SD card - Help!!!!

maxie · 05-08-2012 7:35pm #1

Hi all,
Would be great if someone can help me out. I took some photos today at a kids birthday party so when i put the SD card in my imac it was reading the card then it stopped reading. I then ejected the card and inserted again and I got the following message "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer - options to Initialize / ignore / eject. I selected eject and if i insert again I get the same message. Can the data be recovered somehow?

yoyo · 05-08-2012 7:39pm

Try TestDisk or PhotoRec should help

Nick

maxie · 05-08-2012 7:52pm

Nick,
Cheers but its not picking up the SD drive. :mad:

yoyo · 05-08-2012 7:54pm

maxie wrote: »

Nick,
Cheers but its not picking up the SD drive. :mad:

Do you have a Windows machine you could try the SD card in?, also try using a dedicated card reader over the camera, sometimes these can be less problematic

Nick

henryporter · 05-08-2012 8:04pm

Try removing the sd card, restart the iMac and reinsert the card.

maxie · 05-08-2012 8:19pm

rebooted mac - same problem.

I put the card in the camera and it says Format, not looking good is it.

I might bang a mail to data recovery to see if they can help http://www.datarecovery.ie/camera_card.htm

Cheers for your help.

Rgds
Dave

yoyo · 05-08-2012 8:21pm

maxie wrote: »

rebooted mac - same problem.

I put the card in the camera and it says Format, not looking good is it.

I might bang a mail to data recovery to see if they can help http://www.datarecovery.ie/camera_card.htm

Cheers for your help.

Rgds
Dave

A Windows machine with a similar issue should mount the device, try a Windows machine if you can, no idea about Macs. TestDisk is quite good at repairing corrupted partitions and PhotoRec for recovering the actual files

Nick

maxie · 05-08-2012 8:51pm

Hi Nick,

I have a usb sd card reader. I connected to a windows machine.

No logs selected, then I select Intel/PC Partition, select analyse - Partition sector doesnt have the end mark 0xAA55

Using test disk it picks up Disk /dev/sdb -1073 MB / 1024 MiB - CHS 130 255 63

options to Add Partition or Load backup ???

Appreciate your help Nick.

Rgds
Dave

yoyo · 05-08-2012 9:46pm

maxie wrote: »

Hi Nick,

I have a usb sd card reader. I connected to a windows machine.

No logs selected, then I select Intel/PC Partition, select analyse - Partition sector doesnt have the end mark 0xAA55

Using test disk it picks up Disk /dev/sdb -1073 MB / 1024 MiB - CHS 130 255 63

options to Add Partition or Load backup ???

Appreciate your help Nick.

Rgds
Dave

Hi Dave, try PhotoRec, the SD card probably uses the FAT32 filesystem btw

so choose that when asked. Make sure to copy the files onto the computer, not the actual SD Card obviously!

Nick

maxie · 05-08-2012 10:19pm

Still no joy.
I select Disk /dev/sdb 1073MB /1024MiB usb card reader, does this mean there is 1073MB of data on the card?

Once I select the above I get

Partition Start End Size in Sectors
> P Unknown 0 0 1 130 138 8 2097152

Filesystem type where the files were restored.

[ ext2/ext3 ] ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem
[ other ] FAT/NTFS/HFS+/ReiserFS/...

I tried both and no files were found. the above doesn't mention FAT32 ? I take it FAT is FAT16 ???

Cheers N

Rgds
Dave

RUCKING FETARD · 05-08-2012 10:30pm

Try

No harm to.

maxie · 05-08-2012 10:51pm

Cheers Nick but I dont have any unix applications on my windows pc.
Time for sleep. I'll try again tomorrow.

Cheers and thanks for all your help.

Rgds
Dave

riclad · 06-08-2012 10:19am

You can get a usb sd micro card reader cable 2 euro in 2 euro shops, works fine on windows pc,
dont know if it works on a mac.
i have 2 sd cards ,that dont work ,ill try em on a unix pc sometime.2gig and 16gig.
i didnt use windows remove ,eject media command ,i was careless.
when i put 16gig in,it says disk not formmatted ,do u wish to format this?
it has 5gig of music on it.
try it in netcafe ,or library pc.

maxie · 06-08-2012 11:11am

Hi,
I have a usb card reader, got it in the deals shop in blanchardstown shopping centre for 1.49.

Still not having any luck.

I'd be willing to post the SD card if someone could restore the data. If restored I'd pay for your services.
The files are .NEF (Nikons RAW file).

Rgds
Dave

twowheelsonly · 06-08-2012 11:20am

Have you tried loading the photos directly from the camera using a cable?

Try a different computer as well if you can before going down the format/partition route.

maxie · 06-08-2012 11:35am

didn't try the cable as the camera reads FORMAT but i'll also try that.
I tried a windows laptop via usb card reader.

Will let you know how the camera usb cable goes.

maxie · 06-08-2012 12:02pm

No luck

yoyo · 06-08-2012 12:25pm

Recuva may also be worth trying, how long does photorec stay at scanning the disk?

Nick

maxie · 06-08-2012 12:52pm

[Quot
e=yoyo;80092116]Recuva may also be worth trying, how long does photorec stay at scanning the disk?

Nick[/Quote]

Hi Nick. It does 2scans 3mins and 3mins. Is recuva free? Can you tell if there is data on the card from looking at previous logs on this thread?

yoyo · 06-08-2012 1:03pm

maxie wrote: »

[Quot
e=yoyo;80092116]Recuva may also be worth trying, how long does photorec stay at scanning the disk?

Nick

Hi Nick. It does 2scans 3mins and 3mins. Is recuva free? Can you tell if there is data on the card from looking at previous logs on this thread?[/QUOTE]

Yes Recuva is free, that scan time sounds about right, do try Recuva see how you get on

Nick

maxie · 06-08-2012 1:27pm

yoyo wrote: »

maxie wrote: »

[Quot
e=yoyo;80092116]Recuva may also be worth trying, how long does photorec stay at scanning the disk?

Nick

Hi Nick. It does 2scans 3mins and 3mins. Is recuva free? Can you tell if there is data on the card from looking at previous logs on this thread?

Yes Recuva is free, that scan time sounds about right, do try Recuva see how you get on

Nick[/Quote]

Nick,
Recuva wont scan the drive because its not formated.

maxie · 06-08-2012 2:05pm

Get the following message from Recuva.

Location is not available.

F:\ is not accessible.

The volume does not contain a recognised file system.
Please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that the volume is not corrupted.

Rgds
Dave

yoyo · 06-08-2012 2:30pm

maxie wrote: »

Get the following message from Recuva.

Location is not available.

F:\ is not accessible.

The volume does not contain a recognised file system.
Please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that the volume is not corrupted.

Rgds
Dave

you can also try Easeus Partition Repair, no expierience with it myself but has worked for others and it is free, no harm in trying

(You may need to use Recuva/PhotoREC after repairing the partition)

Nick

maxie · 06-08-2012 9:01pm

Hi Nick,

I tried Easeus partition recovery, Easeus Data Recovery, Disk Digger.
They all scanned through the disk sector which resulted in 0 files found.

Can someone recommend a company that specialise in data recovery.

Cheers for your help.

Rgds
Dave

riclad · 07-08-2012 8:53am

try this ,http://www.z-a-recovery.com/
a free digital camera image recovery function is available
quote,
Secondly, even its demo version recovers digital images from memory cards. This means that it is enough to have a demo version of ZAR at hand to recover lost (deleted) digital images from your digital camera. end quote

try the demo version.
designed for windows xp,2000,2003 os,no mac version avaidable.

maxie · 13-08-2012 11:00am

Hi All,
I got it sorted from www.criticaldata.ie

The controller had failed so they had to take the chip out of the SD card to restore the data.

Cheers for your help.

Rgds
Dave

SD card - Help!!!!

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