Can a chewed memory card be fixed?

Question

I have a 2 GB memory card that my wittle cute bad putty chewed. Its not totally destroyed, it just has some bite marks in it...but anyways, can I salvage it? please please please tell me yes, because it has my pictures from my trip to norway on it that werent saved on the computer.....

thankyousosomuch

Answer 1

Check the warrenty that came with it, if one came with it. Brands like Kingston have a very long warrenty.. and when they ask what happened you just go I have no idea it doesn't work ;)

Answer 2

Your going to have to get a technician to look at it, certain damages my just be superficial while others may not be.

Answer 3

Did it damage any of the contacts or insides?

If it's punctured inside or the contacts are damaged you're probably out of luck.

There's a chance if you pick up a cheap card reader at the office store you may be able to recover everything, assuming it's only the plastic case that's damaged.  If you do recover the pictures, erase and distroy/dispose of the card afterward -- you don't want to use it again and have it to fail later.

EDIT:

You could always take it to a camera shop, they can probably tell you if it can be recovered for free (just examineing it and putting it in their photo printer machine and seeing if it reads anything) and if you don't want to get a card reader they can burn it all to a CD fairly cheap.