Help! need to unformat XD card from Olympus C-765 !!

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Mike - 20 Jul 2005 09:09 GMT

Just got this camera Olympus C-765, and was happy with it taking
pictures... but accidentaly formatted the XD card ... this stupid
camera does not give you a second prompt before formatting....

I tried using several advertised programs to unformat it , but no luck
so far. I read that XD cards on Olympus and Fuji cameras are
impossible to unformat???

Is there any chance in hell that I can get my pictures back with any
program out there???

thanks for any info,

mike,

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willshak - 20 Jul 2005 11:26 GMT

On 7/20/2005 4:09 AM US(ET), Mike took fingers to keys, and typed the
following:

>Just got this camera Olympus C-765, and was happy with it taking
>pictures... but accidentaly formatted the XD card ... this stupid
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>
>mike,

There are lots of recovery programs selling for $30, $40 and up. This
one from Germany is apparently donate ware.
http://www.pcinspector.de/download.asp?language=1#smart_recovery

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mike - 20 Jul 2005 21:18 GMT

Sorry, No chance to get you images back. The Olympus camera blanks the
memory when the XD card is formatted. I checked an XD card formatted on my
Olympus C-770 and used winhex utility the dump memory and all I can read
are 00's and FF's.

> Just got this camera Olympus C-765, and was happy with it taking
> pictures... but accidentaly formatted the XD card ... this stupid
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>
> mike,

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Derek - 21 Jul 2005 22:14 GMT

> Sorry, No chance to get you images back. The Olympus camera blanks the
> memory when the XD card is formatted. I checked an XD card formatted on my
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> >
> > mike,

Can't you place the XD in a card reader and run the unformat in there we use
one for reading and it just treats the card as a removable disk
Derek

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