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[OM] Re: A not so favorable report on PC Inspector Smart Recovery

Subject: [OM] Re: A not so favorable report on PC Inspector Smart Recovery
From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:00:35 -0500
Thank you for the complete test and thumbs down.  The fact that it does 
not recognize raw files is a huge negativo.

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John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington NY 11743
631-424-2121 | Olympus OM Service since 1977
http://www.zuiko.com  |  omtech1 AT verizon.net


Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> A couple of days ago John Hermanson reported that he had heard good 
> words about the capabilities of a file recovery program for flash cards.
> <http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm>
> 
> I downloaded the program (bypassing one error message) and thought that 
> I would probably wait years to try it out.  I've never had a problem 
> with any of my CF cards.
> 
> Well, I didn't have to wait long.  While out shooting today with the 
> camera set for both raw and large JPEG's I shut the camera off 
> prematurely.  I thought the OFF switch was a soft switch and that the 
> camera wouldn't power down until any I/O activity was completed. 
> Apparently not so for the 5D.  The raw file was successfully saved but 
> the JPEG was still being written when the power dropped and that file 
> ended up corrupted.
> 
> I had thought I was through shooting but eventually turned the camera 
> back on an and shot another fourteen frames beyond the corrupted one 
> which, at that point, I didn't know was corrupted.
> 
> When trying to download with Downloader Pro I got an error message 
> saying that an I/O error had been recevied from the media and the file 
> was corrupted.  The download stopped after the error without fetching 
> the remaining fourteen good frames.  It did tell me, however, that those 
> files existed and I was able to successfully download the remainder by 
> specifically selecting them without the corrupted file included in the 
> download request.  In other words, just ask it to go around the bad spot 
> and not try to go through it.
> 
> Since the raw file had been downloaded there was really no reason to try 
> to recover the JPEG.  However, since I knew I had prematurely shut off 
> the camera at the point of failure I suspected that the file was, at 
> mimimum, incomplete but I was curious to see what Smart Recovery would 
> be able to do.
> 
> Well, the answer is not inspiring.  First, it can only recover JPEGS. 
> It knows not of any kind of raw files.  Secondly it's just plain pretty 
> dumb.  After running for about 2 hours through my 1.6GB of images data 
> it managed to recover only the JPEGS up to the same point that 
> Downloader Pro had gotten to in a couple of minutes.  Did Smart Recovery 
>    report an I/O error and corrupted file as Downloader Pro did.  No. 
> It just quitely quit completely as though is had successfully read 
> everything on the media.  There was no hint of any error condition ot 
> that there might be recoverable data beyond the point of the error.
> 
> I recommend that everyone skip this one and find something else.  This 
> one is not ready for prime time and I have just uninstalled mine.
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
> 
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