recovering corrupt digital film images

[Nathan Lim]

When I first ran across the corruption on the card, I had not yet written or
deleted any files/images using the computer. The card was working well
before the corruption.

I tried Data Rescue's PhotoRescue, but I was not able to recover the
corrupted images in the short time I played with it.

http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/


- Nate
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Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 18:42:36 -0700
Subject: [DigiCam] Re: recovering corrupt digital film images
From: ShirleyK <ShirleyKat at cox.net>
Message-Id: <50A49E24-9889-11D7-BD98-000A9575988A at cox.net>

It shouldn't make any difference which operating system READS the card.
Did you WRITE to it or delete any images from it using a computer
instead of the camera? I guess things are more relaxed these days and
you can do that, but since it was a big no-no with my first digital
camera, I've always let the camera do all of the writing and deleting.

If you can't get any computer (or printer) to recognize the card, I'm
afraid you will have to try to format it (with the camera). It will
destroy the pictures, of course, but since they already appear to be
destroyed, you are now trying to salvage the card. It sounds to me as
if it was already corrupted before it got to the PC.

Had the card been working well before this last problem? A friend had a
similar problem with a compact flash card, but it was the first time he
used it, so it had to be replaced.

Shirley


On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 08:39  PM, Nathan Lim wrote:

> I thought I remembered seeing a discussion about recovering images from
> digital film some time ago, but at the time I did not have any corrupt
> media, so it was not of interest to me.
>
> Well, as you might have guessed, I now have a 128 MB SmartMedia card
> that
> has corrupt images on them. The card claims to have no images on it,
> but it
> only has a few MB free and we know we took pictures that we have not
> downloaded. Anyone know how to recover these images?
>
> At one point we, ahem, put the card in a SanDisk card reader on an XP
> machine (I know, I know, my first mistake) and the volume mounted
> showing
> many folders (presumably one for each image) with gibberish for
> filenames.
> Taking the card out we could read/preview the images on the camera,
> but when
> we took some more pictures and downloaded those, the first set
> "disappeared". We can no longer preview the images in the camera and
> the
> folders do not appear when mounted from the SanDisk media reader.
> However,
> the card still has some already allocated space (i.e. the corrupted
> images).
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>
> - Nate Lim