A memory card ...oh no

Grissom

I probably already know the answer to the questions I am going to ask anyways.

I use a Sandisk SDHC Extreme III 4GB card in my G9 and had probably 100 photos already on it when I copied photos from one computer to the memory card via a external usb reader. I thought the transfer was successful and that I had safely removed the card. I get home and it says the the card is empty both on my computer and in the camera :scratch

I tried the Rescue Pro Disk, Wolf Camera, PC Inspector Smart Recovery & File Recovery and there is no trace of my pictures.

Anything else that I should try?

Is the card still useable if I format it in the camera?

Thanks

ziggy53

I use ZAR (Zero Assumption Recovery). It's far from the best and it can't find file names, so you have to manually rename the files later. Even the file suffix is often wrong, so you might have to add the correct suffix too.

It is also very slow.

... but, it's free to try and it often works for me when nothing else will work. (Windows)

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/zar84setup.exe

Jonnyyaya

I use FileSalvage is an extremely powerful Macintosh application for exploring and recovering deleted files from a drive or volume. FileSalvage is designed to restore files that have:

• been accidentally deleted.
• become unreadable due to media faults.
• been stored on a drive before it was re-initialized/formatted.

Use FileSalvage to recover your lost files, iTunes libraries, iPhoto collections, and to rescue data that has been lost.


On my IMAC...


Has worked perfect for me 100%

Richard

The only time I needed to do a recovery was when I stupidly erased a card before uploading the pics. I used a free/open source program called PhotoRec. I haven't used a recent version, but about three years ago, it was a little geeky and changed the file extensions to .TIF inappropriately, though it was a simple matter to change them back to .CR2. Nevertheless, it did recover all the files, so I was pleased.

If none of the recovery options that people have suggested work, then I'm afraid your shots are gone, and you have nothing to lose by reformatting the card in the camera.

Art Scott

I use LEXAR'S IMAGE RESCUE 2.......it allows for you to decide what types of files are recovered....raw, jpg, tif...etc etc.......I always did a full recover of all file extensions.....it does give a very long numeric name to all recovered files and you have to rename properly...........it never has gotten the file extension wrong and it puts raws and jpgs into separate folders...........
my copy came on the lexar cards I have......the retail version is around $29 or 39.....I do not remeber...........

BradfordBenn

I had a similiar issue this week with my SanDisk 2GB Ultra II SD card. The challenge was that my Canon would not read it, but in the USB card reader on my Mac, or the internal SD reader on my Win laptop, it read fine. So at times it is the reader that is the challenge. You may want to try another one. I also decided that after that card gave me the Card Error on the Canon, I threw it out and bought a new card for $17 just in case it was catastrophic and I would not be able to rescue it again.