URGENT! My kodak memory card is saying it needs formatting, but I will lose all pics

Lucyxx

totalsolutions wrote: »

Hi Lucy

Try to do it yourself with all the help and suggestions here.

Why not do it on another card, borrow or buy a small capacity card, put some piccys on it and generally delete them and use the recovery programs and learn how to do it first then use the corrupted card and get them back?

Good luck, Lucy.

opps only read the first page, not the second....

Anyway do you still have the harddrive that you say failed with other pics on it, these can be recovered too you know?

Not to worry, that is a really good idea actually, I might have a go at that, but I'm not sure how to cause the fault that the original one had to practice recovering those, but I could certainly learn how to recover deleted pics in the case of it happening again in the future and also I'd be able to help out friends if it happened to them. :beer:

This is the harddrive that the videos was lost from, but it was well over a year ago - i wish I had thought to try something like looking on here at the time, you live and learn! It was a major system crash and everything had to be reloaded from scratch, I can't give a definite date it happened, my memory is terrible due to sleep deprivation!!!

espresso

Lucyxx wrote: »

I'll keep in touch xxxxxxx

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fergual2

Actually on holiday I had a card that could not be read in a Kodak print shop when time to print. Shop offered to try a recovery for about £40. I said I would try again myself. Then took it to an independent kiosk CD burning machine next day - card was fine, CD burnt fine - so Kodak's shop equipment was at fault!!!
Recovery options....
First steps are to reboot machine. Try with card in camera. Try with card in card reader. Try with different PC (Friends etc). Try in a shop card reader (Boots etc). Try recovery software.
I use Sandisk cards which comes with it's own recovery software disc - but have never needed to use - but is reassuring to have.
Based on other comments with problems with Kodak SD cards. I would say switch brands and save future hassle. These cards are very cheap now - and buying a good brand gives peace of mind with something so valuable. Also better to buy several smaller cards e.g. 1GB 2GB than 1 huge one then if one fails you still have pics on the others - e.g. you don't lose everything.

Good luck with your recovery
Al