Back in August, we received a 64GB Transcend Compact Flash card. Under first assessment, the card was found to have a dead controller. There was no other solution but to remove the chips and use VNR to recover the data.
- After removing the casing of the CF card, we found 4 NAND chips.
- NAND was carefully removed and prepared for the reader.
- NAND reader and the correct cradle is ready for the reading of the chips.
- In VNR, the NAND chips were loaded and data reconstructed.
- Unfortunately, it’s not a complete success. Only half of the data was recovered for an unknown reason. The customer was still happy with what they could get. This data belonged to a TV crew and re-shooting this footage was impossible, thus they were happy with anything that we could salvage.
- As seen in the image here, only every other folder was recovered, these folders should’ve had consecutive numbering, and only every other folder was recovered.
