Important safety tip.

[acroyear]

Never, Never, Never stick any memory stick, SD card, MMC card, whatever, ANYTHING except a read-only (and fully backed up) CDROM into one of those "photo kiosks" at Kinkos or Costco or any photo shop. Never!

The Sony kiosk @ the Kinkos in Sterling utterly destroyed my SD card (its unreadable by every device I have access to, including using a sandisk recovery tool). That card had my ONLY copies of every single picture I took of the Pacific NW tour. They're all GONE.

The only chance I have is to actually mail the card to the people who built the recovery software, because they may have better drivers and card readers that might be able to see through the damage. That will cost me $75 if successful, or $10 if not.

Naturally, I'll bill that to Sony, along with the replacement card costs.

Of course, I'll charge Sony the $80 best buy price, but buy the card @ costco for $50. I ain't THAT crazy...

*sigh*

Comments

[cyberkender.livejournal.com]

My boss has a program that he says works amazingly well on recovering memory cards. I'm trying to get the name of it for you.

well, it depends...

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

on how dependent on the card's driver it is. the 6-in-1 I have on my XP box at home? The whole driver crashes, taking all 4 "disks" with it when I try to stick it in there. (hey, this is progress. I was in shock it didn't take XP out with it).

I do have one that's only SD/MMC for use @ work that might be more stable.

Re: well, it depends...

[cyberkender.livejournal.com]

I don't think it cares about the driver, as long as it can read the card...