Help recovering from SanDisk error

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"Martin Brown" wrote in message
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In message , Graham
Russell writes
This is probably a stupid question........

After shooting over 4000 pics at a marathon yesterday my business partner
had an error with one of his 1GB SanDisk compact flash cards. When trying
to
load images onto a laptop the card wasn't recognised.

When I got home I tried the card with 2 different card readers on 2
different PCs using 3 different recovery tools. 2 didn't recognise the
card
and Photorecovery reported the card as over 2000GB in size. If have
successfully recovered images from cards before, but they were at least
seen
as 1GB cards not 2TB. Trying the card in a D100 and 10D causes both
cameras
to show card errors and no other operations work.

I suspect the card has suffered a fatal hardware error so we've lost over
1000 race photos. Can anyone suggest something else to try?

It is still possible that the data can be read off the media even if the
file system is totally wrecked. If the data are really valuable your
best bet is with a hardware specialist recovery firm on a no win no fee
basis. And if they are successful it will be expensive.

I don't need any
lectures on using lots of smaller cards!!! This experience is perfect
support to that argument!!!

Lots of small cards can be a menace too. Some of the data loss I have
seen was probably caused by people changing media in a hurry with the
camera still writing data.

Regards,
--
Martin Brown