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Just gone to upload some holiday pics, and about 300 of them are corrupted.

Any suggestions as to what I might use to recover them?

I fully expect this thread to be resurrected again in about 4 years time btw by a spammer, but if any of you guys can help before then I`d be grateful.

Cheers.

There was one recommended in my borked hard drive thread by Miles (IIRC Photorec?) that`s free and specifically designed for photos.

BUT if they`re corrupted I think you might be outta luck :-/ 

Jimbo : oÞ

"There`s that word again... is there a problem with the Earth`s gravitational pull in the future?"

are you connecting camera to computer, or putting card in a reader? May be worth trying both methods?

I think I may have somehting at home which came with a sandisk extreme memory card, will have a look when I get home.

It does depend on what you mean by corrupted.
I think it was Piriform`s "Recuva" that I recommended for you Jim.

Are they corrupted once you copy to computer, or if you view them on camera or both?

Is the file format corrupted or do they contain scenes of corruption?


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Think they`re lost tbh. We copied them over from the camera to the laptop, then moved them to the flash card while we were away to make room for more, and shortly after the laptop blue screened, so my suspicion is the laptop was struggling already and knackered the files.

I`ll have a play though, see if I can get any of them back. Cheers for the advice.

Slim chance you might get some back from the flash card too. Ones overwritten by new info/pics will be gone probably, but any that were still in unused space on the card might recover as "deleted"

It`s worth a go especially as cards don`t take too long due to their smallish size compared to a hard drive.

Jimbo : oÞ

"There`s that word again... is there a problem with the Earth`s gravitational pull in the future?"

Managed to recover a small handful from the SD card, using CardRecovery 5.30 - it`s better than nothing, and they were some of the ones I was quite gutted to have lost.

Gonna have another go with the flash drive now, see if that pulls out anything new.

As an idea, you could image the SD card to a vhd, and then you can still use the SD card not worrying about wiping it, whilst running any recovery software you fancy trying on the vhd in a VM.


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