Re: Corrupt card recovery

2005-04-27 Thread John Coyle
times as most in this group, as I'm as yet only up to some 1400 shots! John Coyle Brisbane, Australia - Original Message - From: David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:13 PM Subject: Re: Corrupt card recovery Mark, I had troubles early

Re: Corrupt card recovery

2005-04-27 Thread David Savage
: Re: Corrupt card recovery Mark, I had troubles early on with my *ist D. Sometimes I'd put the card in the card reader but there were no files visible. Put the card back in the camera there they were. I ended up using PC Inspector Smart Recovery to recover the images. I find

Re: Corrupt card recovery

2005-04-27 Thread Frantisek
Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 2:17:49 AM, Mark wrote: MC Good thing you were able to salvage most of the files. Keep us posted if MC you learn the ultimate cause of the problem. Well, it was batteries. That old Nikon is a power hog, and its battery meter is not so accurate (similar to IstD, from

Re: Corrupt card recovery

2005-04-27 Thread ernreed2
Quoting David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED]: G'day John, It may very well have been the card. It was a 256 Sandisk Ultra II. I don't use it much anymore and have had no problems at all since I got the same card in 1GB. Have you discussed this with Sandisk? The Ultra II has a lifetime warranty.

Re: Corrupt card recovery

2005-04-27 Thread David Savage
Oops, I think I've caused undue concern by wording my initial post poorly.g It was never a major problem. It only happened twice in the first week I had the camera and hasn't been a problem since. But after it happened the second time I started reformatting the card after downloading the files.

Re: Corrupt card recovery

2005-04-27 Thread Alan P. Hayes
This starts to sound familiar. I had a file corruption issue with my first few pictures on the istD which went away immediately on reformatting the card in the Pentax. It had previously been formatted in my Olympus C5050. I don't recall this happening when I switched from Nikon to Olympus, but

Re: Corrupt card recovery

2005-04-26 Thread David Mann
On Apr 26, 2005, at 12:54 PM, Joseph Tainter wrote: Sorry to hear about your problem, Fra. It seems to have been a bad tech day all around. It's because there are currently no sunspots. Spaceweather.com shows a new one just coming onto the Earth-facing side of the Sun so everything should be OK

Re: Corrupt card recovery

2005-04-26 Thread Mark Cassino
Good thing you were able to salvage most of the files. Keep us posted if you learn the ultimate cause of the problem. I downloaded the file recover software you mentioned, but it does not appear to recover PEF files so I couldn't test it. I downloaded and registered a program called

Re: Corrupt card recovery

2005-04-26 Thread Herb Chong
the card is failing. Herb - Original Message - From: Mark Cassino [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8:17 PM Subject: Re: Corrupt card recovery I downloaded the file recover software you mentioned, but it does not appear to recover PEF files

Re: Corrupt card recovery

2005-04-26 Thread David Savage
Mark, I had troubles early on with my *ist D. Sometimes I'd put the card in the card reader but there were no files visible. Put the card back in the camera there they were. I ended up using PC Inspector Smart Recovery to recover the images. I find that if I don't format the card after

Re: Corrupt card recovery

2005-04-25 Thread Gianfranco Irlanda
Frantisek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope it won't come again. Especially on a big event!!! All the politicians must have some bad karma radiating all around, I had shutter failure on D70 before when shooting an earlier event from the political crisis here g. It is 2:25 in the morning and

Re: Corrupt card recovery

2005-04-25 Thread Joseph Tainter
Sorry to hear about your problem, Fra. It seems to have been a bad tech day all around. Joe