HELP URGENTLY NEEDED

[Sodafarl]

February 11, 2007 at 9:19 pm

Thanks very much to everyone who offered advice and help,
Thorsten I think the playing with the images is the best bet as my wife and kids were viewing the images and were turning them horizontal /vertical.
I will heed your advice and that of everyone else.
I haven’t really had a chance to try things today but last night with Jay and Robbies link I was able to save 248 images which is a bout halr, I also tried recovermyphoto which was showing 480 images I am going to try rescue me and see if it can improve the results.
Will keep everyone informed and thanks again for the help.
SODA

[Noely F]

February 12, 2007 at 9:49 pm

Hope ya get it sorted mate :wink:

[Sodafarl]

February 12, 2007 at 10:13 pm

Noely F wrote:

Hope ya get it sorted mate :wink:

Thanks Noely I am getting there slowly but surely, great help from here and that other place i talk to you on. Bought a couple of programs and have up to about 41/2 hundred recovered. Only thing is really darkened the images and will need a fair bit of photoshop but then I can live with that. So I have oined the back up and back up again club.
Soda

[Expresbro]

February 13, 2007 at 12:38 pm

I found the same Carl, although I had taken shots over the lost files so mine were probably worse. So much so that quite a few of them were almost like images shot at 640×480 even though they were at full res. Like you thre most affected ones were the darker shots.

Robbie
8)

[Thorsten]

February 13, 2007 at 1:39 pm

Expresbro wrote:

…almost like images shot at 640×480 even though they were at full res.

I suspect that these are most likely the thumbnail images that the camera uses to display on the camera screen and the original full sized-images are gone. Once you write over a file it’s pretty much impossible to recover it unless perhaps you have access to forensic grade data recovery applications.

[nolonger]

February 13, 2007 at 2:19 pm

I wouldn’t worry *too* much about deleting images on the fly as far as fragmented file systems go… you would have to take MANY shots and delete many shots on the fly to get a file system that was badly fragmented enough to be a serious problem. So long as you format between sessions (all this does, at least all it seems to do, is delete the FAT and create a new one, so it would be pretty hard for it to have an adverse effect) you should be perfectly fine.