Smart Digital Card - Photos Lost?

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#1 Post by **GomJabbar** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:03 pm

My youngest daughter recently made a trip to visit her older married sister. She brought along a Kodak digital camera that had a SD card in it. Later after she returned, her other sister put the card in her Palm Lifedrive to view the pictures. Then after that, at some point she went to hotsinc her Lifedrive with the desktop. Now both the Lifedrive and the Camera say that the card needs to be reformatted. No pictures show up on the card. Are they gone for good, or is there a way to retrieve them?

So far they have not reformatted the card, and I instructed them not to. These cards and digital photography is somewhat new to me, so you ones that have gone through this before, tell me what can be done, if anything. Thanks.

#2 Post by **BillMorrow** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:44 pm

dumb question but have you looked on the desktop for the pics..?

#3 Post by **GomJabbar** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:01 am

It's not a dumb question. Part of the trouble is that I am not home to personally troubleshoot this issue. In fact after I posted, it occurred to me that there is one of these USB multicard readers attached to the desktop. I don't think they tried the card in that reader yet - although it probably won't make a difference.

I'll tell her to search the desktop for the photos.

f1reverb · #4 Post by **f1reverb** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:00 am

Try PhotoRescue, and it will tell you if it can recover the pics, and you only have to pay if it can . . .

http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/

#5 Post by **GomJabbar** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:32 am

Thanks for the tip f1reverb. I'll check it out.

FredFromNYC · #6 Post by **FredFromNYC** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:19 pm

Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery can recover digital images. You have to pay to use other features but the image recovery function itself is free.

#7 Post by **GomJabbar** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:34 am

OK, I finally got around to attempting the digital image recovery process on the SD card.

First I looked to see what was on the card using the memory reader attached to the desktop - as per Bill Morrow. I saw several Palm related directories and files, but no images. This told me that a hot sync operation with the Palm Lifedrive had probably reformated the card.

Next I tried f1reverb's suggestion of PhotoRescue as I felt it had the most likelyhood of success. Yea

It recovered over 260 photos.

After saving the photos to a folder on the desktop, I decided to try FredFromNYC's suggestion of Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery. First I explored the card to see if the images were now on it, but all I saw were the Palm files and folders. When I ran Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery, it could not recover anything.

I decided to run PhotoRescue again to see if it could recover the images a second time. It recovered all the same images as the first time.

f1reverb · #8 Post by **f1reverb** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:30 am

GomJabbar, glad to see PhotoRescue did what it's supposed to do. I'm a firm believer in transferring pics from memory cards on the computer instead of via USB/Firewire from the camera. I also only format on the computer, and never delete or format in the camera. This is contrary to what most camera manufacturers suggest, but it leaves me with full control and I do a full format and thorough scan after every use of a card. I have 36gb in cards, so I have enough for my Nikon D1H/D70/D200 cameras without having to offload because I need more space in the middle of shooting.

Stargate199 · #9 Post by **Stargate199** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:03 pm

Man, I wish I had this back in July. This same thing happened with my Kodak camera too. Thankfully most of my pictures were on my computer, but my more recent ones were not there. Good thing they were ones I didn't care about.

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