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On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 19:36 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> > Hi all, |
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> > recently my SD card just went bonkers. Unfortunately I lost a lot of |
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> > photos on it (backups are useless until the data actually gets to the |
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> > backup...) but fortunately I was able to use a program to recover about |
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> > 170 photos. |
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> > Anyway, I don't know if it was just static, shock, dead card, or phase |
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> > of the moon, so I would like to see if the card is good before I |
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> > continue to use it. |
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> With any kind of memory or storage device, I would stop using after |
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> the first sign of a problem. My personal experience says it only gets |
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> worse. :) |
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> Lexar has a free program for recovering corrupted/deleted files from |
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> their cards, did you use that? Or something linux-based like photorec? |
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> Anyway, you wrote over it so it's too late now. :) |
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Now you tell me there are free versions?! I ended up finding a photo |
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recovery tool which recovered the photos for me, but it wasn't "free". |
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Needless to say I didn't pay for it, and I deleted it straight away. |
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I'll check out photorec next time. I'm having a hard time finding info |
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about it though (see previous email about draconian internet access). |
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Is there a general linux version of FAT recovery tools available |
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somewhere? I couldn't find one. |
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[sinp] |
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> Some (all?) memory cards do wear-leveling/load balancing |
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This is what I was afraid of. |
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thanks, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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Beware the new TTY code! |
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