XD Card troubles

sleepystar1975

Hi There

I am hoping you can help me.
I have an Olympus 2GB XD card I have been using in my Fuji Camera. I even used it today without any problems.
I went to upload some pictures from it this evening, but the computer was saying there was no supported images available.
When I switch the camera on, it tells me to do one of two things, clean the terminals on the card, or format the card. I have gently cleaned the metal contact parts with a dry,soft cloth, and it still comes up with this error message.
The camera and card have suffered no knocks or trauma. It's stored in a hard protective case, and well out of reach of my enthusiastic little girl.
How can I restore this card without loosing any precious photos? I hope you can help me, as I would be so upset to lose these memories.
Obviously a quick google brings up lots of options to buy programmes to retrieve data, but can they do it? And if so, which programme is any good?
I hope someone can give me some hope.

Thanks for reading

Laura

santer_2

Recuva

Restores files from removable media (SmartMedia, Secure Digital, MemoryStick, Digital cameras, Floppy disks, Jaz Disks, Sony Memory Sticks, Compact Flash cards, Smart Media Cards, Secure Digital Cards, etc.

Freeware

http://filehippo.com/download_recuva/

sleepystar1975

Thank-You Santer, I am just downloading that to try now.

Double thank-you for recommending free-ware, not the pricey £50+ products google found