Recovering From XD Card

[christoff1]

hi, i purchased your software a few weeks back for some data recovery from an old hard drive, worked great, now im trying to recover about 200 photographs from a 256mb XD Card, i can see a full list of photographs on the card, view them within the software but once saved to my hard drive they are all half a kilobyte and dont work. im clueless as to how this is happening, any ideas to help me ****?

chris

[vmp17]

Originally Posted by christoff1

hi, i purchased your software a few weeks back for some data recovery from an old hard drive, worked great, now im trying to recover about 200 photographs from a 256mb XD Card, i can see a full list of photographs on the card, view them within the software but once saved to my hard drive they are all half a kilobyte and dont work. im clueless as to how this is happening, any ideas to help me ****?

chris

I would like to see what the answer is for this one. I also have XD cards and would like to restore from them. I have tried and got some back but not all of them. What is the recommended selections for this and how do we get all the pictures? Any reason why some are corrupted??

[GDH]

Chris,

This problem is associated with the use of a pirate version of Recover My Files - when crackers try to break the software protection they also screw up the code. If this is the case, use this software at your own risk (it could be doing anything to your system) and please do not ask us for support. If this is not the case, send your purchase reference number to support via the support links at www.recovermyfiles.com and we will do everything we can to assist you get your files back.

[GDH]

VMP17,

Camera cards are usually only small, so the best idea is to experiment with a number of different search options.

{As a side note: You can speed up the search process if you take an image of your camera card - use EzyImager from http://www.getdata.com/download.php, save an image as C:\image.raw, and then mount it as a drive with http://www.mountimage.com}

You should be quickly able to try the 4 different types of search and see what results you get back. Generally speaking it is better to search the "physical drive" (the whole physical camera card) than the drive letter, so that you know that you searching all the storage media.

The only time data is lost is when it has been:

1. It has been overwritten by other data (eg. new photos);
2. The storage media is physically damaged
3. The file is so fragmented that it is impossible to track the fragmentation and recover all parts of the file.

I hope this helps. Please let us know how it goes.