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15-07-2009, 07:47 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Shropshire
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| | | Help with a memory card that won't give up its contents
Can anyone give me some advice over what to do with a memory card that won't upload its contents? Is there somewhere I can send the memory card, some techy place where they'll know what to do? I've tried the card in three different cameras and on two computers, so it's definitely the card that's playing up. I just get a message on the PC screen that says the images can't be removed from the device.
(Camera is an EasyShare Z1015 IS, and the memory card is a SanDisk 8GB)
I'd be really grateful for help, because as well as my water vole shots, there are videos of my son's school play.  |
15-07-2009, 07:56 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Scotland/Spain
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| | | Re: Help with a memory card that won't give up its contents
Kate, you can buy or download freeware data recovery software that will get your data back. I am sure there was a thread on this a while ago but I bet a few of our members will tell you which software to use. 
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15-07-2009, 07:58 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Suffolk Coast
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| | | Re: Help with a memory card that won't give up its contents
What does "my computer" say is on the card?
I bought a copy of
"ParetoLogic Data Recovery Pro"
in the pst and three times it has done the business on compact flash cards.
Only one of them was mine!!! |
15-07-2009, 08:16 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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| | | Re: Help with a memory card that won't give up its contents
You haven't by any chance moved the little slider on the side of the card to "lock"? |
15-07-2009, 08:24 PM
|  | Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Belvedere, Kent
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| | | Re: Help with a memory card that won't give up its contents
Lexar are currently offering ImageRescue 3 for free. The offer is supposed to be for people who have recently bought a Lexar memory card but (I'll say this very quietly) the download page on their website does not require any proof of purchase, only an email address.
Go to http://store.lexar.com/imagerescue3/ and give it a try.
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15-07-2009, 08:52 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Shropshire
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| | | Re: Help with a memory card that won't give up its contents
Thanks so much. I'll investigate.
Woodman, I thought you might have solved it, but when I went to get my reading glasses the slider was in the right position, alas! |
15-07-2009, 09:03 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Shropshire
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| | | Re: Help with a memory card that won't give up its contents
OK, I've downloaded the Lexar software, but it's saying 'please insert memory card into a reader', and I don't know what that is. At the moment it's in my camera, hooked up and still failing to transfer across. Any thoughts? |
15-07-2009, 09:12 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sheffield, FPRSY
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| | | Re: Help with a memory card that won't give up its contents
I think that many problems of this kind are caused by people being too "technical". Special programmes are not needed - you can transfer using Windows.
Sandisc flashcards will fit into a connector to your USB port or your camera connection will fit into the USB; your computer should recognise them as an 'external drive' - click on 'My Computer'. You should find something such as 'external drive' , 'USBI drive' D, E or whatever .... If you then click on that 'drive' you should see your photo files which you can copy and paste as normal ....
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15-07-2009, 09:13 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Outer Mongolia
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| | | Re: Help with a memory card that won't give up its contents
Quote:
Originally Posted by vole-woman  OK, I've downloaded the Lexar software, but it's saying 'please insert memory card into a reader', and I don't know what that is. At the moment it's in my camera, hooked up and still failing to transfer across. Any thoughts? |
Its asking you to take the memory card out of the camera and connect it directly to your computer. This means putting the card ito a "Reader" which is usually a USB connector with a socket that the card plugs into. If you do not have a Reader this software is not going to work.
USB card readers are very cheap, and are generally a much faster way of getting your photos from your cards to your computer, so worth having anyway. I would go and buy one tomorrow.
Tescos, PC World, Dixons, all those kind of places will have them for about a fiver.
Good luck. |
15-07-2009, 09:30 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Shropshire
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| | | Re: Help with a memory card that won't give up its contents
Ah, that sounds like what I need to do, then. I'll get to Tesco in the morning,
Thanks to everyone for your help. | | | |
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