LOST PIC FROM CF CARD!!!!!!!

[Tomasz Dziechciarz]

I will be killed soon because I lost some pic from my CF-card.

Last SAT I was doing wedding pictures 20D plus some CF cards.
I have 256MB precetc, 256MB lexar 40x, 1 MB kingston and "beloved" 512 MB KINGSTON.

I filled all of them and when I was at home I was trying to download them to my PC via CF-reader. AS usually evrything (at the begining) went OK but suddenly when I connected my 512MB kingston - my PC said " I cannot find the device, my 20D said the same later on"
I went to the one company then another they all say immpossible but they aren't specialist so I ask you to help me ....

JUST TO CONFIRM the is something on the disk for sure, I did not format this card, during taking pictures i was reveving the pictures without problems so I do not understand what happened.


My 20D shows ---- "CF err"


I have (I still hope so I have) the pictures from church!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


help me please, ....

:o :o :o :o

[Grimnar]

Stick the card in a card reader, and use Easy Recovery Pro. Thats the stuff im using when I need to recover some stuff. Very easy to use as well.
Good luck:)

[tim]

Try this free tool (http://home.arcor.de/a.niggemann/dir.zip) before you spend money on recovery software.

[Tomasz Dziechciarz]

Would you send me on my mailbox tomekd AATTT isuzu DDOTTT pl cos i cannot download it, please

[tim]

Done, good luck :)

[Pamela107]

I hope you are able to get those back, I know just how you feel .

When I shoot weddings , that is NOT the thing you want to happen.

A suggestion if I may, go out and get a portible storage device, everytime you get a card filled just put your card in and back it up on the spot.

I know there a few nice ones out there that have a belt clip attachment and you can put disk in and back up while its clipped to your belt. And still take your photo's at the same time with another disk.

Stand alone has a 20GB for 350

Good Luck

Pamela

[condyk]

Try this free tool (http://home.arcor.de/a.niggemann/dir.zip) before you spend money on recovery software.

That's a great link Tim, thanks.

Had a very scary moment tho'. I bought my 1GB cards SH and alongside the many images I have taken and deleted over the last few weeks there in front of me now are 50+ shots of Cyprus, taken last August by the previous owner I guess, including one of a 'stout' lady in her underwear!!!! AND I fast format my cards regularly :lol: :lol: :lol: I think a proper format is in order!

Maybe I should check all my other cards next :lol:

[Cadwell]

If the PC says it's can't find the device (yet it can find other CF cards in the same CF reader) and the 20D reckons "CF err"... then it sounds like the CF card interface hardware has failed on the card. Nothing you can do under those circumstances.

[Tomasz Dziechciarz]

The info from PC - I cannot find the drive g:

But when I installed another memeory card everything is fortunatelly OK.

[Tomasz Dziechciarz]

Many thnx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will try to run .....

[Tomasz Dziechciarz]

I have such device I-tec 30 GB. I was trying download after chcurch ceremony ...

And then I saw card problem first

[Rroet]

Another tool I've used a few times now: http://www.z-a-recovery.com/download.htm
The "Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery". It's a freeware tool without any functional limitations.

It's recovered more then I've every hoped for. On my Lexar and Sandisk cards... I also have Lexar's own Image Rescue tool, but that tool is <foul language> compared to the zar tool.

[maxb24]

I am searching high and low on the web as I have just had a similar problem with ERR 02 showing on camera. It allowed me to take around 180 images on card one. I changed cards, but then it began to flash up images on card one (which was by then in camera bag). How this happened I have no idea, but card two ended up with NO images on, and card one, only 41 available images. I did use the link mentioned here as I asked other forum readers, and it receovered a further 20 for me. It claims to have receovered a further 238 images, though these won't show up. The cf card will not work directly into this PC, through the camera to the laptop and the digiburner won't touch it either. It shows up on the big PC as CTG files. What are these and what can I do about them, if anything? Thankfully these images are just of dogs at a funday to raise money for a dog charity and not a wedding, but I would like to understand a bit more as I wish to prevent this happening again in future. I can find NOTHING about CTG in any of my digital books and not even anything on the internet. Please help

[mikolaj]

Dzien dobre tomasz--

I had the SAME exact problem (thread (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=53709))
As it turned out i sent the card to lexar, and they replaced it with a new one.
I purchased another card with the recovery software on it, and successfully got the images back...

Good luck, my friend.

[mikolaj]

Do you have the add-on grip? Canon said there is a problem with that and Lexar cards...

[Steiny]

I had a similar experience. Whatever you do, procede with caution and good luck. I had about 300 pictures on a Sandisk Ultra II 1 gig card. I had some problems with the card when transfering via the card reader to the computer. The card reader would hang during transfer. I would have to reboot the computer during the process, come back to the file that the card reader hung on and delete it and then procede with transfering the files. This happened twice each of the first two times that I used the card. I figured no big deal. Well this last time, I followed the same pattern. Only after I rebooted, the card reader could not read the card at all. It gave an error message.

I then went to another computer with the CF card and a different card reader and also could not read the CF card. I put the CF card back in the camera to see if it would read anything and I think the camera showed error 02 or something like that.

So I waited a day because I was tired and thought I would try one more thing. I went to the laptop and and used a PCMCIA card reader just to see if it would read the card. It did read it, only it showed nothing on it at all and I know there were at least 300 pictures on it.

Then the questions becomes is there any way I can get get these pictures. So I thought to myself, I have always been told that if you format something, like a hard drive, technically as long as you do not right over it, everything is still here, you just cannot see it. So if I format the card so it maybe clears off whatever error might be on it, maybe via SanDisk Rescue Pro I can recover the files.

So I formatted the disk, downloaded and paid for the SanDisk software and amazingly I was able to recover all the files. What is interesting is it even revcovered some pictures that I had taken the week before that I guess had not been written over but I had deleted.

Anyway, problem was solved. I don't know if that will work for you. The pictures mean something to you so that is a big deal. Mine were not all that crucial if I lost them.

So now my issue is, what is the problem. Does the card have a problem? Is the camera starting to develop a problem when writing pictures? Are the card readers the problem? I called Sandisk and they are going to replace the card. I have about a 1/2 dozen other Sandisk cards, all older than the Ultra II. Never had a problem with any of them before. Sandisk tells me that my two card readers, one of them a Sandisk may not be compatible. Yeah maybe, but I see it as passing the buck. I think it is the card. They are sending me a new one.

I feel your pain. I will make you this offer. When you get to your wits end and are about ready to give up on this problem, I would be willing to give it a shot. Seriously if you get to the point where you have given up all hope and you are not going to see those pictures, if you want to send the card to me and let me try it, what I would do is see if I could get the card to read in any of my card readers or camera. If I could, I would format it and then take it back into the card reader and run the Sandisk software on it to see if it could salvage any of the pictures. I would make no promises, but hey if you are at your wits end, why not try it.

If I am successful, you buy me dinner. If you live too far away from me to buy dinner, you can send me the money for a nice dinner. Of course, either way I would send you your card back.

I remember one time when my cousin asked me to take some pictures at his wedding. At the time, I had a decent digital camera. It was a 1 megapixel Sony Mavica. I get to the wedding and my camera flash decides to bite the dust. It was indoor wedding. Luckily my uncle had just bought a new point and shoot digital camera. We were 4 hours away from home. Thankfully he brought it with him and I borrowed it from him. I was sweating it for a little while there.

It is funny how things turn out though. At that same wedding, my cousin's friend brought his camera to take pictures. He had a Canon G1 at the time. So he and I were all over the place taking pictures. I then snagged his CF card from his G1 to get his pictures and put them together with the ones that I took. I was amazed at how much better that G1 pictures were than the Nikon's. We took pictures in the same area about the same distance and the G1 pictures were so much better. I did not tell anyone which ones were which and gave my cousin a CD with like 300 wedding pictures on it. He was very happy. After that, I went out and bought a G2 and have been a Canon user ever since.

Sorry to get off track and ramble on too much. If I can be of help, let me know.

Steiny