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nickliv

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Help. Corrupt CF card.
« on: June 18, 2008, 07:52:53 pm »
To quote Andy Zarse, BASTARD BASTARD BASTARD

My big (4 GB) CF card is corrupt, I can view some images on the camera, but accessing them takes for ever, and I CAN'T transfer them to the computer.

I don't have a dedicated CF reader as yet, (Should arrive on Fri) but in the meantime, is there anything I can try?

Cheers

Nick

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Re: Help. Corrupt CF card.
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2008, 08:01:43 pm »
There are quite a few CF card 'repair' gadgets but they all rely on direct access to the card, so you'll need to wait for the reader. I've manage to fix corrupted cards quite a few times and generally I go and download whatever repair tools are offered by that specific CF card manufacturer.

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Re: Help. Corrupt CF card.
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2008, 10:19:10 pm »
You will need a card reader and then a photo recovery program.

In all likelyhood you will have to pay for it, unless you're lucky; but I am only thinking £20.

Won't recommend anything as I'm on Mac OS X so uncertain of Windoze progs.

Thought I'd lost all of my pics of Prague but easily recovered them.

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Re: Help. Corrupt CF card.
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2008, 01:41:19 pm »
Be aware this could take up to 24 hours to sort - I had a 1gb card that bailed on me completely, and it took 5 hours to recover the data photo by photo.....

Good luck mate!
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Re: Help. Corrupt CF card.
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2008, 10:57:44 pm »
Success (Of sorts)

Now I have a CF reader, the photos of the kids on the card have moved over to the computer without too much hassle (It's these ones I really wanted) and the LM ones may, or may not be unaffected.

Thanks for the pointers / encouragement etc.

I'll post the best LM pics (If indeed I get any) when I get them off the card. (My photography is very much a 'percentage' game. But then I did take over 1200 pics this LM)

If I get a dozen decent ones that will wear blowing up, I'll be a very happy man. Particularly if some of the group C's are worth keeping.
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