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Ive got a 2gb samsung sd card and spent the afternoon taking photos.
Popped it in a brand new sd card reader on the desktop, copied 2 photos off it to FB and then it froze up. The computer now comes up with an error message asking whether i want to format the card.
It has a few really nice photos like this..
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How do i get the contents off my card ?? Help please..
try back in the camera and connect that to the PC ?
(I am not a SD card guru and irreversible wipeage may result)
I'd be inclined to try it back in the camera first, as sp says. Do you have another card you can test the reader with?
Does the SD card have a wee switch to make it read-only? Might be worth sliding it on if so to prevent anything being over written / formatted.
Tried it back in the camera and its asking to format the card. Yes it has a lock switch
Sorry to tell you - it's borked. They do that sometimes. You [i]might[/i] be able to find someone on the web who'll recover the data, but if they can, it'll cost you.
Hi. Are you sure the card reader is ok? Had this recently with compact flash cards and a dodgy reader. Caused a lot of heartache...
He's tried it in the camera and got the same. How can it be the card reader?
You could try using PhotoRec, it might get you something. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
That's crap luck, it's the one thing that bothers me about memory cards, and it's why I never erase and re-use mine, I just copy the latest photos off then put the card away once full.
It's the main reason I never use larger than 8Gb cards, even one of those corrupting would lose a couple of thousand photos, having a 16, 32, or 64Gb card crap out when nearly full give me the hives, although, by that time I'd hope that most have been copied onto the computer and backed up.
It's possible that the card corrupted after those two photos, there may be nothing else retrievable from the card; that one above is a lovely photo though, and is, in my humble opinion, worth losing the others just to have that one.
One answer might be to use wifi cards; Transcend do a wifi card, up to 8Gb, I think, which allows the photos to be sent to a phone or pad via a matching app, so there's less risk of the card corrupting while being read.
A bit of Googling turned up this;
http://digital-photography-school.com/recover-images-from-a-damaged-sd-card/
We use a piece of Lexmark software to recover the images, formatting the card oddly doesn't destroy them, pressing the delete button on the camera make them impossible to get back. Weird I know!
Format the card so you can use it, the attempt the recovery software.
Can't promise it'll work. But if they've gone this won't make that worse if it fails.
http://www.lexar.com/products/lexar-image-rescue-4-software
Mikey.. thanks!! the lexmark software appears to be extracting the lost files...
I'll report back....
Annoyingly need an activation code for the software to complete the recovery.. which you get when you purchase a lexar sd card. Report back thursday..
Good let me know. It used to be free but a lexar card is possibly a good investment.
If I have an unopened card at work I'll send you the code.
Mikey.. I have emailed your stw email.. Thanks
Try Recuva.
Code found and sent, hope it works ok?
Hope you recover the data,have wiped an SD card before by hitting reformat key...Doh! 😥
Format is fine for recovering images. Done it a few time with jobs that got forgotten about in a rush and formatted over. pressing Delete on each individual image however buggers them completely.
Apparently it's best to format the SD card in the camera before use to reduce the chance of it getting corrupted. Not sure why, but if you read Ken Rockwell's popular photography website he always banging on about it.