Handsome reward for anyone who can fix 512mb CF card

[princejoe77]

Dear All,
I have some very important photos take with my digital camera and are stored in a 512mb CF card. Unfortunately, while I was trying to download the photos, the CF card was deemed unreadable. I'm looking for anyone who can sincerely help me recover my photos from the CF card. It's still under warranty, but I'd rather have my photos than a new card. Pls sms me at 94885334 if you can help. Thanks.

 

[ashbaby]

Man... if accident deleting still possible to use some tools.
I think for your case you need to go to those data recovery
services for help. And they can be quite ex.

 

[ckiang]

Dear All,
I have some very important photos take with my digital camera and are stored in a 512mb CF card. Unfortunately, while I was trying to download the photos, the CF card was deemed unreadable. I'm looking for anyone who can sincerely help me recover my photos from the CF card. It's still under warranty, but I'd rather have my photos than a new card. Pls sms me at 94885334 if you can help. Thanks.

I feel your pain. I lost almost a gig of pics when the notebook I use to store them while on a business trip died for no reason. The notebook has no CD/DVD writer. I still have the dead harddisk in hope that one day I can recover the images.

I am not sure if this helps, go to http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/ and download the evaluation copy of PhotoRescue. If you are successfully able to retrieve them, buy the full version. At US$30, it sure is worth it if the photos are important.

Regards
CK

 

[ledmirage]

I feel your pain. I lost almost a gig of pics when the notebook I use to store them while on a business trip died for no reason. The notebook has no CD/DVD writer. I still have the dead harddisk in hope that one day I can recover the images.

I am not sure if this helps, go to http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/ and download the evaluation copy of PhotoRescue. If you are successfully able to retrieve them, buy the full version. At US$30, it sure is worth it if the photos are important.

Regards
CK

Actually i wonder if there is any free software solution out there ?

i was so fed up seaching for it and find out all need some kind of registration fee ... so end up i wrote a simple program on my own to recover the photos ...

 

[bangkuangz]

Dear All,
I have some very important photos take with my digital camera and are stored in a 512mb CF card. Unfortunately, while I was trying to download the photos, the CF card was deemed unreadable. I'm looking for anyone who can sincerely help me recover my photos from the CF card. It's still under warranty, but I'd rather have my photos than a new card. Pls sms me at 94885334 if you can help. Thanks.

Is your card still readable IN your digital camera ? Or did you try to use card reader to download your photo?

 

[ckiang]

Actually i wonder if there is any free software solution out there ?

i was so fed up seaching for it and find out all need some kind of registration fee ... so end up i wrote a simple program on my own to recover the photos ...

Not sure if there are free ones, but since you wrote one, you might consider selling it for a small fee. Actually, if the photos are really very important, US$30 is a small fee to pay. I'd gladly pay that amount if anyone can recover that dead harddisk of mine. ;p

Oh yes, of coz, if you bought the more expensive Lexar Pro series of CF cards, they come with Lexar's ImageRescue for free.

Regards
CK

 

[tomcat]

Not sure if there are free ones, but since you wrote one, you might consider selling it for a small fee. Actually, if the photos are really very important, US$30 is a small fee to pay. I'd gladly pay that amount if anyone can recover that dead harddisk of mine. ;p

So does this mean that the US$30 Photorescue didn't work in your case?

 

[wilis128]

Dear All,
I have some very important photos take with my digital camera and are stored in a 512mb CF card. Unfortunately, while I was trying to download the photos, the CF card was deemed unreadable. I'm looking for anyone who can sincerely help me recover my photos from the CF card. It's still under warranty, but I'd rather have my photos than a new card. Pls sms me at 94885334 if you can help. Thanks.

hi dude, you might want to check out this link:

http://www.naturephotosociety.org.sg/dcforum/DCForumID4/242.html

they were using datarescue too and it worked well.

good luck.

 

[kiama]

help on the way, read yr PM

 

[Wai]

I still have the dead harddisk in hope that one day I can recover the images.

dead hard disk?

what happened? no power or cannot boot due to bad sector??

partition table corrupted??

 

[HelmetBox]

Hmmm...

http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthread.php?t=53668&highlight=card

Hope it helps.

 

[togu]

Thread moved to Consumers Corner and Services.

 

[ckiang]

So does this mean that the US$30 Photorescue didn't work in your case?

Well, it's a dead harddisk. Photo Rescue won't work if the media cannot be recognized.

Regards
CK

 

[ckiang]

dead hard disk?

what happened? no power or cannot boot due to bad sector??

partition table corrupted??

The thing still spins, but cannot be recognized by the BIOS. Replaced PCB from another same-model harddisk, no help and destroyed the original PCB in the process ;p.

Regards
CK

 

[HelmetBox]

Well, it's a dead harddisk. Photo Rescue won't work if the media cannot be recognized.

Regards
CK

if you have lots of $$ to spare, you can send the harddisk back to its manufacturer and let them recover it for you.

My friend had a totally crashed harddisk (literally components in pieces) which he was able to recover more than 80% of the data at a cost of about $900. Yeah, the data was THAT important to him.

 

[ckiang]

if you have lots of $$ to spare, you can send the harddisk back to its manufacturer and let them recover it for you.

My friend had a totally crashed harddisk (literally components in pieces) which he was able to recover more than 80% of the data at a cost of about $900. Yeah, the data was THAT important to him.

I checked the harddisk manufacturer's website (Fujitsu) and they said they don't do data recovery. 3rd party companies probably charge a lot as well. For me, the images are not that critical. $900 can probably fly me to that location again.

For memory cards, as long as your PC can still read the thing, chances of recovery are high (esp. for those who accidentally format/delete images). Using PhotoRescue I have managed to retrieve about a third of those images I lost in the harddisk crash (but still in the formatted/half overwritten CF cards).

Regards
CK

 

[chriszzz]

There are freeware software that can recover the pictures, specifically targetted at digital camera media. You can try Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery and PC Inspector Smart Recovery, both of which are free. I've never used them, so I'm not sure if they are effective though. There are of course other software you can try. You can get them at www.webattack.com.

 

[Julian]

Don't mean to rub it in... but this is another reason why people should buy Lexar Media Card

 

[manaztech]

Dear All,
I have some very important photos take with my digital camera and are stored in a 512mb CF card. Unfortunately, while I was trying to download the photos, the CF card was deemed unreadable. I'm looking for anyone who can sincerely help me recover my photos from the CF card. It's still under warranty, but I'd rather have my photos than a new card. Pls sms me at 94885334 if you can help. Thanks.

hi princejoe77, do you still need help ? i can try my best to retrieve the photoes for you, & the reward is not necessary.

sms 93588243

 

[Vulpix0r]

Don't mean to rub it in... but this is another reason why people should buy Lexar Media Card

What rubbish is this? All medias have a chance to fail, even if you buy a Lexar. One of them recently had a Lexar fail on them.