.CR2 files corrupted on CF

[artem10]

I experienced a problem last night - after shooting a bunch of pictures in RAW

on my Canon 5D I realized that they were all corrupted before I uploaded them

on to my PC. The CF card (Transcend 2Gb, 80x) hadn't been re-formatted before

shooting; there were several dozen pictures remaining on it and they could all

be viewed on the camera itself. After I shot about a 8-10 add'l pictures

yesterday I couldn't preview any of them on the camera (and I could view 2 of

the previously shot pictures from that CF). When I got home and tried to

upload the pictures to my PC it only allowed me to upload those 2 old pictures

that were visible on the camera (they had already been uploaded earlier

anyways). When I tried to view the files on the CF card through a card reader,

Win Explorer shows that there're a bunch of files on the CF card but all

except those 2 files that I could view on the camera were not .CR2 files but

some corrupted ones. It wouldn't even allow me to manually copy/paste any of

those files from the CF card on my PC. My initial thought was that it might be

because of the cold conditions during the shooting yesterday, but I'm now

suspecting the CF malfunction instead. Does anybody know if there's a way to

restore those corrupted .CR2 files on the CF card? Thanks in advance for any

advice.

[ronald_moravec1]

Don`t know exact answer, but both Leica and Canon reps have told me to reformat the card in camera after you erase the images.

 

I download as I take pics and still allow the card to fill. Then I erase and reformat. Never had a problem.

[JeffOwen]

You could try one of the proprietry CF recovery programs. I tried Photorescue when my card got corrupted and it worked fine. I don't known if it works with CR2 RAW files though. Do a search on Google and try the free downloads, if one works OK (thumbnails only) you may have to pay for the full version to actually get the full file.

[artem10]

Jeff,

 

Thank you for the tip. I've tried PhotoRescue and it's recovered almost all of the corrupted files. Luckily, the pictures that I shot the last were among those recovered. :-) FYI, to actually save the recovered files you need to purchase the commercial version of PhotoRescue ($29).