Help me recover images

[wcameron]

Ouch. I've done a bad thing. I formatted a secure digital card because I thought I had downloaded the images but it turns out I have not. I've never had a problem dealing with this with compact flash. I use a laptop and have a pcmcia adapter. When things have gone wrong, it was a simple matter of inserting the card and running either photorec or rescuepro and it would recover the images.

With my SD card in my new Canon SX1IS and connect the camera by usb, the camera recognizes the camera but none of the recovery software does. When I run RescuePro or photorec the camera is not visible to these programs and so I can't even attempt to recover the files.

I'd love any advice you can offer.

Thanks in advance.

wcameron

[yanz]

Hey. I think you need to get a card reader. This way the recovery software will recognize the card and you will be able to try to recover the images.

Good luck,

Yan

[wcameron]

I have a card reader, but for some reason it's not recognizing the SD card placed in it. I've even tried a second card (both of which work in camera). Time for a new reader I guess but I can't figure out why they don't see the camera. It shows up just like a reader does.

[wcameron]

I just purchased a new Lexar Card reader along with another Lexar card so I could get PhotoRescue 3. I've run both PhotoRescue AND the DOS recovery program PhotoRec. Both retrieve more than 200 files but when I try to open them in Photoshop CS4 it tells me that they are the wrong file type. They are correctly recovered as cr2 files. Is there anything additional I can do to repair the files?

[wcameron]

I solved the problem. It wasn't a problem with the recovery software. It was a simple fact that the new Canon Powershot SX1IS needed an upgrade to Adobe Camera Raw before it would open up in Photoshop CS4.