any sd card or it experts about?? help please

the naturelover · #1 (**permalink**) 01-10-2010, 06:00 PM

Hi. I recently spent a few weeks in cornwall. As a precaution after I had downloaded my pics to a laptop. I left the files on the sd card im my camera as a backup instead of deleteing them. the last two days worth about 1000 pics seemed ok. i even played some back to my son on the camera. however when i tried to download them to the laptop all i got was error messages. either files were corrupt or unreadable. i have tried to download them to my desktop now im home but still the same. i cant even view them on my camera now. the files all appear to be normal size for my pics ie 2.4 mb. the card has plenty of capacity its a 16gb sdhc.
my camera is a fuji finepix s1000sd.
Can anyone suggest how i can retrieve these pics ie is there any software i can load or a technique i can use or are they permantly lost.
appologies for the length of this post but any help would be gratefully appreciated. regards tn.

Simples · #2 (**permalink**) 01-10-2010, 07:18 PM

SDHC cards are notorious for incompatibility issues and can appear to be fine one minute and not the next. Google 'card recovery' or 'file recovery' and there are dozens of free programs for recovering files, but you can only recover as long as they have not been over-written, or corrupted due to bad handling or faulty hardware. If you have a Sandisk card then you can download their free RescuePro software, which I've found works well.

Jim Ford · #3 (**permalink**) 01-10-2010, 08:01 PM

'ZAR' - Zero Assumption Recovery is the best I've met. You can download a free (but restricted version) here:

Digital image recovery - ZAR usage demo

Jim

the naturelover · #4 (**permalink**) 01-10-2010, 10:43 PM

many thanks both i will give it a try. i realy hope it works or ive lost some great shots. he ho regards tn.

nightshade · #5 (**permalink**) 02-10-2010, 06:08 AM

Treat yourself to another card (or two) always reformat in the camera after deleting a batch this can reduce the chances of corrupting the card.
After reformatting try the card with unimportant photos equal to the previously corrupted number, any corruption or problems, scrap the card. Always buy good brands

Hobjob · #6 (**permalink**) 02-10-2010, 11:09 AM

Data Recovery Professional - Parietologic
Will cost you a few bob.

Has saved me a couple of times.

Also you may have problems if you load lots of pictures into the root of a memory card; there is some limit to the number of files. Needs to go into a directory.
Took me ages to work this out when I did this on an electric photoframe.

Markulous · #7 (**permalink**) 08-10-2010, 11:16 AM

You don't say how you're trying to download them but it would be worth trying direct connect to camera and a cardreader. For the latter, always make sure it can read SDHC and not just SD (2GB or less than 2GB cards are SD) - you get errors exactly as you've had reading an SDHC card in an SD slot!