>> And, more important, I contacted the seller, and they will most likely replace >> the card with a 1Gb Ultra-II card and send the old one in to Sandisk under >> guarantee. That would be a great replacement, so I am not trying to 'FIX' the >> card now if I can get a faster and new card instead :-)
Well, I went to the dealer yesterday, and they simply exchanged the defective Sandisk 1Gb card (which I bought USED from them btw :-) by a brand new Sandisk Ultra II of the same capacity. Perfect service! Another nice bonus is that I also received the mini CDROM that comes with new Sandisk cards, and that has an interesting piece of recovery software on it. It is called "Sandisk ResquePRO 2.0" and is intended to recover deleted or otherwise lost images from any removale medium. The interesting things is, I had a card with ONE image on it (a Pentax RAW file) which was not seen by that software initially (as expected). After deleting the file, and re-scanning the media, it DID show this deleted file (with the first letter changed to '#'). Much to my surprise, when i clicked on it, it OPENED the file correctly in the Pentax PhotoBrowser! So you can recover RAW files just as easy as JPGs which is quite nice! Recovery means copying the file (data) to another drive, it is not an in-place undelete ... Regards, JvW PS: The image shown in the PentaxBrowser is actually a copy they create in the TEMP directory ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery
