Important safety tip.
Jul. 27th, 2004 03:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearNever, Never, Never stick any memory stick, SD card, MMC card, whatever, ANYTHING except a read-only (and fully backed up) CDROM into one of those "photo kiosks" at Kinkos or Costco or any photo shop. Never!
The Sony kiosk @ the Kinkos in Sterling utterly destroyed my SD card (its unreadable by every device I have access to, including using a sandisk recovery tool). That card had my ONLY copies of every single picture I took of the Pacific NW tour. They're all GONE.
The only chance I have is to actually mail the card to the people who built the recovery software, because they may have better drivers and card readers that might be able to see through the damage. That will cost me $75 if successful, or $10 if not.
Naturally, I'll bill that to Sony, along with the replacement card costs.
Of course, I'll charge Sony the $80 best buy price, but buy the card @ costco for $50. I ain't THAT crazy...
*sigh*
The Sony kiosk @ the Kinkos in Sterling utterly destroyed my SD card (its unreadable by every device I have access to, including using a sandisk recovery tool). That card had my ONLY copies of every single picture I took of the Pacific NW tour. They're all GONE.
The only chance I have is to actually mail the card to the people who built the recovery software, because they may have better drivers and card readers that might be able to see through the damage. That will cost me $75 if successful, or $10 if not.
Naturally, I'll bill that to Sony, along with the replacement card costs.
Of course, I'll charge Sony the $80 best buy price, but buy the card @ costco for $50. I ain't THAT crazy...
*sigh*
