CF Card Recovery, anyone know someone?

Long story short: CF Card isn't being recognized by camera, or computers. No software recovery program is working as the card is prompted to be initialized when inserted. There are about 15-20 photos on here that I would like to recover. Never had an issue with this card prior.

From what I'm reading online, it's most likely a psychical problem in the card, not something that software can fix. Has anyone ran into this issue where they know of a reputable company that can recover photos from corrupt CF cards?

FYI it's a SanDisk Extreme III CD 30MB/s 4GB card.

Thanks in advance.

What programs have you tried?

Recovery companies are quite expensive ($300 and up) and want their money whether successful or not. Best to try the various methods yourself. I would first examine carefully the area where the pins insert for any pin that may have pulled out of camera or reader.

If you bought the card fairly recently SanDisk included a free offer for recovery software from RescuePRO which I've read is quite good. If you still have the box see if the offer is still in there.

ozzmodan wrote in post #16968199
What programs have you tried?

This....Many so called recovery programs are worthless when it comes to partition errors, etc... They can't read the card because the File Allocation Table is hosed, so it produces an error like no card present or can't read the card.

Download Photorec here and try it.
http://www.cgsecurity.​org/wiki/PhotoRec

It's an ugly DOS like interface, but it gets around many of the file system problems when others like Recuva fail.

It's been a while but I think RescuePro failed to recover files from a SanDisk CF card that had a FAT problem...but honestly I can't remember 100%.

Check out the various programs that have been discussed here too.

Gregg.Siam wrote in post #16969302
This....Many so called recovery programs are worthless when it comes to partition errors, etc... They can't read the card because the File Allocation Table is hosed, so it produces an error like no card present or can't read the card.

Download Photorec here and try it.
http://www.cgsecurity.​org/wiki/PhotoRec

It's an ugly DOS like interface, but it gets around many of the file system problems when others like Recuva fail.

It's been a while but I think RescuePro failed to recover files from a SanDisk CF card that had a FAT problem...but honestly I can't remember 100%.

Boom! This worked.

Yeah I was using some other application based softwares that google found, and proved to be useless.

This one worked like a charm. In debt to you, thanks to all that replied!

Cardraider.....worked and i got all my images back!