Please help - lost data

tigs78

Please help me, I said that I'd copy some pictures from the memory card of my friends camera to a CD for them. They were really important pictures.

I started to copy them (everything was working fine and a few minutes earlier I successfully copied my own pictures from a different memory card). There were about 70 pictures and at approx picture 21 it froze and said something like 'unable to copy' there were several options but I chose to skip that pic. I thought it was because that was probably a video clip rather than a photo but it did it again on the next one so I clicked cancel.

Now when I put the memory card in the reader the normal 'what do you want to do with this' box doesn't pop up but a folder named something like the name of the camera which is empty anyway. I put the card back in the camera and it's empty - there are no pictures.

The camera is an Olympus C-220zoom and the card reader is a Belkin. I run Windows XP.

Is there anyway I can get these pictures back, I can't stress how important they were. Thanks in advance for any help.

jack_daniels_2

Try http://www.pcinspector.de/smart_media_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

albertross_2

http://www.pcinspector.de/smart_media_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

snap!

jack_daniels_2

Ooooh my first snap

tigs78

Thanks, trying it now....

albertross_2

If you have a safely remove hardware icon on the bottom right, use that before pulling the card out, it could cause corruption if the pc is still accessing the card when you pull it out.

This might work if the other utility doesn't.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

tigs78

Thankyou SO much, I now have safely retrieved all 72 photos using the pcinspector software. I am eternally grateful

tigs78

OOh, and thanks for that safely remove hardware tip, never used that before but will do EVERY time now. Thanks again to all for their help, much appreciated!