Help with fujifilm camera

natanddan1

Hi
Just got back off holiday to Sri Lanka, i took loads of photos on my Fuji Film A500 digital camera using a fujifim 1 gb XD card. I have had no problems with loading the photos onto my laptop until i tried to download the last set of 58 pictures. It would only display 2 photos on the laptop. Know when i turn the camera on it says 'Error card not initialized' and i cannot view any photos.
Can anyone help or advise what to do as i would be really upset if i have lost some of the photos.

f1charlie

Try this:

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

Are you trying to download the pictures directly from the camera or via a card reader? Note this:

"Can I recover my pictures direct from the digital camera?
Answer: This depends on the camera. PC INSPECTOR™ smart recovery RECOVERY uses a logical drive letter to access the memory card. If your camera allows you to access the memory device in this way, then you can use PC INSPECTOR™ smart recovery to recover the files directly from the camera."

HARDM2000

It is all dependent how you are accessing the files as the previous poster states if your doing it direct through the camera trying it through a card reader may just solve the problem. if not as the previous poster states try using recovery software, your still stuck let me know as i had one which had a free trial.

natanddan1

Many thanks for the advise, i hve tried downloading to the pc throught he camera but it won,t down load. I have also put the XD card straight in the card reader on my pc, although it displays all the photos, when i try and save them to the pc it comes up with ' incorrect parameters'

I will try the software posted and let you know how i get on.

natanddan1

hi
managed to get 29 out of 58 photographs off the memory card. Very pleased but it did not find the additional photos that i was really wanting.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks to the replyers though

f1charlie

There's a selection of file recovery tools here:

http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.html

A bit tedious but it might be worth trying these one by one.