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Failed Compact Flash
Ron Hawkes, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Rockland | ME | USA | Posted: 2:45 PM on 08.09.11 |
->> Had my first failed Compact Flash Card today. Shot some photos outdoors, looked through them on the camera during the shoot and when I got home to download them the message "This Card is Not Formatted, It is not readable on your computer" came up. No Photos.
Used RescuePro from Sandisk and it could not find any photos. I am bummed, it was a good photo shoot. Any idea's?
Nikon D3 with a SanDisk Extreme III 8G card |
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Stephen Brashear, Photographer, Assistant
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Seattle | WA | USA | Posted: 2:57 PM on 08.09.11 |
| ->> Ron - If you put the card back into the camera, do the photos show up? You might check the pins in the card reader to make sure they are not bent. |
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Mark Peters, Photographer
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Highland | IL | USA | Posted: 2:57 PM on 08.09.11 |
| ->> Long shot but put it back in the body and if it will still read it connect the body to your pc with a usb cord and see if you can download directly from the camera |
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Patrick Smith, Photographer
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Baltimore | MD | USA | Posted: 3:14 PM on 08.09.11 |
->> Had this happen in 2010. I ended up losing everything from a shoot (luckily it was only my wide stuff) doing the same thing you did.
Then it happen again, on a different card, days later. I shut down my laptop while the card was still in the card reader. After that, I pulled the card out once everything was powered down and then used a second carder reader. Luckily it worked.
Long story short, it ended up being my Lexar Firewire reader that was trashing my cards. They sent me a new reader and cable. |
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Curtis Clegg, Photographer
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Sycamore | IL | USA | Posted: 6:39 PM on 08.09.11 |
->> Ron I had the same thing happen a few weeks ago... this thread helped me a lot:
http://www.sportsshooter.com/message_display.html?tid=38500
I got everything back, and then I ditched that card. As long as the card will mount on your computer (even if no images show up), I think there's a pretty good chance you will be a able to recover most or all of your data. |
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Geoffrey Bolte, Photographer, Assistant
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Thompson | CT | USA | Posted: 6:42 PM on 08.09.11 |
->> Ron, tough break, but hate to say it the D3 does have 2 card slots. I always use the 2nd slot on my D3s as a back up. Will be upgrading my D700 and D300 to new cameras when they come with 2 card slots, even if it is CF/SD. Can't ever hurt to have a back up!!
Stephen has the right idea though, I had it happen to me once with my D300 and if I put it in the camera and transferred from there I was good. |
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Ron Hawkes, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Rockland | ME | USA | Posted: 5:56 PM on 08.10.11 |
->> Well turn's out I too think it is my card reader, Today I started a shoot and decided to check it using the same camera and a different card, almost same problem, would not read the card, this time I could still see them in the camera.
Used a different camera, different card and same thing. And Geoffrey, the back up was on, same problem with that one.
So I will get a new card reader tomorrow and a couple of new cards, but will use an old one first to be sure that is the problem.
Thanks everyone for the help and suggestions.
Ron |
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Mike Carlson, Photographer
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Bayonet Point | FL | USA | Posted: 9:23 PM on 08.10.11 |
->> I hate to pile on Lexar, but I had the same thing a couple of weeks ago...used Lexar FireWire reader and two Lexar Pro 600x cards went bad with same messages as Ron in his original post.
Shot on different cameras, so know that wasn't the problem. One card went when I was downloading when I arrived back from Europe and lost a portrait shoot of the friend's family I had stayed with - knew it was on the card since I tethered it to my iPad and we looked through them over there.
Emailed Lexar support and their reply was "rare, but cards fail". That night was shooting Yankees v Rays, and in the 7th inning I put in a card for ingest and after downloading a couple of the tagged images first it froze up and went back to same problem messages.
I called Lexar the next day and was on phone with 4 different people over course of almost an hour - I can deal with losing some family pictures, but having the unreliability when on assignment was scaring me. Their reply? Odds of two cards going bad are even more than rare, so I had essentially "won the lottery" (their words) as they dismissed any suggestion it might be their brand card reader.
I went ahead and scrapped the readers, picked up new ones and haven't had the problem since. (though, with tonight's PowerBall @ $220 million I'm still hoping on that lottery thing...) |
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Robert Hanashiro, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | | Posted: 1:03 AM on 08.11.11 |
->> Thank your luck stars that it was not a "Killer Card".
Stay tuned ... details in the news Sports Shooter Newsletter. |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 9:53 AM on 08.11.11 |
->> Ron I had the same thing happen to me a few years back. Shot a game then when I tried to ingest the card it failed. The next day it happened again AND not only did my card fail but the card of the person shooting for me failed as well. Turned out that the expresscard reader that I was using was pinched and shorting out.
I was able to recover the card by popping it into my ColorSpace drive and running the hardware recovery utility. The ColorSpace recovered 99% of the images even though other software methods failed. I used the device again last year on a fellow SS member's card to recover images that had eluded other recovery attempts. I'm not sure what or how the ColorSpace unit recovers files but I have found that it has been able to do what other programs can't. If you have access to one you may want to give it a shot. If not and you really want to try to recover the files, drop me a note.
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Randy Sartin, Photographer, Assistant
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