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Old 09-05-2011, 12:14 AM   #1
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OK, hoping to get some CP help here, after a night of Googling.

I took my SDHC card out of my camera (Panasonic Lumix) and put it in my card reader. When I did, Win7 told me that I needed to format the card. I put it back in the camera and got an error message that it can't be read.

To make a long story short, according to chkdsk, the card is in raw format (not RAW as in photo) and thus cannot be read.

So, my question is, does anyone know a way to recover the photos on there? I found some software products, but most are paid, and free ones like PhotoRec and Zero Assumption find nothing on my card.

My gut says that it basically needs to have some type of formatting on it, but I don't want to reformat it in case of losing the pictures.

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Old 09-05-2011, 09:05 AM   #2
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Try Recuva from Piriform.

edit: If that doesnt work check out the data recovery thread, clone the drive and look for the links for Testdisk.
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Old 09-05-2011, 09:24 AM   #3
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Thanks for the link for Recuva - giving it a shot. I've been playing with Testdisk since last night, and It's just a bit over my head. I'll go read the thread though in case there's anything that will help me navigate it.

Edit: ok, i think i got testdisk to detect the data. It now says there is a FAT partition on the card...if that's good news. I used it to repair a partition (on a flash drive, go figure)

Editx2: now doing that got PhotoRec to detect the card! - I've recovered 10 so far - cross fingers.
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