Many thanks to everyone that replied with help...especially those that proffered the Photorescue solution:
http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/ Clever one with this is the demo letting you see if the images are retrievable before having to commit to buy, but at $29 a worthy investment to keep on the laptop anyway. Seems to have saved the files back to the hard drive on the laptop - I'm having to re-name the raws and the thumbs separately to get them into the Canon Image Browser or Capture One, but its a start.....has just processed first test in Capture One and it appears to have been sucessful, (yet won't process in 16 bit only 8 bit...? Any suggestions on that one) Consensus of opinion seems to be to ditch the microdrives and go solid state with the Lexars (especially as Lexar bundle data retrieval software with their cards) For those that are interested - the problems seemed to start when the internal battery of the D60 expired mid-write during a session a couple of weeks ago - intuition smelt something wrong with the slowness of the card, writing data etc culminating in the flashing question mark over the bank holiday. I did go against all advice and run disk utility on the Mac to unerase all on the microdrive and then reformatted it in the Canon - seems to be singing sweetly now - until the next time ! ! ! Glad it didn't happen on a commission - what are peoples' excuses these days now we can't blame the labs? Aside from Monty Pythons 'crossbeams gone skew on t'treadle' How about: 'I'm sorry sir but it appeared to have fallen down the back of the server!' Many thanks to all again Best wishes Graeme C Graeme Cooper Photography http://www.bungalow-zen.com A Member of The Association of Photographers http://www.aop.org =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
