Sorry to hear of your difficulties, Rob. May I ask what brand the cards are?
As you may know SanDisk offers a recovery software. In addition to that, there are these: http://download.cnet.com/SDHC-Card-Recovery-Pro/3000-2248_4-75904835.html http://sd-card-format-recovery.soft112.com/ http://www.reclaime.com/library/memory-card-recovery.aspx No personal experience with any of them. Good luck. On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm very sorry to hear this, Rob. I wonder if you are seeing a similar > issue to what I saw very early on. I shot some stuff and returning > home I couldn't unload my card because it couldn't be read in my Mac. > The Mac unmounted the card shortly after insertion saying it had > damaged formating. And I couldn't convince the Disk Utility to repair > it either. > > Can you see the card content when inserted into the K-3? > > What I determined was that I had failed to reformat the SD card > immediately after purchase. After reformating (in-camera) that card > and another of the same type that I purchased later I have not had any > further problems after thousands of frames taken. > > After this incident I did switch the K-3 to dual (ie redundant) write > mode and I always have two cards inserted. I wasn't going to take any > more chances. :-( > > BTW, sadly I lost the content of that "damaged formating" card. I > could see the images when the card was in the K-3 but nothing I did > allowed me to extract that data, even over a USB cable. I was sorely > pissed off. > > Something I never tried doing was to mount the card under Windows and > use format repair utilities on it. I regret failing to try that but it > didn't occur to me at the time. > > I hope you have better luck. > > > On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Rob Studdert <[email protected]> wrote: >> Well I'm just about toast if my card recovery doesn't go well, I shot >> a show last night, a fairly important one in fact and of three card >> used in the K3 only one is readable. The one card is a month or two >> old and the others I have had for a while and operated without a >> problem. All cards were formatted in camera before the gig so should >> be error free. >> >> I have the K3 set up to cascade from card 1 to 2 and when card two was >> full I replaced card 1 with an empty card and that's the only one that >> I can read. All 32 GB cards so 64GB of images are lost in the ether >> currently, feeling a bit ill and somewhat less than complimentary >> about the reliability of the K3 :( >> >> -- >> Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) >> Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours >> Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
