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JzeroT1437
03-27-2008, 06:44 PM
Okay, so I went on a trip to San Francisco, took about 300+ pics on my Kingston card, then the batteries died. Afterwards it said that the card was full, yet when I tried to review the photos, the buffer light would flash for a while before returning with "No Images". Looking through the format option, I found that it recognized 890 Mb currently being used. I DID NOT format.

Now that I'm home, my computer won't even read the card. When I insert it into my computer's SD slot, the autoplay buffer box comes onto the screen, then nothing. I try exploring it only to find that it doesn't recognize the card to even be present.

Anybody have help/suggestions?
David Metsky
03-29-2008, 09:37 AM
Bad things can happen when your batteries die during a write to the memory card. You probably ended up with corruption on the card and it will have to be reformatted to fully recover.

Do you have an external USB card reader? If someone you know has one, try that, and then run some of the file recovery software that's available on the net for free. They might be able to recover many/most of your photos before you end up going down the reformat route.
JzeroT1437
03-31-2008, 08:42 PM
Nothing will read the card. Not USB card readers, internal card readers, or USB through the camera itself. What are the chances of data recovery after formatting? Is it 0?
David Metsky
03-31-2008, 09:48 PM
If you really want to get the data off the card try bringing it to professionals. It'll be expensive, but it's your best chance to save the photos.
K1W1
04-17-2008, 04:00 PM
Nothing will read the card. Not USB card readers, internal card readers, or USB through the camera itself. What are the chances of data recovery after formatting? Is it 0?


Lets just work on some definitions first.
When you say nothing will read the card do you mean nothing will read the card OR Windows will not recognise the card. Can you go to "My Computer" and see the card as being in the reader slot?

If Windows can see the card you have a fairly good chance of recovering the data using one of the many data recovery programs that are around. Do a Google Search on "Photo recovery" or "file recovery" and you will see heaps of programs, some free some you pay for. I have previously used "Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery 3.0" which is free with very good results.