I have done something stupid. I took about 200 photos on holiday recently in
Ireland . On my return tried to download them to my computer and
accidentally wiped the memory card clean instead of downloading. Does anyone
know of anywhere I can take my memory card for them to retrieve the
information?
Thanks in advance
Pilbs - 10 Jul 2005 17:26 GMT
>I have done something stupid. I took about 200 photos on holiday recently
>in
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> Thanks in advance
What type of card, What camera ?
Wonder if http://www.pcinspector.de/smart_media_recovery/uk/welcome.htm
might work
Rolf Egil Sølvik - 11 Jul 2005 01:21 GMT
>"Vincent Burgum" <vincent@burgum.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>>I have done something stupid. I took about 200 photos on holiday recently
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>Wonder if http://www.pcinspector.de/smart_media_recovery/uk/welcome.htm
>might work
It should work very well with a memory card reader (or if the OP's
camera "gets a drive letter of it's own" - unlike my Canon A60)
With a card reader even Jpegdump by Kurt Stege -
http://www.goto.onlinehome.de/dsc/jpegdump.htm - should work very
well if you can figure out what/how to write in the Command Line
(it's just 2 lines). I rescued over 100 pictures with this program
(half of them very small thumbnails, though) from a co-workers
seemingly "blank" card when he had done something to it he shouldn't
have or pushed a button too many.
The utility from PCInspector might be better if you have fragmented
pictures, i.e. pictures stored in more than one place
(non-contiguously) - resulting from deleting pictures out of order
and making the free space on the card more than one place, as they
will appear to be broken/unsalvageable with Jpegdump.
Both programs will not write to the card, only read an image of the
memory card - thus preserving the card for another (picture) file
recovery tool if it should not work for your card.
And from my experience theese words are worth remebering:
"What to do before loosing the images
You can rise the chances of recovering deleted images in an accident
by using a simple stratgy. And jpegdump cannot recover fragmented
jpeg files. So try not to fragment the file system on your memory
card. You can do this best, when you delete all files on the memory
card after transmitting them to the PC. Don't delete any single
files on the memory card. If you want to delete a single image after
taking the photo, do it immediately. The last stored picture may be
deleted without much risk of fragmentation. Deleting any other image
will result in a fragmentation of the free memory in the card, so
don't do that, if you want to be prepared for the case of an
accident."
i.e. format the card before each seperate trip/use/session and do
not delete any other picture than the last one captured.
Mike Russell - 10 Jul 2005 20:09 GMT
>I have done something stupid. I took about 200 photos on holiday recently
>in
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> know of anywhere I can take my memory card for them to retrieve the
> information?
A friend recently recovered images from a formatted drive using the
photorescue program from datarescue.com.
Run their demo first to see if it finds anything before buying.

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tomcas - 11 Jul 2005 02:58 GMT
> I have done something stupid. I took about 200 photos on holiday recently in
> Ireland . On my return tried to download them to my computer and
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>
> Thanks in advance
Do it yourself with the free utility Restoration.
http://www.snapfiles.com/download/dlrestoration.html
dave - 12 Jul 2005 12:27 GMT
> I have done something stupid. I took about 200 photos on holiday recently in
> Ireland . On my return tried to download them to my computer and
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>
> Thanks in advance
google for PHOTOREC.EXE (made by art plus software), there's a free tool
that does the job admirably. not the fastest, but who cares when it does
what it's supposed to?