SD Card recovery

Dustin,
I don't think pimply counter jumpers at those places have the expertise, and even if they reckoned they did, I wouldn't trust them with my stuff.
Look in the Yellow Pages for data recovery under computers.
Sorry couldn't be more helpful
Gerry

You could try it in another computer , it may not be the card , tha Computer may not be able to recognise it , Just a hunch

My son recovered photos on an SD card I accidentally formatted with a program called GetDataBack.

There are plenty of programs on the net that you can use.

Search the fourm here for one I posted up about november time when I had the same issue with photos from the Flinders.
Got ALL of them back.

happened to me recently on a 4gig cf card....... said there was an error after 20 pics. I ended up downloading them individualy took almost 3 hours but i did not want to lose the pics. card was brand new and was it's first use....... i took it back straight away

This isn't in relation to the recovery issue its what the problem is in the first place.

I have had some issues with 2G & 4G SD cards in different devices in the last few months.

(1) In one instance the device bring used did very strange things when using a 4G card. On read the 'destructions' as a last resort (as you do) I found that it only supported up to 2G. Why I have no idea.

(2) Once you go over 2G the formating or compression architecture used (don't know which one) in the SD card itself is different to allow for the extra G's.

(3) In another instance the reader wouldn't work and I had to plug the SD card directly into a laptop. Again have no idea it is/was so.

In view of these experiences and those of others It would appear that not all SD cards and/or readers/devices etc are compatible, leading to in some instances, the the SD cards being labelled duds, when possibly not the case.

we also had this problem, a card locked up with an European trip on it.. What they dont tell you is that with these cards you MUST reformat them after every 4 or 5 downloads and deletions. Evidenntly, like computer files, bits are left on the card after deletion and you can fill them to a point where they "unexpectadly" (spelling) lock up. we tried the specialist photo stores, recovered the card , but lost the photos.... wished I had heard about the dats recovery programs mentioned above.
Happy & Safe Easter to all...

A couple of points:
1. There are a lot of fake Sandisk cards around There are lots of an articles about them, some on eBay - type this into Google to find them:
Are there fake Sandisk compact flash cards?, click, Pages from Australia, then click Google search.
It may be that you have a fake, especially if you bought through eBay. The articles will tell you how to tell. Amazingly, an eBay article claims that over 90% of cards offered on eBay as Sandisk are fake!

2. I tried to use a 4GB card in my camera (Nikon 5400), only to find the camera can't reliably use greater than 2GB, and can't use over 3GB at all. If you have a Sandisk card, go to www.sandisk.com, go to the type of card you've got, and then go to "Compatibility" - this will tell you whether the card you've got is suitable for your camera. You may be trying to use a card that's not meant for your camera.

3. I bought a couple of Sandisk Extreme III 2GB cards, and each came with a CD containing photo recovery software. (Each card will store over 3000 high quality photos!).

I have always recommended to friends who ask to store photos on multiple small cards rather than one big one. Not that the smaller ones are more reliable its just that if you have a 2 or 4 gig cards with thousands of pics and something does go wrong (including camera being lost or stolen) you lose a lot of photos.

Take the card to aresponsible computer shop ,, and htey will do it no worries !

We had 120 megs of a 1 gig card lock up on us last year ,,, lots of good pics ,,
They recovered all but 1 foto ( probably where the fault was in the card )
Burnt them to a CD ,, Cost $45

Beautifull

Cheers
Bucky

Any data recovery program should be ok, i prefer Get Data Back for NTFS and FAT32, these are two seperate programs and if patient you can pull off all your photos from the memory card. I have had that problem and format my cards everytime and as soon as i have used up the card straight out to the laptop. You can buy genuine sandisk cards striaght from sandisk web site and they have good deals.

You might have to update your camera with the latest drivers, yes digital camera's need firm ware updates just like a computer. then follow instructions. Also with the cards see if you can( ie 4gb sd cards) format them into 2 partitions using any good partitioning software like paragon easy drive manager etc,,,,

And happy snapping!!!

See, ner ner ner I keep telling you guys, stay with the trusted & proven, I'm glad I have not got rid of my Canon 90is pro, uses compact flash cards which seem to be incredibly reliable, and even now availble at Aldi....
Son & wife have different cameras that use SD cards and I have found that the best way to download the pics is to leave the card in the camera and connect the cameras to the PC rather than putting the card in a reader.
Olympus cameras for some reason will only take panographs on genuine olympus cards too.
At a computer fair the other week I noticed on on stall a wog (worthy oriental gentleman) selling, now wait for this - SAFE lights for "digital darkrooms", of course I bought several to give as gifts to friends....

Maybe this site will help

www.ultimateimagerecovery.com/

Dustin,

i have used a program called Protorec a number of times to recover deleted photos from digital camera memory cards. All with very good results.
its free and downloadable.

A photography lecturer once told me the best rule for reducing memory card damage - "leave it in the camera."

Good luck
roopaw@westnet.com.au