CF card crashed. Any way to recover RAW files?

[jack2964]

Been out shooting several hundred pics and was in the process of culling on my laptop as I often do using Irfanview.

Only managed a few and suddenly Irfanview hung up and I waited till it became functional again but then I couldn't view any more files.

reinserting CF card causes pop-up msg to say reformat card. Moved CF card to desktop...same same nil joy!

Is there any solution you guys may be aware of? Thanks!

[SoiBiker]

I'd do as little as possible to the card itself to avoid any further data loss. Make a bit-for-bit image of it using something like dd, then attempt to recover the filesystem from that using the appropriate tools for whichever filesystem it's formatted with.

[jack2964]

D/loaded Recuva as suggested (freebie version), ran it but it didn't work for me. Came back with 'Unable to determine file system type'. Thanks MJCM.

Wouldn't know where to start with Soi Biker's suggestion. Thanks anyway.

[jack2964]

After bumbling along I found this on the net: http://www.z-a-recovery.com/download.aspx

It worked for me! If anyone encounters a similar problem with their memory cards this could save a lot of grief.

[samuijimmy]

It could be the card reader acting up, perhaps worth trying another reader!

[jack2964]

It could be the card reader acting up, perhaps worth trying another reader!

SJ I did that too but same result.

Anyway all's well now.

[samuijimmy]

Bugger! I just tried to load up todays images and my new card reader has gone south I can still see the images on the camera, when I put the card back in!