MOZ_S45
20th of July 2003 (Sun), 16:44
hi Guys,
I have just had my first bad digital experience, I have been out today for a family day out and had taken approx 50 photos with a bit of video no problem, I was viewing the images etc. aprox 1/4 hour after last using the camera sucessfully, I turned it on to take another image and found the camera slow to power up, once it did it wouldn't let me do anything, then it displayed a CF Card error. To my horror it wouldn't let me do anything at all, view previous images, in fact it wouldn't even let me power down, it was as if the whole camera had locked up (like a computer crash), messing about with the function dial eventually caused it to retract the lens and shut down, since then I haven't been able to use the cmera. I isolated the fault being tjhe card rather than the camera due to the fact that I took the card out and the camera worked fine but just couldn't record the image.
Having read a number of previous threads I was hoping that I could use some of the downloadable software previously identified to try to retrieve some of my lost images ( all of them on the card), unfortunately I have a feeling my situation may be more terminal tahn most as my card reader doesn't recognise any disk, and keeps reporting an I/O fault, I have tried the suggested " run CHKDSK /F" function with no recognition. Any Ideas, does it sound like my 128Mb CF card is dead and my day's pictures lost for ever?
If so I can only say that I am ever so lucky in some respects as we returned from a weeks holiday Yesterday and I downloaded all of those pictures last night, ( I would have been devastated to have lost those!
How robust are these CF cards, could I have damaged it last night downloading the holiday snaps??
The thing i can't quite understand is why it worked fine for so long and then failed so catastrophcally, could it be a camera fault that has killed the CF card or just a duff card itself, I have tried another card and the camera works fine at present,any ideas??
Please help.
Thanks.
MOZ
I have just had my first bad digital experience, I have been out today for a family day out and had taken approx 50 photos with a bit of video no problem, I was viewing the images etc. aprox 1/4 hour after last using the camera sucessfully, I turned it on to take another image and found the camera slow to power up, once it did it wouldn't let me do anything, then it displayed a CF Card error. To my horror it wouldn't let me do anything at all, view previous images, in fact it wouldn't even let me power down, it was as if the whole camera had locked up (like a computer crash), messing about with the function dial eventually caused it to retract the lens and shut down, since then I haven't been able to use the cmera. I isolated the fault being tjhe card rather than the camera due to the fact that I took the card out and the camera worked fine but just couldn't record the image.
Having read a number of previous threads I was hoping that I could use some of the downloadable software previously identified to try to retrieve some of my lost images ( all of them on the card), unfortunately I have a feeling my situation may be more terminal tahn most as my card reader doesn't recognise any disk, and keeps reporting an I/O fault, I have tried the suggested " run CHKDSK /F" function with no recognition. Any Ideas, does it sound like my 128Mb CF card is dead and my day's pictures lost for ever?
If so I can only say that I am ever so lucky in some respects as we returned from a weeks holiday Yesterday and I downloaded all of those pictures last night, ( I would have been devastated to have lost those!
How robust are these CF cards, could I have damaged it last night downloading the holiday snaps??
The thing i can't quite understand is why it worked fine for so long and then failed so catastrophcally, could it be a camera fault that has killed the CF card or just a duff card itself, I have tried another card and the camera works fine at present,any ideas??
Please help.
Thanks.
MOZ