption.

The standardised and common special techniques are not working here. With monlith memories you need more specifical and elaborate methods as well as more work and time. Stereo microscopy, oszilloscopy and other technical procedures are indispensable in such a scenario. Monolith chips don't give away information about circiutry andconductor tracks, so we have to identify them through heuristic analysis.

Electronical components are not made for eternity - that's a fact. Overvoltage, wear and tear and quality defects (production fault) may damage every single component of a memory card, which is especially problematic with monolith memories.

A data rescue from a monolith memory card isn't impossible, but the effort may be exorbitantly high, so that the cost-benefit calculation doesn't add up for the customer. Unfortunately there are also data carriers, which don't qualify for a data rescue anymore due to the massive damage.

Medias

Storage

Systems

Hardware