File recovery for shattered tablet

[ladyrogue79]

Is there anyway to recover files from a dead tablet? The hard drive looks to be still intact, but the rest of the tablet is completely broken. Thanks!

 

[Eaton Scrapple]

I've never been inside a Nexus but I'm willing to bet that, if the "hard drive" can be unplugged, there is a USB adapter for it. There's only so many standard kinds of plugs for solid state drives. You might also be able to fix up a Raspberry Pi breadboard to recover the files.

 

[Eaton Scrapple]

Oh wait, the disk is probably encrypted. Perhaps the device still boots? Even if the screen is messed up? Maybe it will still attach as a USB device to a PC. LOL aren't you thankful for all the security baked into this thing? If they wanted you to be able to get your data off a hard drive physically removed from the tablet, there would be a way to do so, I guess.

 

[ladyrogue79]

Now when I say "dead", I mean it's been broken in half. It's not just the screen that's broken.

 

[YAYTech]

There isn't a hard drive, there is flash memory on a circuit board. File recovery would most easily be done by installing the board in a working identical model tablet.

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