Life is good take heart you might be able to recover it all.
Utility for corrupt memory cards
I had a SmartMedia card “go bad” on me on a recent trip to France, after
having taken quite a number of photos I really didn’t want to have go away.
I had another smaller backup card which I used, thinking that maybe, when I
got home, I might be able to recover the images on the card that went bad.
I should mention that the “bad” card, when inserted into the camera, said it
needed to be formatted.
Tonight I did a quick Google search and came upon something called “Zero
Assumption Recovery” utility, and gave it a try. Voila, even though my
desktop computer also said the card required formatting, this utility read
everything on the card and offloaded it to a file on my hard drive. Life is
good!
Please note this utility should work well on any type of memory card that
can be seen as a drive on your computer (SmartMedia, MMC, CF, etc).
Basically, anything you have a card reader for.
This is freeware, by the way, although you can buy a more-capable version
for $99. But for my case, the freeware utility did everything I needed. It
may be found here-
http://www.z-a-recovery.com/download.htm
Hope this is helpful to others!
(For google purposes, I’m going to toss some stuff in here that might help
others to find this message, since I’ve seen many others looking for
something like this in the past-)
Smartmedia utility
Corrupt smartmedia
Smartmedia file recovery
If it does not work you can go through this link to find the right solution to your problem.
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