Lost Photo's on a Compact Flash Card

[Ripper]

HELP!

I have a large number of photos on a 128 MB from Christmas and the new year. I had taken the card out of my camera and put the CF into a USB card reader on a PC and the photos were easily viewed on the PC however, suddenly the PC froze and the card was removed. Now the Photos are not found on the card. There is however 96 MB used on the card. The CF was placed back in the camera and the card still works but the original pictures are missing.

Question - Are the photos recoverable?

[Funkstar]

possibly. what brand of card is it? some manufacturers have recovery software for their own cards.

[da_ging]

should be recoverable I've just recovered some photo's off an sd card that my gran accidentally deleted

i used ontracks easy recovery but there should be something freeware that can do it aswell

just found this freeware 1 (edit linked to wrong 1 first time)
http://www.pcinspector.de/smart_medi...uk/welcome.htm

and have just tried this 1 and it works

[fuddam]

Lexar Pro cards come with cool recovery software. is goodly stuff

[peterb]

http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/ might be worth looking at.

[Ripper]

Thanks for the links people - I shall have a look and give them ago - Fingers crossed

Thanks

[autopilot]

have a look on www.downloads.com, loads of stuff on there for this.

[Ripper]

well I had ago with the free inspector software linked above and this found one of the photos but even after it repaired it and put it onto the PC it still would not open! have not tried any other of the apps yet will do when i have more time. Think the cards a gonner though

[da_ging]

if you used the software i linked to you will probably need to tick intensive mode option in the file>settings for the scanning instead of fast mode as i had to or else the files it recovered would not open

[ultim8um]

www.photosrecovery.com
http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/purchase.htm
Have tried the second one and it worked fine for me...