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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2024
- Data recovery from a dead MicroSD card using PC-3000 Flash and Spider Board
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The music at the beginning of the video is selected as if the information on the dead SD card is necessary to save the world.
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It could be.. to solve a serious crime case, when mobile is in broken in irretrievable condition.
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Pictures of inside Area 51. 🤣
Who knows 😂😂😂
Plottwist: the Card Reader is broken :D
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That reminds me of that day at work we had to re-crimp lots of UTP patch cables over and over again just to realize that the tester was broken.
@@eduardorobledo3403😂
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Thanks for sharing, I had no idea that such specialized equipment existed. I'm actually surprised that anyone would go to such great lengths to make that hardware and software. It must take a lot of successful recoveries to make up for the cost of the setup, and some in-depth knowledge of SD cards to connect and configure the right pads.
I would imagine that the police or security services would use this technology!
These are all special services and intelligence unit grade items coming out now, these were definitely developed along with the OEMs to crack down crime or for spying purpose 😊
Be surprised how many people don't backup. Some wanna save a few pennies. Some just never came to the idea.
It is only when the data is lost, suddenly the data becomes super important.
I started backup when I accidentally formatted and lost all photos from a family trip. Not unreplaceable, but sure very frustrating. Since then I have a NAS and auto backup everything.
Doesn't have to be Synology or other prebuilt products. DIY NAS is cheap and works great.
@@yren3386 I deleted some Fotos but i could restore them. Today I back up everything on 3 hard drives from 3 manufacturers 😅
I always wondered how it was possible to recover data from an SD card. Being in IT for 40+ years, my experience was mostly with hard drives. It's sad the number of people who think they've last everything because their computer won't boot. It was great watching the process. Thanks for posting it.
No kidding, the amount of computers I have acquired with VERY VALUABLE INFORMATION on them. That if it fell into the wrong hands, those persons lives would have been ruined.... I was after the equipment, not the information... Formatted with dban, moved on to another day.... Lol
you have to work the problem from the ground up, double check each system twice and rule nothing out. it could be the motherboard is bad, bad stick of ram, some wire is not plugged in who knows. by checking everything in detail and validating what systems are working and what is left to be checked you wont really know. i like to pull drives out of one computer and plug them into another so i can see is it the software or the hardware. the hardware itself does not matter, the most important part is the data. i find its rare for a drive to go bad, more often its been motherboards, gpu, or off brand ram sticks.
as for file recovery on ssd, hard drives - if the device is not burned, has physical damage (scratches, broken platters, destroyed nand memory) or encryption(aes256, camelia, twofish - basically symmetric block ciphers with 256 bits without access to backup headers or keys) then recovery is impossible.
so it just makes the case to 3 2 1 data backup rule important data. people need to know about using LTE tape for data storage and archive gold bluerays are a cheaper option.
I need mines fixed. But I don’t have weird stuff on mines 😂
I just need my music back. So I can make a living djing
Most sd card died because the controller went bad. Those test pads directly connect to the nand. Data can be extracted from raw signals from the nand.
That being said, there also are a lot of cards that can't be recovered or simply lost. I can emphasize more the importance of backup. Sd cards are cheap, hard drives are cheap, online storages are cheap. Every media is cheap when compared to the price of data recovery service. If the data has any importance to you, backup backup backup.
If you are concerned about privacy, encrypt. AES or any modern properly implemented encryption algorithms are not invincible, but good enough for most people. Nobody is gonna spend a million dollar super computer on your personal data.
@@yren3386 aes256 has a key length of nearly the amount of atoms in the known universe. aes is computationally secure in that we have known algorithms that can break it (grover) even with a quadratic speed up it would take trillions of years assuming you started with a key length of 256 and reduced the effectiveness to 128. aes has no known flaws, if you could write or use something that is perfect and invincible aes is the best example. aes is for todays standards is old but its time tested and proven secure, more key length does not improve security but can actually weaken it. classical symmetric encryption is shown to be quantum resistant so it will still have a future use.
this is practically the technology equivalent of surgery on a grape
Imagine if we didnt have card readers and we all had to do this everytime we wanted to record data LOL
What's even crazier is heart surgeons doing surgery on new born babies, who's hearts are actually as small as a grape!
Wow. So THAT'S WHY data recovery is so expensive. Very clever!
It's always expensive, no matter if it's easy or not. Thats just like the market works.
If someone is desperate enough to call a data recovery expert, he will often pay a lot of money.
@@TheRailroad99How much on average to recover data from these SD?
@@AnupomAG I have no idea (not in the data recovery business myself) but prepare to spend at least 500 - 1000 dollars I would say. Might even be more expensive
@@TheRailroad99 I mean judging by what this guy did here I wouldn't say it's anything less.
I've something to recover data . I wonder if this can recover from old phone rom.
@@AnupomAG pretty sure the answer is yes. At least the PC-3000 system. The electrical interface and communication protocol is very similar for phone ROM (eMMC). It's typically delivered in 153 - Ball BGA chips.
However from those only about 15 are really needed.
So I guess the procedure would be to remove (desolder) the chip, clean the contacts and use this tool (or resolder it to an adapter PCB).
However this will only work for old phones (up to ~ 2017) starting with that, these are encrypted, and I'm not sure if it's possible to decrypt the data without the functioning mother board).
I have once lost 64G of data due to a failed android downgrade and was not able to restore the data (including command line / root tools on the phone).
I still have an image and partition table dump of that phone, maybe one day the encryption will get bypassed and I can restore the data)
This was poetry in motion watching you do an EMG on this card and figuring out what nerve to pinch to fix the issue at hand. Well done
13:05 he says “now the hard part”… man I thought it couldn’t get harder hahaha
i was thinking the same, like the steps before were easy :D
What exacly was he doing?
It's funny how UA-cam's algorithm works... I worked on something similar 25 years ago... I made decoders, data recovery from hard drives, data recovery from servers, clones... I hacked programs, I even got into rather special servers... 25 years and the tools and technology are still the same...
After a couple of years I decided to go back to college and finish my degree... now I'm dedicated to medicine and I haven't touched a computer the same way since... at work I always have to play dumb when a computer breaks...
It reminded me a lot of my youth... thanks
IT WAS NECESSARY TO LEAVE THE INTEREST IN THIS AS A HOBBY
Man you gained my trust, I did watch the whole thing on 2x, it still was time consuming, hats off to you dude
I have no clue about data recovery so this was cool to watch
It's not that difficult though, you just have to go through the data framework , find the frame loops one by one by eliminating the node points and hmm I'm just blabbèring lol, even I have no idea.
100% the world need you bro
@Faeii
*Yes...!!!*
_Protect this man at all costs...!_
*_A World Treasure!_*
What about data privacy
I must say, I like your masking method. It nicely and un-reversibly fills in the masked area without using pixels from it.
Im glad I'm not epileptic, that intro flashing was driivng me crazy
Acupuncture session.
For Johnny 5
And this is why you do routine backups of your data on multiple data sources, folks.
What kind of failure makes it that you can directly probe the pads for the contents of the main memory, but you can't access the card through it's standard contacts?
Presumably a failure in the controller chip rather than in a flash memory chip.
From what I understand, only certain sectors or pages of the chip are actually bad or damaged. Going through the regular contacts likely prevents access ti all sectors to prevent further damage. Going through the debug pads allows the software to force it to attempt to read each sector
I think it could be either one yeah. memory cards can do strange things when they go bad. sometimes you can coax them into partially-working with a regular reader but this bypasses those shenanigans assuming the skills & tools to do what is shown
Could be a bad trace going to the the pads a reader uses
Where is the exact plan and the list of the tools?
Holy shit at first I was like "ok it looks hard but maybe with the right tools I could be able to recover data too" but then the mf hacked into the matrix lmao this is insane, good job, no wonder this stuff is expensive.
It's crazy hard
Which country ??
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The entire video just shows how professional you are at handling problems like this. It's insane. I just gave up at everything beyond HDD 😂
this is one of the coolest things ive ever seen. my mind is blown.
@@breezyb Thanks!
That's why it so hard to destroy data on solid state. You can even extract from blasted fragments.
For a microsd it’s pretty easy actually. 30 seconds in a microwave will do it.
@@DataScienceDIYnah just throw it in a smelter with a hand full more😊 get a dob of gold.
Not really, the SD card was physically OK here. If the flash chip had even a single crack, recovery would be nigh impossible.
Or just flush it down the toilet
@@tonirobinson6284 fun fact: junk electronics have more gold density than some gold ores
Great work, successfully recovered micro sd.
@@user-dw6fj1py1o Thanks😉
@@developakrwas does that cost to have done?
@@developakrplease recover my sd card data only just photos please.. i will pay as much i can. Please my whole childhood is in there please
@@developakrwonder if you could use this to get around encrypted flash drives???😂
How contact you sir @@developakr
Absolute wizardry. I consider myself knowledgeable in a lot of things but computer science goes WAY over my head.
My mind can't even comprehend what just happened in this video. Very well done sir. Amazing job.
I can't get over the programming of all that stuff. Does my head in.
Глупый настолько?😅
Real Plot Twist... NOTHING HAPPENED 😂😂😂 we watched a VHS tape when he said he was done! 😂
Which country ??
That was really interesting. Thanks for showing some of the tools
@@KerboOnYT 😎👍
Thanks for giving us a glimpse of your work!
Love this.
No talking, just showing, nice music.
Quality content. Instant sub!!
i really really enjoyed this video, couldn't wait to see the end but also needed to see the whole process, people doing cinema should try some of this by these days.
@@VivianaVillanuevaPicolini Thanks🤗
And I thought I was a recovery expert...YIKES!! That is truly next level to even design that spider deal...I thought it was going to be somebody making a clock out of an old microSD card....LOL.
Yes i do totally understand everything you did in this video
@@alfahriable can you make us understand? You can make a reaction video add subtitles for each action.
i just dont un destant wha he did in tha hard part
This is by far the most impressive tech feat I’ve seen on UA-cam, what the actual fuck
Wtf
You should explain how that can even works
I'll never understand how a terabyte of data can be stored on a hard drive let alone a mini SD.🤯 So I'm convinced it's alien technology. Also to protect this secret tech there is an alien satellite system in place to broadcast a brain scrabbling signal all over the world. Itkeeps people from questioning just how the hell it works.🧐 I guess the signal doesn't work on my totally burnt out mind so I can question it.🤪
I have lost 3 hard drives to date. I keep them stored in a dark place, free from shocks and temperature fluctuations, in the hope of one day trying to recover their data. It's been two decades of waiting.
Is this the real way to recover data, seeing it for first time just amazing😮😮 video very informative❤❤
Be consistent with ur video
great job , but always.....we need that fcking pc3000
@@Djazeiry Thanks😉
Can you imagine how much more data recovery would happen if pc3000 wasn't thirty freakin grand. I get that they gotta make their money but that price tag just blows most data recovery dreams out of the water.
@@shadowwolf225 AceLab products are great but they are still chanrging way too much plus when you add how much time and effort most data recovery jobs require, it is no wonder why most cannot afford it. My advice, if you are one of these people, have multiple backups of your most vital data!
@@shadowwolf22530.000 usd ?
@@shadowwolf225 yes for real , just like my case i live on a third world country it's at least a year of salary , and the service you provide most be balanced for the market you're in , so in my case it's really impossible to do that.
I did not understand what was actually broken? Why the first attempt to read the card ID did not succeed, what was changed the second time? This is a very nice video, but the author did not explain what was the root problem and why directly accessing the board solved it?
Good points. I suspect the card was faulty because a trace had failed.
Card layout differs from manufacturers and so connections may not always be in same places.
Different chip manufacturers also vary layouts.
I had the same question, like how on eart you would know, what testpads are under the plastics and which of them is doing what
@@szpl research. That info is out there.
I would assume, that the controller that's on the memory card stopped working. SD card is a multi-chip package: controller+one or more NAND memory chips.
Impressive work, well done! I'm curious - what is your general recovery rate on these? Obviously it's variable, but is it like 1 out of every 10 is recoverable like this?
This is the most cyberpunk thing i've seen in a while
Excellent bro. Very good work
"Sir we successfully recovered your data. Here is a 252x252 jpg of JC Denton. That will be $850"
Bru, the details of how this was done was so amazing, but the music was so EVERYTHING!
Please be my new DJ! ♥
The fact that Sherrif Lamb knows who Yanni is just made my day! But yes music alters and affects your mood when driving
What's the cost for this service? Have an SD card with Dad's photos on it. He crossed over during covid😢 Thanks 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
If your card is in good condition then you don't need to go this way.
Wow... This really is interesting stuff.. awsm content brother.. 15:17
This is amazing! Your video makes me want to get into this line of work.
That's really great that you can get those photos for the person
The modern equivalent to being a wizard in a tower tinkering with archane devices
the 2nd greatest technician that has ever lived
Bringus?
Don't you mean the 3rd..
ah, i see, you're a man of culture aswell
The greatest technician* data recovery is more impressive that whatever that guy was doing
Those green pixels are the best feeling :)
Can you show it again with more details? How do you know where to put a wire and how to map it ?
You just earned a subscriber. Respect!!!
You are very pro mate, I have a damaged card but I won't be able to fix it like you do
I wonder what kind of weird, scary, or raunchy stuff these repair guys see when someone hands them a broken memory card or computer to fix. 🤔
remarkable, thank you so much for sharing this
Algorithm: "He'll watch anything at this point."
For the initial fibreglass brush part, a piece of double sided tape makes life a lot easier
That spider board is really dope.
I know you make 6 figures a year easily nice work.
Waaw, Great work. In my understanding common man can't able to exploit!
The right tool for the right job.
Thank you for what you do.
I like the rig. Looks extreme but if someone wants something saving enough it's worth it 👍
This video should have 1 trillion views
Amazing. Probably get this a lot but I don't see it on the channel page... do you do this type of work, do you have a website? Or is it mostly for training/demonstrations? It can be hard to tell with so many types of tech channels 😅
Bro tried to Read his mind with Acupuncture on a Corpse! 😂😂
That was fascinating! It's pretty wild how you were able to perform a number of functions to the dumped data post-ECC in order to restore proper bits and order. It seems you had a number of different options where *only one permutation* would be correct and yield the files.
Were you able to intuit which series of logic functions would properly restore the data solely from experience? Or could you look at the card itself and generally have an idea off the bat?
I am no beguines,, but what you did amazes me. I want to learn how to do the recovery of memory cards. I am planning to retire, and open a shop in Rio de Janeiro to offer this type of service among other more common repairs. Does the spider board PC3000 for Flash come with instructions?
Thanks s
Dr. T, soon to be retired MD,PhD.
Beautiful
Thank you! Cheers!
@@developakrSir You are more than any PhD in electronics. Hats off to you! I am from India, want to learn this if you can guide me. Which books, websites I can refer? How much is the cost of hardware and software set up involved? Any way to connect with you? Email, what's app, telegram?
@@NavinSphysics the PC3000 hardware alone is $30.000.
Just forget it.
What an amazing work bro, and great video! One thing, have you ever tried doing this with microphones instead of music as an ASMR video? It would be absolutely brilliant. Hope you try it sometime 😁🙏🏻
My my god this way harder than I thought 😮
I should do more research on this.
Can you recover data from old Android phone's rom?
awesome work, how do you learn this kind of skill?
Lots of time on the bench.
Thank you for sharing. I have some questions:
A) why do the test pads and tracks on the card have such an 'organic' shape, instead of looking like a 'normal' PCB?
B) does the flash reader auto-detect which pin is hooked up to what part of the card/chip? Or how did you know which test pad corresponds to what?
The "organic" shapes you observed on the test pads and tracks of a microSD card likely have a functional purpose tied to the manufacturing process and electrical performance:
Manufacturing Constraints: MicroSD cards are extremely compact and require precise, highly miniaturized designs. The organic curves can help optimize the limited space for routing connections between different layers of the card, avoiding sharp turns that may not fit as easily into the tight, crowded space.
Signal Integrity: Curved, rather than sharp, angular tracks can reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) and improve signal integrity. Smooth curves lead to less abrupt changes in the path of electrical signals, reducing the risk of signal reflection or interference that could arise from high-frequency currents in sharp angles.
Reduced Stress Concentration: In high-density PCBs like those inside microSD cards, sharp corners in tracks can lead to mechanical stress concentrations during production or operation. Organic shapes help distribute mechanical stresses more evenly, which improves the card’s durability, particularly in thin and delicate layers.
Fabrication Processes: MicroSD cards are often built using specialized techniques such as laser drilling or deposition, and the processes can naturally result in smoother, organic lines. This is different from larger PCBs, where subtractive methods (like etching) are commonly used, often resulting in more angular designs.
These organic shapes are not just aesthetic but also function to optimize the card's performance, durability, and manufacturing process.
Woah! *never* seen hacking done like that before! Didn't even know such tools existed.
Bro you're great I hope I could learn this it's very necessary 👏👏
You just did
Everybody must watch what a talent
On another level 😮
So basically police can recover data from a broken solid state drive 😅
@@zat-1-fury yes! 😉
You close the comments on your channel?
Anyway, came to comment... does anyone know why these chips just randomly fail?
I've had too many sd chips fail and would love to know, how and why they just randomly stop functioning.
Dozens to hundreds of reasons, I'd reckon a guess. Your pads could get dirty and wear out ( easiest possible fix), you could have flexed the card too much and destroyed the internal components, you could have corrupted the internal data by putting it into a shitty device, you could be buying a shitty brand that has poor quality/code behind it, temperature/voltage/current could have destroyed internal components, etc.
I'm assuming you think it's small so therefore it's uncomplicated, but you're asking the equivalent of "why doesn't my car move anymore?" Which could be hundreds of reasons including "you didn't fill up your tires", "your spark plugs wore out", or "you crashed into a wall and half the car is missing"
@@Caffeine_Addict_2020 All that plus the fact that all flash memory has a limited number of write/erase cycles before it wears out and just doesn't remember any more.
Most commonly it seems they just wear out, overheat, or get physically damaged. If the damage is severe enough there's no way to get the data... but if the actual flash chip survived this type of recovery may be possible; just gotta find an expert like in the video... and have enough money! 😅
@@Caffeine_Addict_2020very well said, but . . . you forgot to mention to obvious one many people do - insert upside down so nothing contacts. This is the same as " my car was running when I turned it off. Now it won't start" - not enough fuel to prime pump - your out of gas dumbshit
@@BrianG61UK I had forgotten that, thank you.
But at thst point it won't overwrite, fine, but why can't the existing data be read?
Super cool. How much does recovery of sd card contents cost?
😮 that was interesting to watch you are a genius.
Yeah, so the spider little legs is the easiest part. Got it. So it's not actually overpriced after all
ghost in the shell music would go hard here.
Wow Micro SD card Acupuncture !
Crazy that you have a disclaimer at the beginning.
why?...
And that's why I triple backup everything.
Skill right there
Напоминает работу археолога.
А после - полёт в космос. ))
Hard work good work 👍
@@trendingprocess7544 Thanks!
Don't they have CARD READERS FOR THAT 😂
... he's just hooked on the chemicals 🙄 😏
Wow never thought it was like *THIS*
I watched this only to remind myself to never rely on anything similar. Just talking to myself: set up some proper backup strategy!!!
Great work 👏🏽
Inmagine if an old man comes and ask for u to recover this data from an sd card they have. They paid only just enough. When ur done with the work you feel just defeated even if you were paid. Because the old man said 'now. I can finally play Among Us again'
Hueston we’ve had a problem : CP DETECTED
Very cool. Oh boy, the software has a lot of typos lol
Thank you, how much does it cost to recover data like this? Does that data come back from the pilot in that way? How is the security of that data? If possible, give an answer, I am from Sri Lanka
To fix any micro sd card, first format it. If you can't, try with a Symbian phone. Then format again with any android. Now the card can store data, but may delete. You have to copy large files, youtube videos from the base memory to the card r withn the card, and from the card to the phone memory. You'll set up your card's default write and read speed, coud be 13, 15 , 19 mb/s. Now you won't get your data deleted.
When you play Rally Fury and upgrade your best cars, your card's Physx will turn on. XC A1 is violent and ultra realistic, gamers must see that.
All that for grandma’s secret chocolate chip cookie recipe!!! Thank God for that!!
Thanks ,but the flashing opening might make some people feel unwell
PC-3000 There was an alarm panel from DSC that was named just like that.