memory card problems

[Koren Mitchell <>]

I had a similar problem recently, where a CF card from my digital camera
had a data error. I was able to recover most of the photos using software
that I downloaded from the web.

Because memory cards work in a similar way to hard drives in the way they
store data, data can be recovered from them in a similar way to
recovering deleted or corrupt files from a hard drive using something
like Nortons. There are various programs, free and not, that have been
written specifically
to recover data from memory card.

Unfortunately, I downloaded a couple of different programs and can't
remember which one I actually used to recover my photos. The ones that I
have installed on my computer are:
PC Inspector Smart Recovery, from
www.convar.de
 GetDataBack, from
http://www.runtime.org
so I'm pretty sure it was one of these.

Hopefully, nothing that you or the photo lab has done has made any modifications to the card that will prevent data recovery. Give these programs a try. As long as you don't write anything to the card, nothing that you try will risk losing whatever is on there.

Good luck,

Koren Mitchell
Hong Kong

At 17:55 21/08/2004 +0930, Peter Waanders wrote:
> Hi all
>
> A while ago I traded in my camera gear for a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ10. It's
> a 4 megapixel, with a 12x optical zoom (equivalent to 420mm) and image
> stabiliser. It's a great camera and fantastic for bird photography - but on
> a recent birding trip to N Qld (more about that later) one of the memory
> cards I was using returned an error.
> I am looking for assistance from anyone who might know how to recover the
> data. In particular, I remember a message sent to birding-aus (or maybe
> ozbirdpix) by someone earlier this year. This person sent an account of an
> overseas trip and mentioned his memory card played up and had to be sent to
> the US (I think) where they eventually got retrieved his data.
> I have searched the birding-aus archives but couldn't find this message, but
> I am hoping someone remembers this message, so I can get in touch with this
> person. Or maybe there is someone else who knows about data recovery from
> memory cards. I would really like the
> photos on the card back as the majority of them were taken during a trip
> with Chris Dahlberg on the Daintree river, a fantastic trip in itself, and I
> got some great shots of a whole range of birds including Papuan Frogmouth
> and some real close-ups of Nankeen Night-heron in brilliant early morning
> light.
> What happened to my card (it's a 256 MB SanDisk) was that after taking about
> 110 photos the camera simply said "card error". I then put it into my
> digital video camera which could still read it and show the pictures, but
> after a few days gave up on it, too. I took it to a photo lab in Cairns
> where they tried to "do a recovery on it" as the lady called it, but without
> any luck.
> Any assistance from anyone would be immensely appreciated.
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter Waanders
> Waikerie, South Australia
>
> Birding SA: http://www.riverland.net.au/~peterw
> E-mail: 
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