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I'm a wedding photographer and at my last wedding took some of what I call my best work, got home started to upload them like usually and four out of my nine cards had corrupt. I managed to plug one in and get some of but three of them no luck any ideas anyone they are sandisk so expect high quality Im so upset and don't know what to do

Mel xx
 
Sandisk guarantee their cards for about 10 years I believe
you should have a rescue disk with the cards if they are genuine.
I had a problem with one many moons ago,
I phoned them and the card was replaced.
they even sent me a copy of their "industrial use" recovery disk.
Give them a ring, they are more than helpful :thumbs:
Sorry can't remember the number but I am sure Google will know it.
 
As above. I've used 'recuva' as well in the past when I've deleted photos accidentally, and Sandisk's 'Rescue Pro' as well! Keep us updated, hopefully it'll all be well :thumbs:

P.S. Welcome to TP :wave:
 
yea it cpuld be a free download now, as they only give you a years free..you would have had a leaflet in the box with a code on and a webpage
 
4 out of 9 cards in a single day?

MUCH more likely it's your card reader.

Try another one. In fact, if you haven't already then plug your camera into your computer and try that.
 
^ Yes Four cards failing on the same day is most unlikely.
 
Might not be the cards, might be the camera?
 
Thanks guys

Tried the just pluggin the camera in still no luck, will try recuva and let you all know fingers crossed not building to much hope stressing me out a little as it some of my favorite work I have done

Mel xx
 
Also sending my camera off its only two months old and its a canon 5d mark 2 so really hope It's fixable

Mel x
 
There are professional companies such as Datatrack Labs who specialise in data recovery. They will be able to give you an idea of how much it will cost to recover the data. Your insurance company may well cover the cost. Contact them if you haven't already. They may have a prefered company.
 
It depends on what exactly is corrupted on the card. If it's the directory and FAT then it may be possible to get something back. If the camera is writing corrupt data or not controlling the card properly then it might not.
 
Melfrphotography said:
Also sending my camera off its only two months old and its a canon 5d mark 2 so really hope It's fixable

Mel x
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If it is only 2 months old and it is the camera you should get a new one I would have thought?? seems like the camera if the cards do not work through camera to pc/mac??

Hope you manage to save some of the photos off the corrupt cards :|
 
seashaker said:
If it is only 2 months old and it is the camera you should get a new one I would have thought??
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Yeah but that would be the least of my worries right now. 4 cards gone from a wedding I wouldn't care if it was my best work or filler. It's 4 cards from a wedding.

1. Isolate the problem - is it the card, the reader, the software, the cable, the computer, the camera, solar flares, what?

2. Based on 1 your data may or may not be recoverable - personally I'd run every piece of recovery s/w I could find one after another on different computers. Sometimes recovery on a PC will work better than on a Mac (and vice versa)

3. Based on whose "fault" it was identified in step 1 go and give them a kicking and get kit swapped.

There are problems you can hit with cards that make the unrecoverable but I'll repeat it's very very unlikely to hit 4 at once. Even if it's a bad batch of fake cards that seems odd if they didn't report write errors.

I've also never heard of a camera fault that could pass unnoticed all day but corrupt 4 out of 9 cards. Either it would start flashing errors or corrupt all cards or it would just be an odd file. I'm only guessing but it doesn't seem to fit a camera error -which would generally mean the data is there.
 
JonathanRyan said:
Yeah but that would be the least of my worries right now. 4 cards gone from a wedding I wouldn't care if it was my best work or filler. It's 4 cards from a wedding.

1. Isolate the problem - is it the card, the reader, the software, the cable, the computer, the camera, solar flares, what?

2. Based on 1 your data may or may not be recoverable - personally I'd run every piece of recovery s/w I could find one after another on different computers. Sometimes recovery on a PC will work better than on a Mac (and vice versa)

3. Based on whose "fault" it was identified in step 1 go and give them a kicking and get kit swapped.

There are problems you can hit with cards that make the unrecoverable but I'll repeat it's very very unlikely to hit 4 at once. Even if it's a bad batch of fake cards that seems odd if they didn't report write errors.

I've also never heard of a camera fault that could pass unnoticed all day but corrupt 4 out of 9 cards. Either it would start flashing errors or corrupt all cards or it would just be an odd file. I'm only guessing but it doesn't seem to fit a camera error -which would generally mean the data is there.
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It could be an error on the last 4 cards, if a pin or something broke it might not write properly after the fault developed.
 
The chances of 4 cards being corrupt simultaneously are IMHO miniscule. Are they genuine branded cards ?

Either they're not being read correctly (possible reader issue) or they're not being written to correctly. If it's the latter then your chances of recovery are fairly remote.

There is a very good article about card failure in this months Pro Photo magazine by a Sandisk technical manager, with an addendum about data recovery by a company called datatrack labs.

http://www.datatrack-labs.co.uk/
 
Jerm said:
The chances of 4 cards being corrupt simultaneously are IMHO miniscule. Are they genuine branded cards ?
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It does seem very unlikely. I thought I'd had two go following a wedding in August but fortunately it turned out to be a faulty reader
 
I had a similar problem once - over a hundred shots vanished from a Sandisk card. It was caused by reviewing them too quickly in the camera (i.e. shuttling through too fast and damaging the directory). RescuePro recovered all of them on a PC equipped with an internal card reader - it took several hours but it worked.

Mel - if you don't have RescuePro, I've got a legitimate unused license key you can have. Just PM me and I'll send it over - then you can download the programme and license it with the key.

PS. As other have said though - the first thing to try is one of the cards in a different card reader, preferably on a different PC.
 
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