On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 19:36 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Iain Buchanan <iai...@netspace.net.au> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > recently my SD card just went bonkers. Unfortunately I lost a lot of > > photos on it (backups are useless until the data actually gets to the > > backup...) but fortunately I was able to use a program to recover about > > 170 photos. > > > > Anyway, I don't know if it was just static, shock, dead card, or phase > > of the moon, so I would like to see if the card is good before I > > continue to use it. > > With any kind of memory or storage device, I would stop using after > the first sign of a problem. My personal experience says it only gets > worse. :) > > Lexar has a free program for recovering corrupted/deleted files from > their cards, did you use that? Or something linux-based like photorec? > Anyway, you wrote over it so it's too late now. :)
Now you tell me there are free versions?! I ended up finding a photo recovery tool which recovered the photos for me, but it wasn't "free". Needless to say I didn't pay for it, and I deleted it straight away. I'll check out photorec next time. I'm having a hard time finding info about it though (see previous email about draconian internet access). Is there a general linux version of FAT recovery tools available somewhere? I couldn't find one. [sinp] > Some (all?) memory cards do wear-leveling/load balancing This is what I was afraid of. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Beware the new TTY code!
