Help Help & More Help With Cf Card

[falconer2406]

Hi all Panic!! Currently on holiday in bonnie Scotland with 2gigs worth of pictures taken with a canon 350d using a Scandisk Ultra II CF card.
Whilst i can still see and scan through the pictures on the camera when i come to load them onto my PC via a CF adapter it tells me the card is corrupt and can't be opened!! Scary!!
I have tried a different card through the adapter and this opens fine leaving me to think its not then the adapter.
Anyone any ideas as to how i can then get the pictures of the card and onto PC. I have some cracking closes ups of Siskins feeding and some superb (I hope!) close ups of a dipper feeding at the nest, got shots of the parent birds head inside the gape of one of the chicks, look great on the camera screen. Also the ospreys up at Loch Lowes, i would be gutted to lose these!!
Help Please !!!!

Falconer

[njlarsen]

Answer No. one: dont do anything brash or too hurried. If you have a different card to use until you get home, then use that and hold off on the offending card.

Answer no 2: Once at home, look into the several programs that allow you to read a corrupt cf card. The one I have experience with is "Photorescue PC", which definitely solved my problem the one time I really had one. If your card had one of these programs pre-installed, you may already have all the help needed on your PC.

Even if you don't currently have a good card, purchase one, and save the problems until you are not stressed.

Niels

[Cristian Mihai]

Hi Falconer,

Did you try to download the pics direct in to computer using an USB cable?

[Chris Galvin]

Niels is spot on with his advice don't panic and leave the cardc till you get home and use the rescue disc that may have come with your Sandisk CF card

[falconer2406]

Niels is spot on with his advice don't panic and leave the cardc till you get home and use the rescue disc that may have come with your Sandisk CF card

Hi Thanks for the reply's i have plenty of spare cards and checked these out before i started using them and they seem to work fine.
Will look on internet to see if there are any CF rescue packages on there and will also check into the software suggested.
In reply to a question asked I tried to load the card direct from a card reader in fact from two card readers linked via a usb cable. I am now going to try the cannon software which i dont normally use as its so long winded compared to just dropping them onto PC with a card reader.

[Duke Leto]

Plug the camera in to a usb port, you might need to change the usb setting on the camera but it should appear in my computer as a hard drive see if you can open it up and manually grab all the images, if the camera reads them then there won't be too much wrong