[Deepsycher]

I Desperately need some help. I lost a months worth of photos on my camera and I am worried!

The Camera is an Olympus C 770 with one gigabyte memory XD card formatted as fat 16.

All I did:

It was working perfectly after recording some quality scenes of the birds outside and decided to plug it straight in to upload all the pictures. I renamed the directory to the date and then it wouldn't copy across.

I opened up the directory and it was full of files with strange characters and wrong file sizes on which wouldn't open. Only a few valid files at the bottom would copy and work. I think I need to find a way to save the drive before starting any recovery.

Before doing anything any experienced advice on procedures for this on recovery will be appreciated. Sorry but that was a MONTH'S worth of photos I carefully picked.

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 13 June 2006 - 03:52 PM

[Deepsycher]

Excellent, thanks for the help I get. Anyway thanks to Test Disk I got them recovered including some of the video clips. I have nothing to loose now. I think I know what might have caused it. They said the one gigabyte memory card had hardware problems with the Mpeg 4 codec and the audio capture on at the same time. I had small problems before with clips being unrecorded at the end with the audio on but I did not expect this. I think this could be the case of using one processor or function for everything because the optical zoom doen't work with the audio on. Next thing is to check the card for unnoticed damages.

The lesson for me is too always transfer anything special across as soon as possible.

Has anybody experienced the same problem?

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 14 June 2006 - 05:27 PM