[Cheeseball81]

Hey all,

A co-worker of mine just came back from a family trip to El Salvador. Her brother went ahead and uploaded the vacation pics to his MySpace page.
But when you put the memory card back in the camera, the pics won't show up. It just says the card is not formatted - do you want to format it now?
I've tried tinkering with it several times. It says the same thing when you put the card in a card reader. And the same when you directly plug the camera into a computer via USB.
Is there any software (preferably free) she can use to retrieve her pictures? It's an Olympus camera so the card is xD. I would hate to see her family lose all those pictures.

Thanks

[mrss]

I have used PC Inspector Smart Recovery.
http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/smar...htm?language=1

I have not tried it a card that supposedly needs formatting though. However, I've used it on a cards that were formatted and it still found all the pictures afterwards. I would advise not formatting the card though.

[PopPicker]

XD cards ..... ugh

Quite possibly the card or camera was removed from the PC before it had finished transfering data. You could try connecting it in the same way to the same PC that caused the problem, this can sometimes fix it.

Otherwise try the suggestion of mrss, however XD's are notorious for not being recoverable.

[Cheeseball81]

Thanks. I will give it a shot.

[RootbeaR]

Originally Posted by Cheeseball81

Thanks. I will give it a shot.

Try a Linux LiveCD.
Boot the puter to the live CD, once booted plug in the card and try to read it.
Puppy is a smaller download and should do the trick.

Once on the puppy desktop and card is in, you will probably need to click on drives, from the desktop, and mount the card.

Edit: Knoppix has a rescue CD and I think there are others as well.

[Cheeseball81]

She ended up buying something at photosrecovery.com
I installed it and was able to recover most of her photos - not all though.

[Danyo]

You said she uploaded her pics to Myspace. Couldn't she download the pics from there?

[Cheeseball81]

They weren't all uploaded to MySpace. Just a few. There were almost 400 pics.

[PopPicker]

You could try several rescue cycles. Sometimes it sort of loosens them up lol

[Cheeseball81]

LOL thanks.