Fredrick
Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area
NJFrank wrote:
No I use it as a second card used after the first card fills up
Larger cards, where you write redundantly to both cards, is a good reason to have them. If one card goes bad, you have the images on the other card.
Sorry to read of your dilemma, Frank....
I had this occur twice with my Canon 5D Mark II.
I had shut off the camera while it was dumping the buffer to the card (16 Gig).
The camera displayed the same message on the LCD. I did NOT format the card - but waited till I was at a motel and downloaded a program called "CardRecovery". I got back everything from that shoot and a LOT MORE.
This only works IF you do not do a "low format" where everything is erased from the workings of the chip.
I now am very cautious about watching the little light that tells me that the camera is "busy" dumping from the buffer.
I hope this may help...
https://www.cardrecovery.com/download.aspBTW = This worked so well I bought the program :-)
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James R wrote:
Sorry to read of your dilemma, Frank....
I had this occur twice with my Canon 5D Mark II.
I had shut off the camera while it was dumping the buffer to the card (16 Gig).
The camera displayed the same message on the LCD. I did NOT format the card - but waited till I was at a motel and downloaded a program called "CardRecovery". I got back everything from that shoot and a LOT MORE.
This only works IF you do not do a "low format" where everything is erased from the workings of the chip.
I now am very cautious about watching the little light that tells me that the camera is "busy" dumping from the buffer.
I hope this may help...
https://www.cardrecovery.com/download.aspBTW = This worked so well I bought the program :-)
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Sorry to read of your dilemma, Frank.... br br I ... (
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The card failure happened as I was shooting, not when I turned the camera off too soon. When I hit the button nothing happened I tried hitting the butt again thinking I wasn’t focused. When I looked at the top screen then I saw that it wanted me to format the card. I tried two different recovery software programs neither worked. Both said no data found. I even tried formatting first in camera than on the computer. Nothing.
Did you inadvertently lock the card?
charlienow wrote:
Did you inadvertently lock the card?
No, the failure happened while shooting. Literally from one shot to the next one it quit. I even took it out and slide the lock up and down to be sure that it didn't move for whatever reason.
NJFrank wrote:
I will try that recovery software. I have nothing to lose. But I am afraid the card may be done. I can't format it neither the camera or computer.
Thanks for the info.
UPDATE
Actually that is one of the software's that I tried previously
Thanks again
I've had repeated success with Recuva. Lest you think I am a total dolt, that's 2 CF cards and an SD over many years. One of them "accidentally" had images deleted in computer by my daughter-in-law. Sorry it didn't work for you, but I do recommend it be a first resort for anyone in trouble. The price is definitely in keeping with what most of us can afford.
Alafoto wrote:
I've had repeated success with Recuva. Lest you think I am a total dolt, that's 2 CF cards and an SD over many years. One of them "accidentally" had images deleted in computer by my daughter-in-law. Sorry it didn't work for you, but I do recommend it be a first resort for anyone in trouble. The price is definitely in keeping with what most of us can afford.
I would say the vast majority have had success with the recovery software. I seem to be that part who are not in the success column. Nothing is 100%. Unless I did something wrong, I may have to move on. BTW the directions didn't seem overly technical so I don't believe I messed up following the steps for recovery.
I will give it one more try, just in case my thick head didn't do something right with the software.
Will you live forever? Will your card live forever?
Answer is the same.
Bill P wrote:
Will you live forever? Will your card live forever?
Answer is the same.
I am very happy I outlived that card. I plan on out living a bunch more cards.
Good for you. I'm not so sure I will.
NJFrank wrote:
No just the one card. I switched them out. It would not work until I physically took out the damaged card. Once I did that Then the camera allowed me to continue shooting.
Just out of curiosity what brand of card was it and did you by any chance put it in a card reader hooked to your computer to see if you could see any images before reformatting it?
I'm glad you were able to make everything right. When things like happen to me I just think back to film days when you accidently expose a roll, but glad you can keep going now you know what cards to avoid !
AirWalter wrote:
Just out of curiosity what brand of card was it and did you by any chance put it in a card reader hooked to your computer to see if you could see any images before reformatting it?
Sandisk. It failed in the camera while taking pictures. I had to change cards before I could continue with my days shooting. After I got home I tried everything I wrote here in this thread
Imagemine wrote:
I'm glad you were able to make everything right. When things like happen to me I just think back to film days when you accidently expose a roll, but glad you can keep going now you know what cards to avoid !
If this is the worst thing that happens in my life, I will be extremely happy.
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