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Photo Forum / Digital Photography / DSLR Cameras / July 2006Help Please - Image recovery CF Card.
Hi All Just returned from a "once in a lifetime" holiday and discovered that one of the cards I was using was formatted after download BUT - I failed to check that all the images had been written to the computer before re-formatting the card. The camera is a Nikon D70 (Compact Flash card) and was re-formatted in the camera. Nothing has been done with the card since - no images written to it or anything else. Please can anybody tell me how to recover these images - Maybe a piece of software care of the Web or ........ I live in Lincolnshire UK if I really have to pay someone to do it - (:<(( Many thanks in advance for all help, I appreciate it. O.N > Hi All > Just returned from a "once in a lifetime" holiday and discovered that one of the cards I was using was formatted after download BUT - I failed to check that all the images had been written to the computer before re-formatting the card. > The camera is a Nikon D70 (Compact Flash card) and was re-formatted in the camera. Nothing has been done with the card since - no images written to it or anything else. > Please can anybody tell me how to recover these images - Maybe a piece of software care of the Web or ........ I live in Lincolnshire UK if I really have to pay someone to do it - (:<(( > Many thanks in advance for all help, I appreciate it. Nip out and buy yourself a Lexar Pro 80X WA card which says it has software for file recovery on it - phone your nearest stockist of a range of cards. Sandisk also have a rescue program included on some of their cards. I know the Lexar one - ImageRescue - works very well and it does recover from other makers' cards. The cheapest way to get this program legimitately is to buy the smallest Lexar Pro or other Lexar card which includes it, and it will say so on the packaging. Just copy the program on to your PC or Mac (it comes in both flavours) and keep it for all future problems. Lexar Pro 80X WA cards which generally have this are very good value, actually they are Nikon's recommendation and the program is designed to recognise .NEF files as well as Nikon's JPEG filenaming. Your images will not have been erased at all unless you have subsequently used the card to shoot more, or have 'secure erased' the card (which ImageRescue can also do - it offers this and formatting, card testing, and three levels of image recovery). David Thanks David and all I have bought a Lexar Pro card - with software and have got the images back. I'm not sure that they are what they are supposed to be in terms of Raw+ basic (jpeg) but at least I have a record. It seems too it has recovered some images from another outing that I was not aware that I had not saved so that's great - I will have to look more carefully at the card & directory structures etc. Thanks all for your great help Ono. PS the D70 with software U/G does delete images when you run card format (:<(( I only format cards in the camera in an attempt to minimise the chance of losing images. NEVER done on a pc! Ono Notim wrote: > Hi All > Just returned from a "once in a lifetime" holiday and discovered that one of the cards I was using was formatted after download BUT - I failed to check that all the images had been written to the computer before re-formatting the card. > The camera is a Nikon D70 (Compact Flash card) and was re-formatted in the camera. Nothing has been done with the card since - no images written to it or anything else. > Please can anybody tell me how to recover these images - Maybe a piece of software care of the Web or ........ I live in Lincolnshire UK if I really have to pay someone to do it - (:<(( > Many thanks in advance for all help, I appreciate it. Nip out and buy yourself a Lexar Pro 80X WA card which says it has software for file recovery on it - phone your nearest stockist of a range of cards. Sandisk also have a rescue program included on some of their cards. I know the Lexar one - ImageRescue - works very well and it does recover from other makers' cards. The cheapest way to get this program legimitately is to buy the smallest Lexar Pro or other Lexar card which includes it, and it will say so on the packaging. Just copy the program on to your PC or Mac (it comes in both flavours) and keep it for all future problems. Lexar Pro 80X WA cards which generally have this are very good value, actually they are Nikon's recommendation and the program is designed to recognise .NEF files as well as Nikon's JPEG filenaming. Your images will not have been erased at all unless you have subsequently used the card to shoot more, or have 'secure erased' the card (which ImageRescue can also do - it offers this and formatting, card testing, and three levels of image recovery). David Check out http://www.convar.de for the program pcinspector (it's freeware). This can recover pictures from erased cards. Good luck and keep us informed. ben Hi All Just returned from a "once in a lifetime" holiday and discovered that one of the cards I was using was formatted after download BUT - I failed to check that all the images had been written to the computer before re-formatting the card. The camera is a Nikon D70 (Compact Flash card) and was re-formatted in the camera. Nothing has been done with the card since - no images written to it or anything else. Please can anybody tell me how to recover these images - Maybe a piece of software care of the Web or ........ I live in Lincolnshire UK if I really have to pay someone to do it - (:<(( Many thanks in advance for all help, I appreciate it. O.N I'm also interested in this subject although I haven't (yet, and hopefully) never had this happen to me, but would like to add that write-protecting the memory card (that's possible with a CF card I hope) is probably a good idea to be sure nothing happens to it. At least with computers I've heard that it's a good idea to never work on the original, but copy the data over to something else. I bought a Sandisk 1GByte "Ultra II" CF card recently, but there was no software with it. I believe however that there was mention of a program you could download a demo of and purchase later. Is there any free compact-flash related software like this (or other useful utilites) available for the Mac? > I'm also interested in this subject although I haven't (yet, and > hopefully) never had this happen to me, but would like to add that > write-protecting the memory card (that's possible with a CF card I > hope) No. SD, yes, but not CF. Greg Go to Versiontracker.com and lookup ImageRecall. I think it is freeware. It worked beautifully for me. Gene > I'm also interested in this subject although I haven't (yet, and > hopefully) never had this happen to me, but would like to add that [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Is there any free compact-flash related software like this (or other > useful utilites) available for the Mac? > Go to Versiontracker.com and lookup ImageRecall. I think it is > freeware. It worked beautifully for me. Thanks. I've downloaded and tried it out. Looks like a nice program, but it's not freeware although I believe it lets you recover 10 images without registering, just to see if it actually works. > I bought a Sandisk 1GByte "Ultra II" CF card recently, but there was no > software with it. I believe however that there was mention of a program > you could download a demo of and purchase later. I bought a Sandisk 1GByte "Ultra II" CF card some months ago. It came with the "rescue" disk, I bought one some days ago. It came without one. -Michael > I'm also interested in this subject although I haven't (yet, and > hopefully) never had this happen to me, but would like to add that [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Is there any free compact-flash related software like this (or other > useful utilites) available for the Mac? SanDisk has obviously changed their marketing. I just bought a SanDisk Extreme III one-gig CF card and it includes a CD containing Rescue Pro, a file recovery utility that's $40 standalone on the Sandisk website. My one gig CF card (with Recue Pro) will cost $59.95 after an instore Circuit City rebate and a mail-in rebate. Sale and rebates last just a week in stores and on website. I tried a few different apps and found this one the best: http://www.photoone.net/download.asp You can use the trial version to see if it finds your images before purchasing it. Toby Hi All Just returned from a "once in a lifetime" holiday and discovered that one of the cards I was using was formatted after download BUT - I failed to check that all the images had been written to the computer before re-formatting the card. The camera is a Nikon D70 (Compact Flash card) and was re-formatted in the camera. Nothing has been done with the card since - no images written to it or anything else. Please can anybody tell me how to recover these images - Maybe a piece of software care of the Web or ........ I live in Lincolnshire UK if I really have to pay someone to do it - (:<(( Many thanks in advance for all help, I appreciate it. O.N Well, I have a D70 and a D70s and use SanDisk, CompactFlash cards. Before I had the D70s, I would reformat to erase all the photos from the card by formatting. The D70s will not erase the photos by formatting. I have to delete all the photos first, and then format the card. This seems strange, but it must be an improvement in the D70s to keep from accidently erasing photos. If not an improvement then there is something wrong with my D70s. I can't seem to find anything about this feature in the D70s Manual by quickly browsing the manual. Bob I tried a few different apps and found this one the best: http://www.photoone.net/download.asp You can use the trial version to see if it finds your images before purchasing it. Toby "Ono Notim" <nospam@thisaddress.please> wrote in message news:44b5593f$0$4389$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk... Hi All Just returned from a "once in a lifetime" holiday and discovered that one of the cards I was using was formatted after download BUT - I failed to check that all the images had been written to the computer before re-formatting the card. The camera is a Nikon D70 (Compact Flash card) and was re-formatted in the camera. Nothing has been done with the card since - no images written to it or anything else. Please can anybody tell me how to recover these images - Maybe a piece of software care of the Web or ........ I live in Lincolnshire UK if I really have to pay someone to do it - (:<(( Many thanks in advance for all help, I appreciate it. O.N Strange - my D70s will format a card which has photos on - its the easiest way to delete all the photos. Mark Harrington Well, I have a D70 and a D70s and use SanDisk, CompactFlash cards. Before I had the D70s, I would reformat to erase all the photos from the card by formatting. The D70s will not erase the photos by formatting. I have to delete all the photos first, and then format the card. This seems strange, but it must be an improvement in the D70s to keep from accidently erasing photos. If not an improvement then there is something wrong with my D70s. I can't seem to find anything about this feature in the D70s Manual by quickly browsing the manual. Bob "Toby" <kymarto123@ybb.ne.jpp> wrote in message news:44b5958f$0$65957$bb4e3ad8@newscene.com... I tried a few different apps and found this one the best: http://www.photoone.net/download.asp You can use the trial version to see if it finds your images before purchasing it. Toby "Ono Notim" <nospam@thisaddress.please> wrote in message news:44b5593f$0$4389$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk... Hi All Just returned from a "once in a lifetime" holiday and discovered that one of the cards I was using was formatted after download BUT - I failed to check that all the images had been written to the computer before re-formatting the card. The camera is a Nikon D70 (Compact Flash card) and was re-formatted in the camera. Nothing has been done with the card since - no images written to it or anything else. Please can anybody tell me how to recover these images - Maybe a piece of software care of the Web or ........ I live in Lincolnshire UK if I really have to pay someone to do it - (:<(( Many thanks in advance for all help, I appreciate it. O.N. According to Mark Harrington <nospam@nospam.com>: > Mark Harrington > > Well, >>> I have a D70 and a D70s and use SanDisk, CompactFlash cards. >>> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >> erasing photos. If not an improvement then there is something wrong with my D70s. I can't >> seem to find anything about this feature in the D70s Manual by quickly browsing the manual. [ ... ] > Strange - my D70s will format a card which has photos on - its the easiest way to delete all > the photos. Is it perhaps that there was a "protected" image in the card? IIRC, it is supposed to refuse to format when there is a "protected" image present. Good luck, DoN.  SignatureEmail: <dnichols@d-and-d.com> | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- > Hi All > Just returned from a "once in a lifetime" holiday and discovered that one of the cards I was using was formatted after download BUT - I failed to check that all the images had been written to the computer before re-formatting the card. > The camera is a Nikon D70 (Compact Flash card) and was re-formatted in the camera. Nothing has been done with the card since - no images written to it or anything else. > Please can anybody tell me how to recover these images - Maybe a piece of software care of the Web or ........ I live in Lincolnshire UK if I really have to pay someone to do it - (:<(( Any of the recovery utilities that come with the card should be able to get your images back. They will not have the name that the camera gave them. I have used the free utilities that come with cards, but none of them are as good as PhotoRescue Pro. It has a great interface, gives a decent sized preview of the recovered file, understands RAW files well, and it is fairly inexpensive. It will recover huge numbers of photos even if you think you have filled the card up again and re-formatted after that. I have seen it recover years-old photos from cards that I had taken thousands of photos on since. http://www.recovermyphotos.com/ this one works too. Jean Hi All Just returned from a "once in a lifetime" holiday and discovered that one of the cards I was using was formatted after download BUT - I failed to check that all the images had been written to the computer before re-formatting the card. The camera is a Nikon D70 (Compact Flash card) and was re-formatted in the camera. Nothing has been done with the card since - no images written to it or anything else. Please can anybody tell me how to recover these images - Maybe a piece of software care of the Web or ........ I live in Lincolnshire UK if I really have to pay someone to do it - (:<(( Many thanks in advance for all help, I appreciate it. O.N. |
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