Urgent Help - 10D MagicStor MD Lose in photos

[kfho1]

A very strange problem found from my MD, i shoot about one hundred photos with my MD, however when I put it in my card reader, there are only 30 come back in my file explorer, and the others all disappered!! But the strange thing is the MD space usage is in 300MB which should be the photos size, so could anyone tell me is there any tools or ways to recover it? Is the FAT table of the card is corrupted, they are important photos, many thanks in advance!! I try to put it back to the camera and they all disappered as well, i'm sure i got everything when i was at the outside!!

[rodbunn]

Put the card back in the camera and connect the camera to the
computer and download them the slow way.....

Worked for me one time when I couldn't read my card.

Rod

[kfho1]

Put the card back in the camera and connect the camera to the
computer and download them the slow way.....

Worked for me one time when I couldn't read my card.

Rod


I have already done so, but the result is still the same! Thanks rodbunn!!

[CyberDyneSystems]

Return the Magicstor immediately.. never buy one again.. abd chalk up the lost photos to one of lifes mistakes. :(

The Magicstor is a complete disaster. I have said these exact words in this forum a few time before...

"..It will bring you nothing but pain and heart-ache"

[Morden]

The Magicstor is a complete disaster. I have said these exact words in this forum a few time before...

"..It will bring you nothing but pain and heart-ache"

I have a 2.2GB MagigStor and must agree; it's unreliable rubbish. :evil:

[Jon]

Before you send it back, search here for "file recovery" or "image recovery". There have been several threads on image recovery programs, free, trialware, or commercial, that may possibly let you recover at least some of the pictures from your drive. You have nothing to lose except your pictures.

[Cadwell]

The 2.2GB MagicStor hard disc is the work of the devil. Best of luck getting your photos back but once you (hopefully) do, do yourself a favour and throw that thing as far away as possible.

I cannot stress strongly enough just how bad MagicStor discs are.

[Jesper]

I don't have a Magicstor MD myself, but I've seen so many posts by people who have problems with them. The Magicstor MD is bad! Do a search on "Magicstor" in these forums and read about the problems.

I hope you can still exchange it for something that works.... :?

[kfho1]

I tried different freeware, shareware from the web and none of them could recover that for me, finally, i went back to a very traditional method which is from DOS century, using the command "chkdsk /f", and then reboot the Windows XP with my MD and card reader connected to the USB port, XP did do me a recovery. After that I found a log file and a hidden folder ( dir /a) which contains all my lost photos but they were all in a different file name and with a .CHK extension, so I used a batch rename tool to rename them back to *.JPG. Thanks God and I know what I'll do with this stupid MD! I discovered the price of 2G SanDisk has dropped a lot, may think about it, much more reliable, I cannot afford this accident again!!

[kfho1]

After this experience I just imagined, would Canon think about the storage backup in the EOS body, just like the concept from computer server, it can do a mirror RAID which writes data in two different hard drives and that can prevent from hard drive single point of failure and i think the next DIGI 3 should be fast enough to do this as a "RAID controller", so EOS body should allow two CF or may be SD (save spaces) to be inserted. Maybe they have already done so.

[Cadwell]

After this experience I just imagined, would Canon think about the storage backup in the EOS body, just like the concept from computer server, it can do a mirror RAID which writes data in two different hard drives and that can prevent from hard drive single point of failure and i think the next DIGI 3 should be fast enough to do this as a "RAID controller", so EOS body should allow two CF or may be SD (save spaces) to be inserted. Maybe they have already done so.

I believe the Canon EOS 1D Mark II can do this.

[Jon]

Appears to be a feature of the 1Ds Mk II as well. You can either mirror, or write sequentially to, the CF and SD cards.

[EoSD30fReAk]

don't ever buy a magicstor card!! they are evil garbage!!!

if you already have one throw it as far away as possible and don't look back :lol:

[waynejgilbert]

I was going to get one but after reading so many horror stories on other sites I passed.

[kfho1]

Just went out and check the price of CF I, SanDisk 1G is only HKD$620 (USD$80) and 2G is only HKD$1300 (USD$166).