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Help recovering from corrupted SD card- please!
creased-leach
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Hi all, I'll give as much pertinent info as I can, in the hope that someone can help...
just back from hols, and one of the first things I do is backup piccies. However, within an hour or two back I viewed them on the laptop- but decided to save them on the desktop as I was going to use the better screen to decide what to print/delete/crop etc as I went...
Switch on Desktop this morning, insert SD- nothing. It doesn't autorun anything, and just doesn't respond. DD then informs me that it's been like that for a while :rolleyes:, but she's been using the cable, and thats ok. So, I look around for the files, fail to find them, and put in the cable instead.
Switch on camera- option only to reformat- yes/no. Toggle to no- and it jumps back to yes. Unplug lead from camera, it will *sometimes* allow no to be selected- but then just reads card error.
Insert card into laptop- doesn't autorun. Select from list, "This card needs to be formatted before you can use it." :cool:
So, next step- search MSE vaults for a related thread. Find one or two related threads. See "Recuva" is reccommended. Install & run. Done on both lappy & PC. Won't play ball on PC. On lappy it says "cannot read the boot sector"- have tried selecting the box to find files that were not deleted, same thing.
So, in short- do I risk formatting & looking again? Will this do anything?
Anyone got any suggestions? I was trying to be good & get it done before any harm could come to the shots I got- so you can imagine how :mad: I am right now.
Helllllp!!
just back from hols, and one of the first things I do is backup piccies. However, within an hour or two back I viewed them on the laptop- but decided to save them on the desktop as I was going to use the better screen to decide what to print/delete/crop etc as I went...
Switch on Desktop this morning, insert SD- nothing. It doesn't autorun anything, and just doesn't respond. DD then informs me that it's been like that for a while :rolleyes:, but she's been using the cable, and thats ok. So, I look around for the files, fail to find them, and put in the cable instead.
Switch on camera- option only to reformat- yes/no. Toggle to no- and it jumps back to yes. Unplug lead from camera, it will *sometimes* allow no to be selected- but then just reads card error.
Insert card into laptop- doesn't autorun. Select from list, "This card needs to be formatted before you can use it." :cool:
So, next step- search MSE vaults for a related thread. Find one or two related threads. See "Recuva" is reccommended. Install & run. Done on both lappy & PC. Won't play ball on PC. On lappy it says "cannot read the boot sector"- have tried selecting the box to find files that were not deleted, same thing.
So, in short- do I risk formatting & looking again? Will this do anything?
Anyone got any suggestions? I was trying to be good & get it done before any harm could come to the shots I got- so you can imagine how :mad: I am right now.
Helllllp!!
Only dead fish go with the flow...
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Reformatting will restore the SD card but wipe any existing data on it.No free lunch, and no free laptop
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Hi- thanks for responding, sorry I vanished but I'd forgotten we had visitors coming over. :rolleyes:
Can you reccommend which one of the ones in the link is more user friendly? The recuva one was easily manageble...but I don't really know my a**e from my elbow! I'll give these things a go- but might get out of my depth pretty quickly...Only dead fish go with the flow...0 -
creased-leach wrote: »Hi- thanks for responding, sorry I vanished but I'd forgotten we had visitors coming over. :rolleyes:
Can you reccommend which one of the ones in the link is more user friendly? The recuva one was easily manageble...but I don't really know my a**e from my elbow! I'll give these things a go- but might get out of my depth pretty quickly...
In that case give Undelete Plus and Restoration a go. Recuva normally is pretty good so I wouldn't want to get your hopes up, but they're worth a go...0
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