AlanSmithee
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Normally I wouldn't bother trying to rescue images frmo a corrupted memory card, but on this occasion it was the photos of my first born's birth, so imagine my horror when I stuck my Olympus xD-Picture Card into the card reader and got an error message! I put the card back in the camera and the message there was 'Card needs formatting'.
A quick search on the Internet threw up several software packages which claimed they were able to recover data from a corrupted memory card that claims it needs formatting. The first two (generic) programs I tried didn't work (they didn't recognise the card) but the third program ("F-Recovery for xD-Picture", which as the name suggest is specifically for xD-Picture) found and recovered about 95% of the photos. Like most programs of its type, you can run it in an evaluation mode whereby it will tell you if it can find any images for rescuing before you spend out on the product (which is about £35).
The site that put me on to F-Recovery (and others) was
http://www.ultimateslr.com/memory-card-recovery.php
... and F-Recovery is at:
http://www.filerecoverytools.com/
A quick search on the Internet threw up several software packages which claimed they were able to recover data from a corrupted memory card that claims it needs formatting. The first two (generic) programs I tried didn't work (they didn't recognise the card) but the third program ("F-Recovery for xD-Picture", which as the name suggest is specifically for xD-Picture) found and recovered about 95% of the photos. Like most programs of its type, you can run it in an evaluation mode whereby it will tell you if it can find any images for rescuing before you spend out on the product (which is about £35).
The site that put me on to F-Recovery (and others) was
http://www.ultimateslr.com/memory-card-recovery.php
... and F-Recovery is at:
http://www.filerecoverytools.com/