Micro sd error

Hi I really hope someone can help me. My micro sd card broke a little halfway and now when I put it inside my camera (elph 360) it says memory card locked. Is there any chance of recovery?

r/datarecovery - Micro sd error

Tagged: SD card

SD card

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Saje

Participant

May 26, 2026 at 5:42 am

Forget it and geta new one. This ones gone.

Xaria

Participant

May 20, 2026 at 3:55 am

Good suggestion by Betty.
if you still not sure about it just call around some data recovery companies, better yet, send them your photo, they either gonna refuse to even take it in or will take it in just for you to have to pay diagnostics fee and be told that recovery is not possible

Betty

Participant

May 20, 2026 at 3:53 am

Recovery chances are very low. memory crystal pretty much either runs the length of the card or sits at the end if the card (there are some variations depending on the model), but if you broke a few millimeters or more its pretty much a guarantee you broke said memory crystal too and so there are no data to recover cos you pretty much don’t have anything left that you could recover said data from, here are some links that show exposed crystal on some micro sd cards or how direct chip data recovery is done so you could get some idea about it

Nina Calder

Participant

May 7, 2026 at 5:03 am

Usually no, but the only way to find out is to either xray it or scratch the coating to find the data pads. It’s possible that the data cells are not extending towards the crack. Unfortunately there’s nothing you can DIY, if you keep plugging it in you can risk killing it completely.

I’d recommend sending it to a recovery clinic.