Frank,
I just had a hard drive accident while on a boat trip on Lake Michigan . . . long story short, an entire days worth of shots (approximately 230) were lost from the hard drive, and I had already formated the 2 cards I had used to take these shots. I shot some pictures onto each of these cards before discovering the loss. After worrying for a few days, I finally arrived home, downloaded one of the pieces of software that lets you 'undelete' and found about 75% of my pictures remained on the cards (because I stopped shooting on them as soon as I discovered the loss).
My summary: I believe that the card just clears the FAT and resets the two directories that it needs.
IL Bill
P.S. Unfortuanatly, I still lost at least 5 good pictures that I was contemplating having blown up. I can probably get the pictures again, but not without considerable cost.
On Jul 30, 2004, at 9:08 AM, Frantisek Vlcek wrote:
Thanks!
I will try it out when I return from the weekend.
BTW, how does a digital SLR format the card? Does it just erase the FAT, or does it do a complete format? It seems quick so it would just erase the FAT or something. I am looking at the possibility of unformating a formatted card (for PJing, when the officer wants your card, and you can play it down to just formatting it)
Frantisek
