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Help! Corrupt cf card
Jason Myers, Photographer
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West Palm Beach | FL | USA | Posted: 11:24 PM on 05.16.11 |
->> Hoping I can get some guidance here. Shot event this evening and upon import of my lexar 400x 16gig card nothing appeared. Ran through photo rescue and it appears there are only severly pixelated files showiing up. Never had this happen before and the card is fairly new. The images appeared just before trying to ingest into photo mechanic.
Any advice, suggestions much appreciated. This is a new client and it will absolutely suck if I can't recover the images.
thanks in advance
Jason |
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Israel Shirk, Photographer, Assistant
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Nick Morris, Photographer
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San Diego | CA | USA | Posted: 1:02 AM on 05.17.11 |
| ->> You can try Rescue by SanDisc. If that doesn't work then your only hope would be a hot tub time machine. |
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Tod Gomes, Photographer
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Pleasant Hill | CA | USA | Posted: 2:09 AM on 05.17.11 |
| ->> I have used "Recover My Files" program before on a hard drive and this program was able to recover just as much as Drive Savers was at a fraction of the cost. The website is www.recovermyfiles.com. It says on the website that you can use it for "camera card" too. |
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Jason Myers, Photographer
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West Palm Beach | FL | USA | Posted: 2:10 AM on 05.17.11 |
->> I was able to get Image Rescue 4 by Lexar to recover almost all the images...whew...Photo Rescue didn't work btw.
Thanks Nick for the laugh after reading the previous suggestion to have the second card slot as backup. |
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Jeroen de Jong, Photographer
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Waalwijk | _ | Netherlands | Posted: 6:41 AM on 05.17.11 |
->> Glad to read that you have almost all of the images back.
Now, contact Lexas with the problem to get it replaced and don't use this card ever again (throw it away). |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 8:25 AM on 05.17.11 |
| ->> Had almost the same thing happen two weeks ago. ingested most of the images in PM but there were some hinky ones (file unreadable)....took the card out of the card reader and put it back in the camera (mark IV). a red light came on although the camera was off. turned camera on and got a warning code about wrong format, tried to reformat the card and it wouldn't reformat in any of my cameras or the computer....tried image rescue (sandisk) and that doesn't work worth a damn on lexar cards. after your problem I'm wondering if there is a bad batch of new lexar cards out there...because that sucker is dead. |
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Dennis Wierzbicki, Photographer
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Plainfield | IL | USA | Posted: 9:34 AM on 05.17.11 |
->> Jason, sorry to hear about your problems, but glad you were able to get most of your images back. I'm surprised to hear PhotoRescue was unable to recover your shots, as the few times I have needed to use it, it has performed flawlessly.
My most recent card corruption crisis occurred a couple weeks ago, while covering a basketball game, and attempting to ingest and submit images on deadline. During a TV time-out in the middle of the first quarter, I hustled to the media room and while ingesting my first card, I experienced a program crash/quit of PhotoMechanic which caused my CF card to become unreadable and make it appear that I had lost all files on the card. After my panic subsided, I opened PhotoRescue and was able to quickly recover every last file on the card, import them back into Photo Mechanic, complete my edit/caption/upload workflow, and get back on the floor to continue shooting, all before the end of the first quarter.
Needless to say, I cannot sing the praises of PhotoRescue high enough or loud enough. |
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Jeff Stanton, Photographer
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Princeton | IN | USA | Posted: 9:44 AM on 05.17.11 |
| ->> I would also contact Lexar about returning the card. I had a similar experience last year and Lexar replaced the card. No problems since. |
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Richard Shiro, Photographer
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Greenville | SC | USA | Posted: 11:00 AM on 05.17.11 |
| ->> Chuck, I am thinking like you about a bad batch. I've had two Lexar cards go bad in the last month. |
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Jason Myers, Photographer
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West Palm Beach | FL | USA | Posted: 7:59 PM on 05.17.11 |
->> This particular card was only about a month old and I have another 3 that now I'm worried about. Never had an issue like this with a card and it made me nervous on at shoot today that I baby stepped it through removing and ingesting. Maybe I did something on removal of the card, but I don't think I did anything different than any other time. I"m going to call Lexar in the morning and see if I can get a replacement and an answer or two. Things happen, I'm just glad I was able to recover the majority of my images.
The Photo Rescue images were literally just colorful pixels and no "image" to speak of when recovered. The Lexar software worked much better and maybe because it's proprietary or something to the Lexar cards. I've had good success with Photo Rescue when I've accidentally erased cards and recovered the images nicely. Thanks for the sounding board.
All the best. |
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Rafael Agustin Delgado, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Pasadena | Ca | USA | Posted: 8:09 PM on 05.17.11 |
->> Data Rescue
http://datarescue.com/
Always have had great results with this program.
It is nice how it previews the data before one forks over the money to purchase the program. Also like how this one is just a one time purchase. No renewal fees.
Good Luck. |
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Sherrlyn Borkgren, Photographer
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Eugene | OR | USA | Posted: 3:08 AM on 05.29.11 |
->> There are a lot of bad reveiws of recent both in Britain and the US on Lexar cards and their customer service. I will be buying new cards since all mine have disappeared with my computer.
I'm looking at Sandisk. Anyone have anything to say about these? Sorry to leave Lexar but with the reviews and fro what I'm hearing on this board I don't want to take chances. Customer service means a lot to me and if I cannot get ahold of a human when I have a problem I'd just as soon move on. If you have a good experience with resolving your issues with your cards please let us know on here. |
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Curtis Clegg, Photographer
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Sycamore | IL | USA | Posted: 8:20 AM on 05.29.11 |
->> The only problem I have ever read about with SanDisk was a spate of counterfeiting back in the Ultra II days:
http://reviews.ebay.com/FAKE-SanDisk-Ultra-Compact-Flash-Cards-Exposed_W0QQ...
At the time there were some eBay sellers who apparently continued to sell these counterfeit cards even after they learned that fact. There were even some reputable retailers who got some counterfeits in their supply chain. I haven't heard much about the issue lately but I have no doubt that the counterfeiters are still out there (especially on eBay) and that their products are harder to spot.
I was burned on a counterfeit SanDisk USB drive about that time; luckily I didn't lose anything important.
I can't help but wonder if the recent problems with Lexar cards are not due to Lexar QC, but counterfeiting. I haven't any details either way but it's something to consider.
Buying from a trusted and reputable retailer is at least as important as buying an established brand. Best o' luck in replacing all of your lost stuff! |
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Curtis Clegg, Photographer
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Sycamore | IL | USA | Posted: 11:28 AM on 05.29.11 |
->> I did some more research on counterfeit cards this morning and thought I'd post a followup to my earlier post.
There are reports bouncing around cyberspace that "a third of the SanDisk memory cards being used on Earth are actually fake":
http://www.petapixel.com/2011/05/20/one-third-of-the-sandisk-memory-cards-o.../
(referencing the original source... the comments on both pages are worth reading):
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/05/co...
I haven't found much about counterfeit Lexar cards for some reason so that probably isn't what caused Jason's card to fail, but you never know. I'd love to hear what Lexar says about your failed card if you send it to them.
I'd guess that very few (if any) Ridata, Kingston or Transcend cards on the market are counterfeit since the demand for them is considerably less than for Lexar and SanDisk products.
Sherryln I'm more convinced now that to get a quality card, the brand is less important than the retailer. |
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Tim Cowie, Photographer
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Davidson | NC | USA | Posted: 10:26 AM on 06.01.11 |
->> Okay folks, since we are talking about corrupt cards, how about replacing some of those cards.
Does anyone know who might have some deals on CF cards - ideally 16Gb?
SanDisk would be ideal, Lexar next (worried about a bad batch on the marketplace).
Anyone know of anything out there??? Rebates????
Thanks! |
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Phil Hawkins, Photographer
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Fresno | ca | usa | Posted: 10:53 AM on 06.01.11 |
->> Sherrlyn, I've said it before and I'll say it again; I have never, never, had a problem with SanDisk. Never heard of anyone having a problem... I've washed them, frozen them, one even took a bullet for a guy in Iraq, saved his life and still worked even with a huge dent in the middle. I just have to wonder why there would be any confusion about which brand to buy. Looking for "deals" on a very inexpensive piece of equipment is a penny-wise and WAY dollar-foolish endeavor. Further, buy only from B&H, Adorama or a trusted local shop to avoid knock-offs. Thank goodness CF cards is the one thing I don't have to worry about.
Now, if you want to talk about defective equipment, let's talk about Hoya polarizing filters; in my workshops just in the last 3 weeks, 4, that's F-O-U-R have fallen apart in my or my students hands, one on the first time he used it, bought the day before from the Ansel Adams Gallery in YNP. |
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