Ever got a "Card Error"?

[CAW]

Have you ever pulled a card and found that it was corrupted or needed to be formatted? I pulled a card the other day and viewed some nice bucks on my laptop - I always carry a small laptop with me to quickly check cards for camera placement. When I arrived home to import the pics into my desktop, the card would not read and said that it needed to be formatted. Formatting of course, deletes all data. So, I dug around on YouTube and found this great video with a link for FREE software. I followed the directions and recovered all of my pics. Worked like a charm and I thought someone here could use the same help at some point in the future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M67kzSHm90

 

[Kirk]

Yes it has happened to me. Thanks for the link.

 

[MUP]

Great info, thanks for posting it!

 

[AROD]

Thanks, I've had the same problem

 

[DaveB]

Removing storage (the card) from a device that has power, can cause that "card error" problem. best way is to pop a battery out, pull the card, replace the card, battery back in, power on.

You may have pulled the card while the camera was trying to write to the card or was polling it as part of a routine process. The images are there but the index is messed up and an index that cannot be read means the pics cannot be retrieved through normal means.