Laptop eMMC Data Recovery on a Budget - Andy's Boring Job

How to recover data from the eMMC chip on a Laptop/Tablet/Smartphone without desoldering it or spending hundreds of pounds on professional data recovery services. In fact the whole thing cost me less than a fiver.

The Boardview software can be found here - https://github.com/OpenBoardView/OpenBoardView/releases

Big thanks to exploitee.rs who gave some great tips in this presentation - https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/wednesday/us-17-Etemadieh-Hacking-Hardware-With-A-$10-SD-Card-Reader.pdf

You'll notice that the SD card reader in the final shot is different to the cheap one I soldered on. This is because I couldn't get the cheap one to work at first, but this was because of the RST pin I mentioned earlier. The SD card reader I ended up using was this one, as recommended by exploitee.rs - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Transcend-MicroSD-USB-Card-Reader/dp/B009D79VH4