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Re: OT Steve's fried flash card recovery

2004-01-09 by Stephen Kobrin

Avery,

Thanks.  It was a camera problem, rather than the card.  

Steve

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Avery Minor" 
<digital4mat@g...> wrote:
> Steve:
> 
>  
> 
> I have been able to "fix" several flash cards in this state very 
simply.
> 
>  
> 
> It seems the cards become inaccessible to the original camera when 
loading
> or display is stopped by battery failure or user shutdown during 
writing or
> reading the card.
> 
>  
> 
> I put the card in another brand or different version of a 
manufacturer's
> camera and format it. Then it will work in the original camera after
> reformatting there as well.
> 
>  
> 
> If the pictures are important, there are recovery programs which 
work with
> external card readers connected to a computer.
> 
>  
> 
> Avery
> 
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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