Need help with a smartmedia card

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My daughter screwed up my smartmedia card and I had some vacation pictures on it. Is there any way to recover them? It doesn't look really bad, she just put a couple of teeth marks on it. Any suggestions from anyone?
 
Does the camera recognize it? Depending on the importance of the files you could buy a cheap reader, attach wires to the card and the reader(using the internal connectors that normally contact the metal areas of the card) and then hopefully transfer the photos. Smartmedia is fairly fragile so it's possible it was damaged from the pressure of the teeth. I was able to use this method once when a card had a damaged contact area. I soldered wires from the reader to the card to get the photos, I never tried to remove the wires and repair the reader however, wasn't worth the 6 bucks I spent on it. YMMV
 
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Does the camera recognize it? Depending on the importance of the files you could buy a cheap reader, attach wires to the card and the reader(using the internal connectors that normally contact the metal areas of the card) and then hopefully transfer the photos. Smartmedia is fairly fragile so it's possible it was damaged from the pressure of the teeth. I was able to use this method once when a card had a damaged contact area. I soldered wires from the reader to the card to get the photos, I never tried to remove the wires and repair the reader however, wasn't worth the 6 bucks I spent on it. YMMV
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No, the camera doesn't recognize it. The pictures on there aren't priceless, but they were some very nice ones from our vacation. How would I know which wires to solder where? Would I just open the card reader and match up the media card to it and just solder them to the respective contacts? It looks like I'll probably need a new card anyway so I'm not worried about messing it up anymore.
 
That is how I did it, although the more I think about it the more I think the internal circuts of the card are probably damaged, best of luck to you.
 
slash said:
That is how I did it, although the more I think about it the more I think the internal circuts of the card are probably damaged, best of luck to you.
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That's what I'm afraid of. Well, not sure if I want to bother trying it. Thanks anyway for the info.
 
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