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The casebook. Closed jobs, described exactly as they ran.

Approval governs all of it. Nothing is published until the customer has been through the recovered material and told us to go ahead, and at that point every identifying detail comes out: the person, the firm, the town, the serial numbers. Each entry then points to the page dealing with that class of fault, for anyone wanting method rather than narrative. The entries below are illustrative examples written to show the shape a casebook entry takes; they are marked as such and will be replaced by genuine closed jobs as they are approved for publication.

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UK · SDC-2026-0701JOB LOGGED ✓

A wedding photographer's SanDisk Extreme PRO 128GB SDXC that showed a card error during the reception, then offered a format on every computer in the house

Nobody formatted it. The card was imaged whole on the bench; the exFAT allocation bitmap and part of the root directory had been torn when the camera's battery died mid-burst. The directory was rebuilt on the image, the last burst of RAW files carved by signature where the entries were gone, and every file opened before it went on the list.

1,942 of 1,944 RAW files recovered3 days here, and back by post
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UK · SDC-2026-0702JOB LOGGED ✓

A SanDisk Extreme 256GB microSD from a drone that came down hard on a hillside, not detected in any reader afterwards, carrying a day's survey footage that had not been copied

No reader saw it. The coating was removed and the test pads mapped; the raw flash was read through a needle adapter, the scrambling and error correction solved, and a virtual card assembled from the dump. The exFAT volume mounted from it and the footage was copied out, with the last clip rebuilt from a reference.

97% of the footage recovered8 days here, and back by post
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UK · SDC-2026-0713JOB LOGGED ✓

A Sony a7 IV's 128GB SDXC card that Windows asked to format on three different laptops after the camera had switched off mid-burst with a low battery, carrying a christening

Nobody pressed Format. The card was imaged whole and its exFAT allocation bitmap found torn where the camera had been writing. The bitmap and the directory were rebuilt on the image, the last burst of ARW files carved by signature and dated from their own metadata, and every frame opened.

100% of the frames recovered2 days here, and back by post
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UK · SDC-2026-0715JOB LOGGED ✓

A Samsung EVO Plus 64GB from a dashcam that had asked to be formatted after three years in a windscreen, formatted by the owner on a laptop, and refused with Windows was unable to complete the format

The card had locked itself read-only; the format had failed on its first write and left the exFAT volume as it was. It was imaged in short passes with the power cycled between them, the volume mounted from the image, and every clip inside the loop copied out, including the one the owner needed.

100% of the loop recovered3 days here, and back by post
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UK · SDC-2026-0717JOB LOGGED ✓

A SanDisk Extreme 128GB microSD from a GoPro that showed 30.6MB in Disk Management after the camera reported an error, with a fortnight's climbing footage on it

The controller had lost its translation table and fallen back to its firmware area. The flash was read through the test pads with a needle adapter, the dump descrambled, the table rebuilt in software, and the exFAT volume mounted from the virtual card. The footage was copied out and the last clip rebuilt from a reference.

98% of the footage recovered9 days here, and back by post
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UK · SDC-2026-0719JOB LOGGED ✓

A Samsung Galaxy Tab A's 128GB card that the tablet declared unsupported after a system update, carrying a grandmother's photographs of every grandchild

The card was portable storage with an exFAT volume the tablet's updated system had refused to mount; its root directory had been damaged when the tablet crashed during the update. The card was imaged, the directory rebuilt on the image, and the DCIM tree copied out whole; every photograph opened.

100% of the photographs recovered2 days here, and back by post
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UK · SDC-2026-0721JOB LOGGED ✓

A GoPro HERO 12's 512GB card bought online under a SanDisk Extreme label, which showed SD ERR two days into a cycling tour and turned out to have thirty-two gigabytes of flash inside it

The card identified at 512GB and failed every write past the thirty-second gigabyte. The real flash was imaged, the exFAT volume rebuilt on the image for the region that existed, and the clips recovered from it. Everything the camera had written past the real flash had never been stored, and the owner was told so with the first days' footage in hand.

2 days of 7 recovered: everything the card really held3 days here, and back by post
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UK · SDC-2026-0722JOB LOGGED ✓

A Switch Lite's 256GB card throwing 2016-0247 on every boot after the console lost power during a game update, with four years of a teenager's captures in the album

A computer offered to format the card too, so it came here. It was imaged; the exFAT root directory had been torn during the interrupted update. The volume was rebuilt on the image, the Album folder copied out whole with every capture opened, and the card returned with a note that the games would download again.

100% of the album recovered2 days here, and back by post
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UK · SDC-2026-0724JOB LOGGED ✓

A 64GB microSD that went through a washing machine and a tumble dryer in a jacket pocket, then stopped being seen by the phone it came from, with two years of a toddler's photographs that had never left it

The card had dried with a film of minerals and detergent across its contacts and had shorted the first time the phone powered it afterwards. It was cleaned with the right solvents under magnification, dried, and read on the bench's imager at full speed; the exFAT volume was intact and every photograph opened.

100% of the photographs recovered2 days here, and back by post
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UK · SDC-2026-0711JOB LOGGED ✓

A SanDisk Ultra Fit 128GB, a monolith the size of a fingernail, snapped off in a laptop port in a library with a dissertation and three years of its research on it

The stick's connector had sheared and taken two pads with it. The monolith was read through its remaining test pads with a needle adapter, the raw flash descrambled and the drive rebuilt in software, and the exFAT volume mounted from the virtual image. The dissertation opened, with its history of drafts.

100% of the files recovered7 days here, and back by post
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UK · SDC-2026-0725JOB LOGGED ✓

A SanDisk Extreme PRO 256GB microSD from a DJI Air 3, which showed 0 bytes in every reader after the drone's battery was pulled mid-write, with a surveyor's week of roof inspections on it

The controller had lost its translation table and presented nothing. The pads were mapped for that generation of SanDisk monolith and the raw flash read through a needle adapter; the dump was descrambled, the cache region merged into the main image, and the table rebuilt in software. The exFAT volume mounted and every clip was copied out.

99% of the week recovered8 days here, and back by post
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UK · SDC-2026-0734JOB LOGGED ✓

A ProGrade Cobalt 325GB CFexpress Type B from a Nikon Z9 that halted in a long 8K take on a hot day and would not be recognised by the body afterwards, with a documentary interview on it

The card had halted on its thermal limit and its controller had not come back cleanly. On the bench it answered in its firmware mode and was imaged in full; the exFAT volume read from the image and every clip opened, with the interview clip rebuilt from a reference clip from the same body.

100% of the clips recovered6 days here, and back by post
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