CF Card screwing up files

I've had this sandisk 2Gb card for about 2 years, and about a month ago, when I got home, I couldn't open 2 files in ACR, but they looked ok on the camera and the thumbnail showed up on bridge just fine. I deleted them because I had duplicates and didn't think much of it. Now that happened again, but with photos that I didn't have duplicates of. The error on acr is : " Unable to switch the current image. There was an unexpected end of file error. " Should I try to recover these files with some sort of software ?

If they matter to you, yes. SanDisk supplies Rescue Pro with their Extreme cards and readers. Photo Rescue Advanced can be downloaded on a trial basis that will let you see if it can recover your pictures; if it looks promising you can then buy it and complete the recovery.

Either way, did you reformat the card after the last problem? If not, do so now, preferably in the computer and then in the camera. If it won't format and it's an Ultra II or better, call SanDisk about their lifetime warranty. If it's not, then pitch it. Even if it does format, I'd try writing a bunch of stuff to it repeatedly to see if an error happens again, and flag it as one to be used only for non-critical photos.

Dont mean to Hijack ur thread Davidoff, but I just thought my problem was related, I have a SanDisk Ultra II 1Gb Card and it just wont read. I have about 300 images in it that I have no access to, coz the camera says CF Error and no card reader reads the CF. It worked fine..just one fine day...pop..gone.

Is there anyway I can recover the files??

Jon, I'll try out the SanDisk software. I formated it on camera, this time around I'll format it on the pc and camera. It's not an ultra, it's the standard blue ones. I think it doesn't even have 2 years, so I called the SanDisk distributer here in Portugal, they said it had a 2 year warranty but because I didn't have the receipt the store probably would'nt exchange it and they couldn't really do anything. That's what it's like living in Portugal, no official Sandisk office. Anyway, I'll format it twice and then try again. Thanks

krazziecliff wrote in post #5702632
Dont mean to Hijack ur thread Davidoff, but I just thought my problem was related, I have a SanDisk Ultra II 1Gb Card and it just wont read. I have about 300 images in it that I have no access to, coz the camera says CF Error and no card reader reads the CF. It worked fine..just one fine day...pop..gone.

Is there anyway I can recover the files??

Try PhotoRescue Advanced from DataRescue; it's one I mentioned above.

Ok, I'm trying to recover the photos with PhotoRescue Pro, same error on photoshop, unexpected end of file. Also it's strange that the program said the card has 1GB and it's a 2Gb card. Now it's scanning the drive sectors......
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Read errors: 0
Free clusters: 0

Did you maybe get the card on eBay and just never run it up past 1 GB before? Alternatively, one of the memory chips on the card might have failed catastrophically. But using the advanced tools available in PhotoRescue you should be able to examine and recover individual sectors, concatenating them to give you a complete (or nearly so) image file.

No, I bought it new and filled it many times. I wasn't able to recover the photographs, they really were damaged files and not just " hidden ". Windows says it's 2Gb when I formatted in on the computer tough. Formatted it again on camera, I'll fill it up again now and see how it holds up.