Chuck and everyone else:
Thanks you all for the advice.
The upside is that I formatted a 2GB CF card with 25 RAW images on board.
The following day we went and retraced our steps and gathered a better set
of replacements than had been lost ...... more pleasing lighting, etc, etc.
It would have been disappointing otherwise; the Iles De La Madeleine in the
Gulf of St Lawrence is / are not an everyday easy destination.
I will definitely look into the recovery software and heed the advice about
not writing anything further to the card until the images are recovered.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 8:45 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: de-activating "format" on my E500
> Do not (under any circumsances) do anything that will write something to
> the card. If all you did was format the card your images are still
> there. If you didn't do any in-camera deleting they should all be
> recoverable although probably not with their original names. If you did
> do in-camera deletions many will be recoverable but some will be partial
> or lost.
>
> I recently had R-Studio recommended to me by a guy who has been using
> recovery utilities for over 20 years. He says this one is the best he's
> ever seen. It completely recovered a disk he thought was pure toast.
> But, YMMV. <http://www.r-studio.com/>
>
> Note that this comes in many versions. The only thing you really need
> for a CF card is FAT support if the card is 2GB or less or FAT32 support
> if greater than 2GB. Both of those are in the "FAT 4.0" product.
> Apparently, you can download the demo version and let it tell you what
> it found. If you like what it finds (or think it finds) you can pay for
> the product and get it to do the actual restore.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Richard Ociepka wrote:
>> John, try Digital Image Recovery.
>> http://users.adelphia.net/~ociepka/DigitalImageRecovery.exe
>>
>> Dick
>>
>> John Hudson wrote:
>>> Don't you just hate discovering that you have mistakenly formatted your
>>> in-camera image card and have to redo your photos !
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