bummer...corrupt memory card... need help!

[rudder]

Sorry if this is the wrong forum... but I felt with the problems I am having it may be familiar to a fellow AT photographer.

Anyways... took some pictures on a 4GB kingston elite pro card with a Canon 5D. I shot raw+jpg. The following day I viewed the photos on a netbook... all good. The next day after that I insert the card into my PC to move the pictures to permanent storage. Instead of my typical folder under the DCIM folder... there is just a dot with a size of 0 bytes. I put the card back into the camera and no pictures load and it says directory full.

Okay so this begins to suck.

Image Rescue 3, select Canon and .cr2 and .jpg. Thankfully the program finds all the pictures even some that were on the card that was formatted before shooting began. I am happy. The files recovered are all .jpg and are around 12 megs. They all display fine. Moved them to permanent storage.

So I am 1/2 happy at this point.

It seems the raw data has been merged with the jpg. My goal is to recover the raw data as some photos need WB and exposure adjustments and such. The data appears to be there due to the file size being 12 mb when normally the jpg shows 2-3 Mb.

I sent a help request to Kingston, no reply as of yet. I was wondering if there are any other programs you all might have experience with.

 

[Maximus96]

lightroom give *some* exposure adjustments to jpegs (until it looks horrid) and works pretty well adjusting WB in jpeg as well...in case you can't recover the RAW files...

 

[Munky]

Why can't you adjust WB on jpegs? It's easy to do in software like Photoshop, you just don't have as much headroom as with RAW.

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: munky
Why can't you adjust WB on jpegs? It's easy to do in software like Photoshop, you just don't have as much headroom as with RAW.

I can. Just seems like I am losing a lot of information settling for the Jpegs. I have the pics so that is good... but I prefer to work with RAW if I can.

And I did get a response from Kingston tech support:

Sorry to hear that your flash device is no longer working. There are two possible ways of recovering your data as long as the device is not severely corrupted.

1. Contact a company that specializes in data recovery services such as Driver Savers at www.drivesavers.com and Ontrack at www.ontrack.com just to name a couple or you can do a search on Google for data recovery.

2. Go to www.download.com and do a search for data recovery and download one of the many utilities for data recovery which are fairly simple to use. Some may actually be free, but they should all have free trials will at least tell you if they can recover those files.


They were very helpful...:roll: