Digital BW, The Print

This is my theory of how this happens to memory cards:  When the write to
card is interrupted for any reason, an incomplete image/file is created.
This file doesn't have the proper end of file or some other significant
code. An attempt to read, write or format the card becomes impossible by
resulting in an infinite attempt to read.

Reformatting may have doomed your files.

I use a program which I downloaded for free to recover lost images. When the
images are read there is usually one which is truncated, but the recovery
program gives it the necessary coding to be read.

I have had luck in recovering the seemingly fried cards by putting them in
another brand of camera which doesn't read the existing files and formatting
there.

Then the card can be properly formatted in the original camera.

Avery



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