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Recover Photos from corrupt SD Card

raysophie

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Posted May 17, 2011 at 9:06AM

I have a 2gb SD card which has photos on it . I inserted it into the wrong slot on my card reader and it must have blown up card. When I put it in the correct slot the small indicator light flashes but the computer cannot read it, when in the camera it says 'Memory Card Error Please check the card' I tried a recovery program from the internet which scanned the card and said there were no recoverable files,(when I uninstalled this program it messed up my computer so am reluctant to try any others. Is there any way that these photos can be recovered ? Thanks Ray

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raysophie

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Posted May 17, 2011 at 11:29AM

Thanks tried this but unable to read 'J' drive which has the SD carc in it, read all other drives OK.

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Terry Brown

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Posted May 17, 2011 at 2:34PM

I assume you have tried to read it from the camera?

If the photo's are important to you, you may have to go to a shop (like Jessops)and ask them to recover them for you, however there will be a charge- How much - No Idea, Ask.

Terry

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raysophie

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Posted May 17, 2011 at 8:06PM

Will try Jessops tomorrow but do ot hold out too much hope as I cannot read card on camera or computer, did read somewhere that the card can be take to bits and read but that does seem a bit of an absolute last resort.

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daz60

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Posted May 17, 2011 at 10:44PM

I wonder if you can look into these. Never tried them myself but they look useful. link text

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advantage is they are not installed on your machine.

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Sapins

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Posted May 29, 2011 at 8:49PM

I have used this with some success, it's free and Norton has scanned it and declared it OK.

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Nontek

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Posted May 31, 2011 at 1:02PM

This little direct download is generally excellent at recovering images from cards, exactly what it was intended for.

http://www.rcc-ltd.co.uk/CampicRestor.zip

Recovered images can be found in the programs own folder, or you could create a New Folder on your Desktop and direct the program to use that new folder as the Destination.

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iscanut2

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Posted May 31, 2011 at 7:53PM

Were Jessops of any help ?

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