I'd start with the recovery programs offered by the likes of the CF card
manufacturers. I don't know any details but I think they'd be the most
likely to offer a lot of function.
The biggest problem with Smart Recovery is that it started off assuming
the entire card was toast. In fact, the FAT was undamaged and contained
almost all the information required to recover everything quickly. And
even if the FAT was damaged it might still be largely recoverable.
Smart Recovery might even have been able to recover all or part of the
damaged JPEG if it had been smart enough to find it. It couldn't do
that nor even find the good files that were beyond it. Probably written
by a 13 year old kid.
Chuck Norcutt
John Hermanson wrote:
> Can you recommend a recovery program that does see raw files. I
> formatted a CF card, shot a half dozen raw pics and Zero assumption
> couldn't see them either.
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>>Chuck Norcutt wrote:
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>>>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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