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| Thread ID: 87209 | 2008-02-12 10:57:00 | Too many corrupted memory cards | kiwikeith (1273) | Press F1 |
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| 639717 | 2008-02-12 10:57:00 | Hi All I thought I would comment on the increasingly common occurence of corrupted memory cards. I work in a camera store and get a steady stream of customers asking me to recover their images as their cards are corrupted. This usually happens if their camera powers down while saving an image because the battery has gone flat.This creates a corrupt image file and then you cant view the images on your camera or computer any more. The other common reason was that they had pressed the "format" command thinking it was a creative control, even after they have been warned that it will delete all their images. Duhh! Anyway I would take them home and after using file recovery software on them I was able, about 90% of the time, be able to recover the lost images. Strangely over the last couple of months I am seeing more cards coming in that are just dead, the computer wont even recognise them!!?? The cards are usually XD and SD memory cards, I rarely see compact flash cards with this problem. Now is it a coincidence that SD memory is now the cheapest medium to buy as most cameras use them. Even Fuji now have a dual slot on their cameras in order take both XD and SD and the latest Canon digital SLR uses SD. Maybe I am just paranoid but I tell it as I sees it. Just a warning to you photographers out there,please,please backup your images to CD regularly, I see too many people lose precious never to be repeated travel photos etc because they just keep them in their camera. |
kiwikeith (1273) | ||
| 639718 | 2008-02-12 12:09:00 | Thanks for the warning :thumbs: I religiously check my batteries to prevent this from happening and back up all images to a computer every night. So far so good... | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 639719 | 2008-02-12 12:17:00 | I see too many people lose precious never to be repeated travel photos etc because they just keep them in their camera. I bet half the time this happens is because people don’t know how to download photos of there camera. If you don’t know how to download photos of your camera, ask for help :) |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 639720 | 2008-02-12 17:57:00 | Kiwikeith, is it only certain brands of memory cards that are dead? Corruption can probably happen with any type of card through improper use but I wonder if even the top brands go dead? I only buy mem cards that have a lifetime (or 5 yr warranty), and some have "self correcting errors". | Morpheus1 (186) | ||
| 639721 | 2008-02-12 21:19:00 | I have on here at the moment, a 2gig Sandisk that I cannot even access it is just dead..I have seen many brands with the same problem but I have heard that the Dick smith cards are a bit dodgy but wouldnt like to single out any brand just XD and SD ..I am doing a google at the moment trying to find software to recover file from it, photo rescue seem to do a advanced copy of their software that at least recognises the card but it is too advanced, i may try the dummy version. | kiwikeith (1273) | ||
| 639722 | 2008-02-12 21:30:00 | Strangely over the last couple of months I am seeing more cards coming in that are just dead, the computer wont even recognise them!!?? The cards are usually XD and SD memory cards, I rarely see compact flash cards with this problem. It's not your card reader that has a problem is it? Contact problems aren't always the card. Newer SDHC cards can't be read in most old SD readers, I'm not sure about changes to XD cards. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 639723 | 2008-02-12 21:30:00 | Hey Stu I really think people have to be educated, even printing photos are a good backup, you can always scan them later to cd if youwant digital images..prints are cheap as chips at the moment and is the only "hard copy" medium. |
kiwikeith (1273) | ||
| 639724 | 2008-02-12 21:33:00 | Hey Paul I dont think so, I have used the slot in my laptop as well as a card reader and also the card reader at work, the customer has tried it on our DPC's at work and on her computer, it is a dead parrot :-) |
kiwikeith (1273) | ||
| 639725 | 2008-02-12 21:34:00 | Paul where did you get the info that says SDHC (I presume that means High Capacity) are not backward compatible with card readers | kiwikeith (1273) | ||
| 639726 | 2008-02-12 21:45:00 | This update may fix that (support.microsoft.com) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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