Compact Flash Card Question

[justshepherds]

Hi....
I've been using a 1GB Lexar Compact Flash card with my Nikon D70 for over a year. Suddenly, when I try to read the card with my computer using a card reader or printer, the computer gives an error message telling me that I must "format the card" before I can use it in the drive. Then, when I put the card back into my camera to look at the photos, they do not appear anymore in normal playback mode. I thought that I had lost them until I tried playing them back in the camera with the camera's slideshow option. Waaa-laaaa....the photos are still there.

Does anyone have any suggestions or experience with this? What do I do in order to retrieve my photos on this card? Is it a camera error or is it time for a new card or ?????

Thanks for any help!

 

[Steph]

I cannot really help you because I don't know how to solve the problem but I have a suggestion: have you tried to recover the pictures by connecting your camera directly to the computer? If that fails, there are software to recover data from memory cards. Google should be a good start (maybe Google something like CF data recovery). I believe there are also some freeware around. Once you have retrieved your pictures from the card, try to format it with the camera to see if that solves your problems.

 

[modlife]

Google "Lexar Image Rescue" it's free software for image recovery

Then format the card in camera and start fresh