XD corrupt card-help required

pigeonpants

Just back from Holiday and our digital camera (Olympus FE160) with 2 GB xd card keeps requesting formatting when powered up and our pictures appear lost.
I am sure it is possible to recover the holiday pics with a recovery programme, can anyone help in suggesting or recommending one many thanks in anticipation.

Dave

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pigeonpants wrote: »

Just back from Holiday and our digital camera (Olympus FE160) with 2 GB xd card keeps requesting formatting when powered up and our pictures appear lost.
I am sure it is possible to recover the holiday pics with a recovery programme, can anyone help in suggesting or recommending one many thanks in anticipation.

Dave

Try "Recuva".

pigeonpants

Thanks for that have tried it and no joy I am afraid.

aliEnRIK

If RECUVA cant get them, then your probably out of luck im afraid. Whats the make of SD card?

pigeonpants

it is an XD card
I have just used stella pheonix photo recovery scan (via google) and it has recovered all 153 photos but the freeware only covers the scan ( i can now see thumbnails of each photo) for me to save them I have to register and pay 49 Can $ (approx £25) so now looking for a freeware version

aliEnRIK

If that finds them, im shocked if RECUVA doesnt! Are you sure youve used RECUVA correctly?

pigeonpants

going to try again now in case of user error!

dvon9

I am having same holiday pic problem with my xd card (olympus C25 camera) and posted a note the other day but I didnt get any assistance on that thread so will follow yours with hope! - Mine says "clean card" "format" but I don't want to format in case that is a defo loss. I tried PC Inspector Smart Recovery yesterday (suggest you do this in intensive mode from the menu at top. I did mine from the wizard and after 3 hours it found nothing but then it suggested I use the intensive mode (for another 3 hours!) and it found 143 jpeg files but I can only see about 30 of these in thumbnail view - however, when I tried to look via slide show the image fails to show. It might be worth you trying this free software you might have more look than me.
I have just tried the recuva also and it has retried 1 file (thumbnail view) - but again only shows half pic in slide show view.
anyone else tried any free software that might work please.
the 143 files are jpeg files and are quite large - they don't appear to open with the normal opening programmes - is there anything that would open jpeg. even the files without a thumbnail are showing as quite large files so it looks like there is something there..????

pigeonpants

nope "unable to read boot sector" and wont complete scan

pigeonpants

ok i have manged to recover all bar 6 of the 158 photos for free using EASEUS data recovery free edition (http://www.easeus.com/download.htm) this gives up to 1 GB of free data recovery.
I used the partition recovery and saved the photos to my hard drive from the XD card using a card reader.
So now very happy that the holiday photos are safe.
Hope this helps others

dvon9

EASEUS
PC SMART INSPECTOR
RECUVA

None of these worked for me - they recovered same files in thumbnail view but none of them would view in slide show (full screen) without showing signs of corruption within the files.
The best one I used (recovered same files above) but can be viewed (and hopefully loaded onto facebook) was PhotoRec 6.10 which I found on the cnet.com site (sorry unable to give link)
Although the only thing with this is that it is a MS-DOS app so it is not user friendly interface. I'm defo no techie and I managed it!