Dead SDHC card?
raymartin01
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I was checking out a vid I had recorded on my camera yesterday when the battery failed. I replaced the battery with a fresh one, but got an error message saying the memory card was unusable! I tried taking the card out and replacing it carefully but no joy. When I put it in my card reader it says there is no card in the drive. Have I lost the photos on the card, or does anybody know a way to retrieve them?
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If you find something that will read the card, but can't see your images and videos, there's plenty of software out there that will do a pretty good job of trying to recover them. Recently I've been using Photorecovery which works very well (it will scan the card and tell you what can be recovered, if you want to do the recovery you pay for the software). In the past I've also used Photorescue - that might be useful if you can't see the card on any reader/pc, as it has a mode where it tries to access the card at a lower level than Windows does. Same deal as Photorecovery, to get your data back you have to buy the software.
There is also a free image recovery program I've had for years called Digital Image Recovery, but as you can imagine searching for that term on Google hasn't turned up anything useful - it's got a link to http://www.foto-erhardt.de, but my German isn't up to much.
Depending how important the stuff on the card is, there are also companies out there that can recover data from almost any scenario, however this obviously costs...
Unfortunately, that program has been replaced with Don't Panic and, to quote from the manual:
**Readable State = The card is accessible through ‘My Computer’ in Windows. If your PC hangs when you try and
access the drive or if your presented with ‘Please Insert a disk in drive’ then the card is not readable and Don’t Panic
will not be able to recover the data.
Unfortunately there are many fake cards knocking about on EBay especially the Hong Kong sellers, I've been done twice
What they do is flash the card to report a bigger size and at the first sign of any problems or you try to reformat it it dies.
Unfortunately EBay doesn't care about people selling fakes via their website.