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Faulty memory card

June 23, 2010 By Peter

I was handed an SD memory card tonight which had over 300 images on it. The problem was that the card was no longer readable on several laptops and a desktop PC. It seemed that all was lost. I searched on Google (love Google) and found this listing of 17 free file recovery programs.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecovery/tp/free-file-recovery-programs.htm

File-recoveryI tried the first program in the list Recuva without success and proceeded to try the rest.

The second program was DiskDigger and it worked. I was pleasantly surprised as the program found 318 image files that otherwise seemed lost. I proceeded to recover the files one by one as this was the only way to use the free version. After a few images, I decided it was easier to buy a licence which was about $18 AUD and then all images were recovered in a few seconds. It was money well spent. The suspect memory card may be usable again if formatted but why take the risk. It was consigned to the trash.

I cannot stress enough how important it is to backup everything that is important to you. Memory cards, hard drives, CD/DVD’s will fail at some point in time, that is 100% guaranteed. It is best to backup everything in at least three different locations.

–  Peter

Filed Under: Tech notes Tagged With: Memory cards

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