[DigiCam] Re: recovering corrupt digital film images

[ShirleyK]

So, have you been able to format the card and rescue it for future use?

Shirley



On Saturday, June 7, 2003, at 09:36  AM, Nathan Lim wrote:

> 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
>
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