Can you recommend a recovery program that does see raw files. I
formatted a CF card, shot a half dozen raw pics and Zero assumption
couldn't see them either.
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John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington NY 11743
631-424-2121 | Olympus OM Service since 1977
http://www.zuiko.com | omtech1 AT verizon.net
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> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
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>>A couple of days ago John Hermanson reported that he had heard good
>>words about the capabilities of a file recovery program for flash cards.
>><http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm>
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>>I downloaded the program (bypassing one error message) and thought that
>>I would probably wait years to try it out. I've never had a problem
>>with any of my CF cards.
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>>Well, I didn't have to wait long. While out shooting today with the
>>camera set for both raw and large JPEG's I shut the camera off
>>prematurely. I thought the OFF switch was a soft switch and that the
>>camera wouldn't power down until any I/O activity was completed.
>>Apparently not so for the 5D. The raw file was successfully saved but
>>the JPEG was still being written when the power dropped and that file
>>ended up corrupted.
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>>I had thought I was through shooting but eventually turned the camera
>>back on an and shot another fourteen frames beyond the corrupted one
>>which, at that point, I didn't know was corrupted.
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>>When trying to download with Downloader Pro I got an error message
>>saying that an I/O error had been recevied from the media and the file
>>was corrupted. The download stopped after the error without fetching
>>the remaining fourteen good frames. It did tell me, however, that those
>>files existed and I was able to successfully download the remainder by
>>specifically selecting them without the corrupted file included in the
>>download request. In other words, just ask it to go around the bad spot
>>and not try to go through it.
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>>Since the raw file had been downloaded there was really no reason to try
>>to recover the JPEG. However, since I knew I had prematurely shut off
>>the camera at the point of failure I suspected that the file was, at
>>mimimum, incomplete but I was curious to see what Smart Recovery would
>>be able to do.
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>>Well, the answer is not inspiring. First, it can only recover JPEGS.
>>It knows not of any kind of raw files. Secondly it's just plain pretty
>>dumb. After running for about 2 hours through my 1.6GB of images data
>>it managed to recover only the JPEGS up to the same point that
>>Downloader Pro had gotten to in a couple of minutes. Did Smart Recovery
>> report an I/O error and corrupted file as Downloader Pro did. No.
>>It just quitely quit completely as though is had successfully read
>>everything on the media. There was no hint of any error condition ot
>>that there might be recoverable data beyond the point of the error.
>>
>>I recommend that everyone skip this one and find something else. This
>>one is not ready for prime time and I have just uninstalled mine.
>>
>>Chuck Norcutt
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