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ooni
4th of August 2004 (Wed), 22:05
Hi!

I had a bunch of images on my compactflash FC-32MH card, which worked and looked just fine on my A75 camera. I put my compactflash card into my brand new (everything is brand new!) sandisk reader/writer, and went to check out the files on the computer (laptop), to find that they were distorted by big vibrant bands of colour, or corrupted and thus not there at all. Some images I was able to view once, had the funny colours. and then they were not viewable.

I had already successfully used that reader (on a different computer) for my other memory disk, and these were pictures from the zoo, so they were special, and I was shocked and worried! I ejected the card and put it back in, and then the strangest thing happened... my images are not there at all!!! I can't access them. Not on my computer or on my camera.

I can take new pictures (I have not erased or reformated the disk), but it still distorts them when I put them into the reader. These new test shots have not disappeared yet though. And they view fine on my camera screen.

My zoo images are still taking up memory someplace, and it says I only have 7 pictures left, but there are no other images there!

Does anyone know what might have happened and how I might retrieve my images and prevent this from happening again? Any information would be very helpful. I have searched the web and are getting frusterated with the lack of answers. :P

Thank you!

msvadi
4th of August 2004 (Wed), 22:45
try photorescue. A similar thing happpened to me some time ago. I was viewing pictures on the CF card using the breezebrowser. When I ejected the CF card, the breezebrowser reported an error, and I could not see the pictures anymore. photorescue recovered all (or almost all) files.

Jon
5th of August 2004 (Thu), 09:54
I've used File Rescue Plus, from Software Shelf, to recover files my D60 couldn't see (saved them, but failed to write the directory entries correctly).

ooni
5th of August 2004 (Thu), 10:41
I will have to try that, thank you! Did your files turn funky colours first? Do you guys know what might have happened, so I can avoid repeating myself in the future?

That disk is doing the funky colour and deleting files thing to everything now! Should I return it?