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memory card corruption - help!

Jun 18, 2005 9:30AM PDT

hi there. i have a canon a85 and i guess i was flipping through images and deleting some of them all too fast because i think i have corrupted something. one frame shows the image very small and underneath says data corrupted. and anothe frame, it doesnt show the image, it just says data corrupted and ?.
what happened and what do i do? thing is, the 2 images with the supposed corruption, i dont really care about them. its the others i really care about (i have another 150 to 200 images) and i am a little nervous that its not only those 2 frames/images that are corrupted.
is it possible the entire card (all teh photos) have a problem?
what is the best thing to do in the situation to not lose any of the photos, or just lose those 2 and not the rest?
and if i download onto a disc, could the corruption move to the disc and corrput that?
these are irreplaceable images and mean a lot to me, so any insight would be great. thanks so much.
angie

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First, stop using the card. That may be obvious, but just in
Jun 18, 2005 1:09PM PDT

case. Second, if you don't have a card reader, you should get one. Third, obtain recovery software to obtain the images from the memory card.

The program I have used recently, is Rescue Pro from San Disk. It costs $40 as a download. Others may know of a lesser cost option.

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Recovering photos
Jun 18, 2005 4:13PM PDT

Try recover-my-photos.com. It's a fast and free download. It allows you to see the pictures trapped on that card. If you decide to recover the pictures it's $27.

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PC Inspector smart recovery
Jun 19, 2005 1:53AM PDT

is free and works for me every time.

It is fairly straightforward to use.

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(NT) (NT) In a card reader.
Jun 19, 2005 1:56AM PDT
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Recovering photos from formatted SD card
Dec 2, 2005 3:43AM PST

Will this work after an SD card was reformatted? Also, if I use this software on such a card and it doesn't work, will that further complicate getting my photos back? I haven't shot anything on the card after formatting.

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Try Free Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery...
Jun 20, 2005 8:02AM PDT