Corrupt Memory Card !!!!

[kevin_mathe]

My memory card (Olympus XD 128mb) corrupted on my last day of vacation with 126

pictures taken. I used zero assumption to extract all of the pictures

successfully but they are only in thumbnail format. I called Olympus and they

told me that I could not view the full picture because in the Olympus camera

the thumbnail is a header. They think that I need to fix the binary code and I

know nothing about how to do that. Please help me !!

 

 

Thanks,

Kevin

[skip_williams]

Try one of the file recovery programs like Image Rescue. I've used that one a couple of times with excellent results. Most let you recover a few pictures with their free version, but ask you pay for the full version to get them all back.

 

The one thing you should do....Don't write to the card until you get one of the rescue programs. Otherwise you risk screwing up the existing file structure, however damaged it is.

 

Skip

[j.martin___]

I recently rescued some images from a defective SD card with photorescue. I highly recommend it:

http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue

[sporn_avner2]

Well,

We told You Digital sucks!

 

I can sell You Olympus OM1 for good price...................

[erikdenhouter]

Depends...

What is not said or known in this is what the interface is that you use now.

You first need to have an (inexpensive) card reader to access the card.

You can't do the file-recovery until the card is read as a station (say "drive") on your computer, and probably that is not possible trough the software that is used when the camera is connected directly to your computer.

And a card reader can do that for you.

Then use any file recovery program (I use PC inspector File Recovery, freeware)