Oh Poopie! Help with my photo card, please.

Sigma 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6 EX Aspherical DG HSM for Nikon

06/01/2023 05:05:10 PM · #1

My card is corrupt.

My card reader used to see one folder (out of two) on it. I chose to "scan and fix" from my computer. When I open the one directory it is empty. The other directory is completely gone.

I put it in my camera and it says "no image".

Help!!!

The little gray thing (write protect switch) on the side is gone, too (but after the trouble happened).

SanDisk Extreme Pro 32 gb

Now the camera says "Card's write protect switch is set to lock" (but it's missing).

Help!

Message edited by author 2023-06-01 17:12:50.

bohemka

Nikon D700

06/01/2023 05:23:25 PM · #2

I am not remotely qualified to help with this problem, but it's the internet! I would try a pin or phone SIM-card-eject thingamajigger to try to slide the card lock into the unlock position.

Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM

06/01/2023 05:26:15 PM · #3

Good ideas! Thank you!

The card lock thing fell out and I can't find it.

I've ordered a new sd card (for delivery tomorrow), which I will try to mangle the slide lock thing out of it and put it into the damaged card.

My concern is that the damaged card didn't work even when it was unlocked. Missing files.

sanders

Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i

06/01/2023 05:26:32 PM · #4

I am not qualified either but I totally feel your pain! I lost a whole external drive full of photos once and never could figure out how to get them back. That hurt!

06/01/2023 05:52:47 PM · #5

Originally posted by sanders:

I am not qualified either but I totally feel your pain! I lost a whole external drive full of photos once and never could figure out how to get them back. That hurt!

Thank you!

I searched and found that all I have to do to replace the unlock slider is to put a piece of tape on it, which I have done.

So, that's fixed, but... it still doesn't have any files.

06/01/2023 06:05:25 PM · #6

Ok... now I used the tape over the write switch, used the computer CMD mode (found on internet) to diagnose the problem.

It is now telling me:

C:\Users\theon>chkdsk d:/f
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume EOS_DIGITAL created 10/1/2022 4:44 PM
Volume Serial Number is 1901-1056
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.

Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.
31,154,688 KB total disk space.
64 KB in 2 hidden files.
128 KB in 4 folders.
365,600 KB in 78 files.
30,788,864 KB are available.

32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.
973,584 total allocation units on disk.
962,152 allocation units available on disk.

This means it's wiped, right?

Is there any hope?

06/01/2023 06:10:28 PM · #7

4 folders, 78 files.

06/01/2023 06:11:35 PM · #8

Hmm. Not much size to those files though.

06/01/2023 06:12:49 PM · #9

I'm supposed to have eight months of photos on there.

Many thousands of images.

06/01/2023 06:13:21 PM · #10

365Mb. That's not nothing.

File recovery software?

06/01/2023 06:14:41 PM · #11

Thank you for caring! I really appreciate it.

Does anyone have software they recommend for uncorrupting SD cards?

06/01/2023 06:15:41 PM · #12

Ping Wendy. She went thru this recently.

Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS

06/01/2023 06:20:35 PM · #13

Oh yeah! Thanks!

vawendy

Sony Alpha 1

06/01/2023 06:42:36 PM · #14

Originally posted by Lydia:

Oh yeah! Thanks!

I didn't have much luck. There are a lot of recovery programs, some that are really good, but they all seem to cost a stupid amount of money. :(