[DEMUG] SD Camera Disk Repair

[Tim Smith]

Check the card mfg.'s web site for free downloadable utilities to  
rescue corrupt discs. The better disc makers usually supply a utility  
that helps recover files. If yours doesn't, there are lots of  
software solutions like : http://www.gorecovery.com/ 
digital_photo_recovery_for_mac.asp if you're wiling to pay. A more  
thorough search is likely to turn up shareware that could do  
something similar.

Good luck!
Tim

On Oct 2, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Dwight M. Lanpher wrote:

> Dear Group:
>
> I have a 1 GB SD Camera disk that is partially corrupt.. probably a  
> bad
> format or a bad section of memory. This disk contains the last day  
> of a
> vacation in Europe and I would very much like to recover the data.
>
> I am able to see and copy the first 71 pictures off the card but Disk
> Utility indicates that there are 512 files on the disk: Get Info  
> indicates
> 817.8 Mbytes of data on the SD Card but it also indicates that the one
> visible folder only has 160.2 MB of data.
>
> Format :     MS-DOS File System (FAT16)
> Capacity :   962.4 MB (1,009,128,448 Bytes)
> Available :  144.3 MB (151,339,008 Bytes)
> Used :         817.8 MB (857,522,176 Bytes)
> Number of Files :  512
>
> Disk Verify indicates many errors of the type:
>
> Extend? no
> /DCIM/102CANON has entries after end of directory
> Truncate? no
>
> Does anyone have suggestions for specific recovery software? I’ve  
> used Disk
> Warrior on hard disks and think that it might be a good candidate for
> recovery as it recovers the actual data files and reconstructs the
> directory.
>
> But, I don’t know whether Disk Warrior can deal with a SD Card. I’m  
> using a
> PCMCIA card to read the disk and it mounts very nicely in Disk Repair.
>
> I’ve tried making a disk image but only the 71 files appear so I  
> believe
> that I’m going to have to work on the actual disk and not a copy so  
> I don’t
> want to make a mistake. I’ll probably have only one chance to  
> recover the
> data.
>
> Fortunately I used several cards so that I’ve only lost one day’s  
> pictures.
> But it would be a major expense and another trip to reshoot the  
> pictures and
> video so I would be willing to spend some money to recover the data. I
> believe it’s still there and with the right software it should be  
> easily
> restored. I would even consider sending out to a data recovery  
> service.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> ---Dwight
>
>
> Dwight M. Lanpher
> Box 472, 1 Summit Road
> Northeast Harbor, ME 04662-0472
>
> email: groupw at lanpherassociates.com
> voice: (207)276-5350, FAX:(207)276-4067
>
>
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