6 Comments DATA RESCUE 3: THANKS PB (TWITTER SAVE)

Article written by Skidblog on the 10 Sep 2010 in DSLR software

We had a bit of a situation yesterday: CF card comes out of the camera and the computer simply can’t read anything in the DCIM folder. We get the message: ‘No images on the memory card meet the download conditions’. We put the card back in the camera and we get ‘No Image’. However, if you go to the format menu it says there’s 5 gigs of something on the card. I tried all the different methods I know to get a disk back but Disk Warrior wouldn’t have it and MediaRECOVER wouldn’t have it either. Squeaky bum time.

I’ve been twittering like a bluebird at the worm factory recently and been knocking some things back and forth with a certain Mr. P Bloom. I told him about my predicament, he recommended Data Rescue 3, we tried it and… well it only bloody worked. Not only that (and this is the really scary bit) we recovered files we’d shot two weeks ago previous to the card being formatted. That’s insane. So, if stuff like that happens to you, try Data Rescue 3. It’s around $100 but we were staring at a very nasty phone call to the client and now, well, we’re sitting pretty. Thanks again PB, I owe you a beer. Oh, and this has completely confirmed my conversion to the Twitterverse. Amen.

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September 10, 2010 11:56 AM Andrew Howe @endeavouruk Website Reply

I was listening to TWiP #154 the other day and they had Jeff Cable from Lexar on. He was talking about recovery and formatting. Formatting on a card does not alter the data on the card, it just marks it as deleted in the FAT. This means that the data is still recoverable (for better or for worse) until new data is written over it.

September 10, 2010 12:09 PM Skidblog @Twitter ID Website Reply

And I experienced that very thing last night. Kind of feels like a bit of a Lazarus style miracle, but we got our files back at least which is very good news.

September 13, 2010 4:07 PM VillageBoi @Twitter ID Website Reply

How funny is lfe? I did a shoot yesterday and by ‘accident’ I formatted the first card I used – 550+ stills. Remembered this post, bought the software and I soooo don’t have to make that call to the client.

Thanks a zillion for the post and to Philip Bloom for the information.

2010-09-13 23:08:57 Skidblog Website

That's ace, glad it worked out for you, definitely spared my balls a very blunt knifing from the client!

September 14, 2010 10:50 PM 7d Corrupt Files at DVinfo.net Website Reply

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