Woe, Lost images captured with D60

[Alan H]

Anyone have a remedy for me? Can I recover corrupted files from a CF card? I shot about 10 Lfine JPEGS on a 128Mb Lexar CF card today. When I started it said I had no images so I thought I had a clean card. When I finished I had all the previews and on the last shot it said I had a full CF card. I went back and deleted a couple of images that were excess shots so I would have room for one more shot in the card, took the shot and was done. When I got home I plugged in my camera to download them and they were all gone, every single image! I'm ticked off to say the least. Any ideas on how I can recover the images?

[onehotrx7]

Without a card reader, it'll be very hard... with a card reader it'll be a breeze... don't write anything else to the card, and then there are a wide range of programs you can use for recovery... PC Inspector File Recovery is a good, freeware option, Norton Utilities won't have any trouble, and there's an earlier freeware version of an exceptional image recovery program in the files area of the Canon-G group at Yahoo Groups...

Cheers,
Stuart

[Roger_Cavanagh]

Alan,

Take a look here http://www.robgalbraith.com/diginews/2002-01/2002_01_23_cf_recovery.html

Regards,

[Sniper]

Is this a common problem? Does it happen more often with CF-cards compared to IBM microdrive? Why does it happen?

Anders

[onehotrx7]

It all depends on why the images 'disappeared' - I've seen more problems posted with microdrives than I have with CF Cards, although of the problems I've seen with CF cards in general, most are 'accidental' deletion of the files, followed by cards with problems due to not being formatted regularly... the file structure of the card can get really messy if they're not regularly formatted, and then the image is still being written while the camera is powered down, and bingo, instant corruption of the structure of the files...

In my opinion, CF cards are an extremely stable form of storage... but like all storage, they need treating right...

Cheers,
Stuart

[Alan H]

Thanks for all the replies, I'm going to give it a shot with Norton Utilities on Monday morning. I've used the D60 since March and only had this problem once before from opening the CF door while it was writing. Duh! I'm sure I didn't do that on this shoot, I'm not sure what happened to cause it. Maybe it was trying to delete files when it said the card was full? It shouldn't have been full with 20 some Lfine Jpegs. I think it will hold around 56 Lfine jpegs on a 128Mb cf card. I will reformat my cards much more often.

[Sniper]

Currently I am a G2 user, but I guess that it's the same with the D60. Deleteing pictures takes a lot more time than it does to format the card.

So why would anyone want to delete all the pictures instead of format the card after they are uploaded to the computer? I always format my card after that is done. Is that bad in some way? Can it do some harm to the card?

Anders

[Alan H]

Well...

I tried to recover the images using a G4 with Norton Utilities and a card reader. No Luck, the drives mounted but the USB card reader wouldn't show in the Norton repair window. We tried several ways to get it to recognize the reader... unsuccessfully.

I left the CF card with a friend who will try to recover the images tonight on her PC. I'll keep you posted, in the future I may have to get an I-Book or something to back them up as a safeguard.

From now on I will always format my cards after downloading. Hey, I never claimed to be a tech weenie. Some of us have to learn the hard way, I guess.

Alan

[xmen1977]

sniper wrote:
I always format my card after that is done. Is that bad in some way? Can it do some harm to the card?



guess such question shld be directed at the CF card vendor or manufacturer

they shld hv better idea of how well their cards can perform...