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Need help salvaging photos from Digital Wallet.
Hi,
I have a 3G Digital Wallet from Minds@Work and have used it quite a few times. So far so good until now... I just came back from a trip and I have stored 12 uploads from my compact fash card (256M) during the trip. Now back at home, I have problem reading one of these 12 uploads (the 6th upload). I couldn't open the folder on a Windows XP system with the digital wallet connected. The other 11 are fine. I then tried to upload it back to the CF card and manage to upload about 100 of the 300+ photos in that download. It said it has some errors. I'm thinking of taking out the hard disk and connect it directly to a computer and try to salvage the other files. I am trying to find out the partition and file formats of the Digital Wallet and couldn't find much info on the net. Does anyone have information about the disk partition format of the Digital Wallet? Is it a simple FAT patition? I would greatly appreciate any info regarding the disk/partition format of the digital wallet hard disk. Thanks. Raymond |
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Raymond Leung wrote:
Hi, I have a 3G Digital Wallet from Minds@Work and have used it quite a few times. So far so good until now... I just came back from a trip and I have stored 12 uploads from my compact fash card (256M) during the trip. Now back at home, I have problem reading one of these 12 uploads (the 6th upload). I couldn't open the folder on a Windows XP system with the digital wallet connected. The other 11 are fine. I then tried to upload it back to the CF card and manage to upload about 100 of the 300+ photos in that download. It said it has some errors. I'm thinking of taking out the hard disk and connect it directly to a computer and try to salvage the other files. I am trying to find out the partition and file formats of the Digital Wallet and couldn't find much info on the net. Does anyone have information about the disk partition format of the Digital Wallet? Is it a simple FAT patition? I would greatly appreciate any info regarding the disk/partition format of the digital wallet hard disk. Thanks. Raymond I have no specific knowledge about the specs of Digital Wallet. My guess is it's just another simple ATA-type drive with a FAT-16 or FAT-32 translator (depending on capacity). Since you have access to Winders-XP w/Plug n' Pray, plug that puppy in on the secondary drive channel connector. If that doesn't seem to work right off, be certain the sec channel is enable in BIOS. If the drive spins up, Winders just may be able to automagically figure out the translator. If it was me, I'd give it a shot. -- jer email reply - I am not a 'ten' "All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of what we know." -- Richard Wilbur |
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Raymond Leung wrote:
Hi, I have a 3G Digital Wallet from Minds@Work and have used it quite a few times. So far so good until now... I just came back from a trip and I have stored 12 uploads from my compact fash card (256M) during the trip. Now back at home, I have problem reading one of these 12 uploads (the 6th upload). I couldn't open the folder on a Windows XP system with the digital wallet connected. The other 11 are fine. I then tried to upload it back to the CF card and manage to upload about 100 of the 300+ photos in that download. It said it has some errors. I'm thinking of taking out the hard disk and connect it directly to a computer and try to salvage the other files. I am trying to find out the partition and file formats of the Digital Wallet and couldn't find much info on the net. Does anyone have information about the disk partition format of the Digital Wallet? Is it a simple FAT patition? I would greatly appreciate any info regarding the disk/partition format of the digital wallet hard disk. Thanks. Raymond I have no specific knowledge about the specs of Digital Wallet. My guess is it's just another simple ATA-type drive with a FAT-16 or FAT-32 translator (depending on capacity). Since you have access to Winders-XP w/Plug n' Pray, plug that puppy in on the secondary drive channel connector. If that doesn't seem to work right off, be certain the sec channel is enable in BIOS. If the drive spins up, Winders just may be able to automagically figure out the translator. If it was me, I'd give it a shot. -- jer email reply - I am not a 'ten' "All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of what we know." -- Richard Wilbur |
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I finally found there is a Yahoo group dedicated to digital wallet:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thedigitalwallet/ And a couple web pages that has detail technical information: http://www.wmuma.com/other/digitalwallet/ http://members.cox.net/steved64/mindstor/ I managed to salvage the upload and got back all my photos by connecting the digital wallet hard disk directly to a linux system. I use the linux disk editor (http://lde.sourceforge.net/) to fix a couple corrupted sectors in the FAT table by copying those sectors from a second copy of the FAT table on the disk. I'm now happy. :-) Raymond |
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I finally found there is a Yahoo group dedicated to digital wallet:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thedigitalwallet/ And a couple web pages that has detail technical information: http://www.wmuma.com/other/digitalwallet/ http://members.cox.net/steved64/mindstor/ I managed to salvage the upload and got back all my photos by connecting the digital wallet hard disk directly to a linux system. I use the linux disk editor (http://lde.sourceforge.net/) to fix a couple corrupted sectors in the FAT table by copying those sectors from a second copy of the FAT table on the disk. I'm now happy. :-) Raymond |
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