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    [Help] Memory Stick Pro Duo Stuck in Laptop

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by lazulilight, Feb 14, 2010.

  1. lazulilight

    lazulilight Newbie

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    I have an LG P300. It's supposed to have a 5-in-1 memory card reader that takes Memory Stick Pro Duo, but I can tell you right now that it doesn't. I have a 4 GB SanDisk Memory Stick Pro Duo stuck in there right now.

    I have tried:
    tweezers
    using a broken bobby pin as tweezers
    super glue on-a-stick and letting it dry
    tape on a paperclip
    Paperclips
    Shaking
    Wiggling it back and forth
    LG Customer Support - who were unavailable

    Nothing works. I can't get anything on top of the card to try to pull it out because it's such a tight squeeze.
     
    lazulilight, Feb 14, 2010
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  2. Padmé

    Padmé NBR Super Pink Princess

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    Time to take the machine apart to get to the card reader. Or an external card reader.
     
    Padmé, Feb 14, 2010
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  3. InfectedSonic

    InfectedSonic Notebook Evangelist

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    if you cant get anything in there to grab the card then you really have no choice but to take it apart. also your laptop does not have a memory stick pro duo reader it has a memory stick pro reader. the cards are extremely close on the pin side but the cards physical sizes are different. you would need a mem stick pro duo to memstick pro adapter.

    i had some one come to me with a pro duo card stuck in an sd slot before and i got it out with tweezers so i dunno how that cant work but if that port is really that tight of a fit then hopefully the metal shield on the port has holes in it so you can push it out when you take it apart.
     
    InfectedSonic, Feb 14, 2010
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