I recently spent two months in Australia with a great group of people and we took tons of pictures using our digital cameras. Anyhow, a few of were fiddling around with another girl's camera when a third person accidentally formatted all of her pictures from the past two weeks. She took one more picture on that card to check if there were actually all gone (she discovered they were). After that, I quickly stopped her and told her not to take anymore photos using that memory card since I thought that it might still be possible to recover the images by either using some program or by sending the card into a data recovery place.
Anyhow, she has a PNY 128MB Smart Media card and the pictures were taken using a Fujifilm FinePix S602Zoom digital camera. I've checked a few places online that suggest that the pictures can be recovered, but they all note that they recover from "corrupted" drives/cards. My first thoughts were that by formatting the card, the camera basically just freed up all that space and told the camera that the pictures didn't exist and that it could write over that disk space. In actuality, the pictures are still there, just not recognized. Is this correct or are the pictures gone for good?
Also, if you think that we could still recover the pictures, does any know of any companies that you know to be, or have heard to be, reliable and offer a competitive price? Or is there any software that you know of that you know to have recovered photos from formatted cards?
As the digitalization concept is growing day-by-day, the need for data recovery is also increasing in a rapid manner. Because none of us would like to lose our important information because of not taking enough precautions to protect them.
Dont worry, you are able to recover lost files from formatted smartmedia memory card. You may take a look at this memory card recovery guide that helped me before: Recover formatted files from memory card hope this helps you get back your files.
The program I have had gret success with is "smart recovery, it is very easy to use and best of all it's free. It's available here:
http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/smartrecovery.html
In an attempt to reproduce your problem I tried formatting my card which had 5 images on it. I then run smart recovery and it found all 5 images plus 32 other previously erased images, one of which was corrupted. ( I didn't restore these on the card so the card was still formatted and empty) I then took another picture on the card and run smart image again, it again found 37 images, the corrupted one had been replaced by my new image.
You do need to do this with a card reader on your PC, it is unlikely to work with your camera connected directly to the computer.
Good luck
You're right.
Formatting in-camera will only reset the two File Allocation Tables, which act as a pointer to where the data really resides.
The data (pictures) should remain safe until they are overwritten (the File Allocation Tables will have been marked to show their positions as being overwriteable).
There are lots of solutions, the most expensive, is to send the card to a data recovery place (I don't know from your profile, where you are, but Fuji UK has a very good data recovery department, for just such a problem).
Another way, is to use data recovery software. These, on the whole, work very well, and vary in price from zero, to a few hundred bucks. I've found little difference in quality between them.
However, the easiest and currently most popular, seems to be F-Recovery...
http://www.filerecoverytools.com/products/fr_smartmedia/
It is no better than most of the freeware tools out there, it's just easier for a novice to follow.
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Sorry, but your camera only can work with SmartMedia cards. These cards are no longer common use. I your camera still can make great pictures, it must be like 12 years of age. It will be difficult to get memory cards for it. Don't try to put a card in the camera other than a SmartMedia, or you will decently damage the camera.
If you are trying to recover your data from a formatted memory card then try - RECUVARecuva (pronounced"recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that havebeen accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied fromthe Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted byuser error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bringback files that have been deleted from your iPod, or by bugs, crashes andviruses!
Simple to use interface - just click 'Scan' and choose the files you want to recover
Easy to use filter for results based on file name/type
Simple Windows like interface with List and Tree view
Can be run from a USB thumb drive
Restores all types of files, office documents, images, video, music, email, anything.
Restores files from removable media (SmartMedia, Secure Digital, MemoryStick, Digital cameras, Floppy disks, Jazz Disks, Sony Memory Sticks, Compact Flash cards, Smart Media Cards, Secure Digital Cards, etc.)
Restores files from external ZIP drives, Firewire and USB Hard drives
Check to see if you formatted the card as some cards are sold not formatted and some require it to be formatted in the camera before use. Check your manual.
GOOGLE IMAGE RESCUE 3 ,WHEN IT SAYS,RUN OR SAVE,
SAVE IT IN MY DOCUMENTS, CLICK ON IT TO LOAD PROGRAM ON
COMPUTER.USE CARD-READER, PUT CARD IN WHEN ITS PLUGGED INTO COMPUTER.
RUN IMAGE RESCUE 3 YOU SHOULD SEE WHERE TO SCAN
FOR IMAGES.
ALWAYS FORMAT CARD AFTER IMAGES HAVE BEEN REMOVED
DO THIS IN CAMERA NOT CARD-READER.
BURN IMAGE RESCUE 3 TO DISC YOU ALWAYS HAVE PROGRAM.
The FinePix 6900 Zoom uses SmartMedia (3.3v) for image storage, and
a 16MB card is supplied with the camera. Upgrades are available up to 128MB.
The entire SmartMedia card can be write-protected by placing a small sticker
on the indicated area of the card. Write-protection stickers can only be used
once, and they must be clean to be effective. Individual images can be protected
through the Playback menu, which prevents them from being accidentally deleted
(except through card formatting).
Your camera takes SmartMedia cards of up to 64Mb capacity (it cannot use the 126Mb versions).
They're no longer made and so demand makes the few left quite expensive, but you may find them for free on either your local FreeCycle or Freegle groups.
If you do buy a 64Mb card then don't bother with a used one as it's unlikely to last: these cards have a limited number of read/write cycles and were often used heavily.
firstly don't use the card.
you will need a card reader for your computer There are many programs that can help you recover faulty formatted or corrupt memory cards. Do a search on google and try a few as some are better than others and some work better in certainsituations than others. searches to try memory card recovery memory card repair Corrupted Memory Card
I wish you the very best of luck.. If I can be of further help drop me a line
this is also my first posting, and I am having a simular problem with the same camera type. When I place the card in the camera, I get the No Card message. When I use the card in a multicard reader I can view all the images. Since the camera is not detecting a card, i can not attempt to format it
The panorama feature cannot be copied, it is 'firmware' of sorts that is integrated into the card itself. Olympus does offer several types of 'special' firmware in their branded SmartMedia cards (I believe there was a special one for printing T-Shirts and Mugs and the like....don't recall exactly, but did have a special supplement when I bought my C-1400XL).
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