On 24 January 2011 05:08, Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > I got back most of the stuff already, but nothing that I took in January... > good thing I got the photo submitted to the > book and the gallery and up on smugmug. I had accidentally reformatted the > 2 gig cf card in the Pentax - Yes I knew I was reformatting, I jsut forgot > that I had the good stuff on that card.... and that was before the drive > crashed. > > I'll accept crossed fingers... There is some goodnews about my photos but > I'll save that for another post
Good stuff, you mentioned before it worked after you left it unplugged? Something that's not been considered yet is that the external power supply could be on its way out? I have a 500GB Freeagent drive of about the same vintage and it hasn't skipped a beat, no errors and I regularly test it, I have a near new eternal Iomega drive next to me and it's toast and I had a WD enterprise server drive fail the other day. In other words it's a crapshoot, all drives can fail, all you have to do is learn not to trust them! ;-) I always have my data on two drives and when I get enough data to fill a DVD I burn one of those off for safekeeping too, it's tedious but can save you a great deal of heartache later. If you haven't shot on the formatted card yet (or even if you have) there are a few programs that you can run to recover files from it. I've got back deleted *istD files from my old CF card a few times using http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?language=1 -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
