recovering corrupt digital film images

[retrieve]

Hi Nate,
you may be thinking of Photorescue, shareware.

Doownload it, try it, and if you see images to recover, buy it.

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

Good luck
John




Digital Camera List wrote:

> >> 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