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SD card gone kaput? Help?
I've got a SanDisk 512 SD card, and I just got a Nikon D50 DSLR camera.
I took it out about 10 days ago and took 200 pics, some of them actually GOOD. Took the SD card out, and with a USB-based-SD-card-reader I look at 'em and showed 'em around and so on. I left the SD card sitting in the USB reader sticking out of the USB port on the outside of my PC (WinXP). This may have been my mistake. Today I went to move the pictures onto the hard drive, edit 'em and post 'em on flickr. I can't. The Removable Drive shows up in My Computer, but I can't open. I can't right click on it. It just goes into deep slowdown mode and often requires me to force-quit Explorer.exe - or else times out. I tried using another card (in fact, a memory stick) in the same USB reader and that works fine. It's not the reader. I put the card back in the camera. Oh-oh. "This card cannnot be used" I tried this on another PC and it's the same thing. Have I trashed the card? Was it from sitting out? If Windows won't recognize it, I can't even reformat it, let alone get the pictures off of it? Any ideas or experiences here? |
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Have I trashed the card? Was it from sitting out? If Windows won't recognize it, I can't even reformat it, let alone get the pictures off of it? The SD cards have a write protect switch on the side. Me sure you didn't write protect the card. -- Pardon my spam deterrent; send email to Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA http://home.earthlink.net/~rhodyman |
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SD card gone kaput? Help?
I used File Scavenger to retrieve (most?) of the pictures from the SD -
I was surprised that it worked, but it seemed to get most of 'em, so there we go. Not sure what to do with this card at this point, if I should throw it away as untrustworthy, or see if I can force a format to happen with a utility and then try it again (but never again leaving it attached to the PC for days at a time). |
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SD card gone kaput? Help?
I actually managed to format the card after getting the pictures off of
it and it seems fine now. But of course, I'm nervous about what'll happen "next time" |
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