Valgear GXT 2gb ultra high speed memory card

[dannystraus]

Just wondering if anyone knows of this cards quality, or any first hand knowledge? thanks dan.

[Thai]

I have the 1gig version. Compared to the Sandisk, they both claim the same speed but I can see that the Sandisk IS faster.

[radek]

i have the same card and it just short-circuited inside of my laptop, part of it melting away and i ended up loosing all the pictures (1 GB worth of pictures), also i have noticed that when i was shooting at High Speed the performace wasn't all that good.

Personally i wouldn't recomment this card to anyone

[PetSavage]

I bought a 2GB GXT ultra high speed SD card in March 2007 and last evening I lost a lot of photos of our high school choir concert. The files showed up in Windows Explorer, but when I tried to transfer them to my computer hard drive only a few would transfer, the rest were corrupted (apparently). I tried everything I could to get the rest of the files, but they would not even show up in Explorer any more. I tried a file recovery program, to no avail. The files have been lost. I am loath to reformat the card at this stage, in case I can recover some of the files using a different card reader or file recovery program. The Futuer Shop website shows quite a few customers who have expereienced the same thing with this brand of SD card. Be warned, do not buy this card!

[JLV]

I bought a 2GB GXT ultra high speed SD card in March 2007 and last evening I lost a lot of photos of our high school choir concert. The files showed up in Windows Explorer, but when I tried to transfer them to my computer hard drive only a few would transfer, the rest were corrupted (apparently). I tried everything I could to get the rest of the files, but they would not even show up in Explorer any more. I tried a file recovery program, to no avail. The files have been lost. I am loath to reformat the card at this stage, in case I can recover some of the files using a different card reader or file recovery program. The Futuer Shop website shows quite a few customers who have expereienced the same thing with this brand of SD card. Be warned, do not buy this card!

I had a similar problem with a 1 GB card. It turned out that the card reader could not read a card of that size. Try it with another reader. Don’t reformat. If the images have been deleted, there is still a good chance at recovery with the right program and card reader.

[r_davey]

I bought a 2GB GXT ultra high speed SD card in March 2007 and last evening I lost a lot of photos of our high school choir concert. The files showed up in Windows Explorer, but when I tried to transfer them to my computer hard drive only a few would transfer, the rest were corrupted (apparently). I tried everything I could to get the rest of the files, but they would not even show up in Explorer any more. I tried a file recovery program, to no avail. The files have been lost. I am loath to reformat the card at this stage, in case I can recover some of the files using a different card reader or file recovery program. The Futuer Shop website shows quite a few customers who have expereienced the same thing with this brand of SD card. Be warned, do not buy this card!

I've have the same card and have had problems with it twice now. Both times when it got to be very close to 50% full. It's probably too late for PetSavage but I've found two different utilites that have saved me.

The first time I had a problem Windows Explorer could open the drive and see two empty directories although properties indicated it had 50% used space and had 936,nnn,nnn bytes free out of 1,8nn,nnn,nnn bytes total space. I searched high and low at the time and tried several different utilities. None of them found everything that I knew was on the card. The one that found the most and everything the others found turned out to be a freeware utility called PC Inspector File Recovery V4.0 availabe at: http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm. It wasn't very easy to use but I managed to get most of my lost photos off.

I've just returned from another expensive vacation with lost photos again. The symptoms were somewhat different this time. When I looked at the card with Windows Explorer it indicated I had 0 bytes free of 0 bytes total space. PC Inspector found nothing. Thinking all might be lost I started searching the web again and found a reference to the cards manufacturer ValGear and a one page website at http://www.valgear.com/ . The support number is either incorrect or out of service but there is a link to a tool called Digital Image Recovery that was very easy to use. It found to the best of my knowlege all the new photos I had taken. It did not find the one video I had taken, but then it was junk anyway.

Now for the good news. After rmy first problem the camera's manufacturer HP recommended I format the card before using it again and I did that. But after this second hiccup when I ran the ValGear utility it not only found the new images but most of the images(or parts of them) from the first problem and most notably the two very important images I knew were on the card that PC Inspector had not found.

I hope this helps someone else who comes across this post! :)


Robin

[Kalman]

I just returned from a 2 week vacation and took hundreds of pictures on my Valgear GXT 2GB ultra high speed memory card with my Canon PowerShot Pro1. Guess what? I plugged the card into the card reader, saw the images briefly with Windows Explorer, then bye-bye.
I removed the card and the system reply with "The disk in drive "f" is not formated ...".

Just like r_davey I tried every free and demo memory card recovery software I could find on the web. PC Inspector smart recovery, CardRecovery, Data doctor, etc, and even I even purchased Photo-Saver. None of the programs would recover even one of the hundreds of photos that I took.

PC Inspector reported that the memory card was ok and had information on it but would not recover any images!

The Digital Image Recovery software read the entire card, found no read errors, but still did not recover any images.

Any ideas?

[rvzodiac]

This card gave great difficulty letting us transfer images to a CD....in Fact of 5 file folders, the contents of one was completely lost....never had a card act this strangely.......and we do a lot of card transfers.