Memory card help. IT / Camera/ phone boffs time to shine!

[theeaglehunter]

Right, as I know we have a lot of very knowledgeable guys / girls on here I thought I would post this plea for help, in a last ditch attempt to save the 5 gb worth of pictures, files etc that were stored on my micro sd card.

Whilst they are no work of art pictures, and were never of great quality being taken with a Nokia N95, a lot have sentimental value and are my only way of remembering particularly enjoyable events.

Basically I removed the card whilst it was 'unsafe' to do so (I was somewhat intoxicated at the time ) and it is now showing as corrupt regardless of the device I put it in: different phone, digital camera, PC via cad reader etc.

Are my files / photos consigned to a digital graveyard, or is there any way I might be able to retrieve them?

All advice appreciated, all possibilities attempted!

Thanks in advance.

 

[CliveW]

Take a couple of pictures outside a local school and playground, wait for the police to arrive and I'm sure they will be able to recover the pictures for you.

(Only joking!)

 

[brendy]

TEH, Im going to say virtually no chance of getting them back. There are forensic data recovery companies out there but the way most of them work is no recovery, no fee. 1 byte of data back and its thousands.

 

[Fyldewhite]

You may have already tried a few things but just googled this problem and this looks hopeful:
http://www.berryreview.com/2009/01/08/tips-tricks-recover-files-from-a-corrupted-sd-or-microsd-card/

Good luck. In a previous job I was backup and recovery manager for a large government account and have seen the pain of data loss first hand.... and £20,000 bills for specialist firms to recover a server etc. Anyone reading this please take note and backup your data regularly. It's horrible when you lose it all for the sake of a few minutes copying files once in a while.

 

[theeaglehunter]

Cheers for the advice guys, that made me smile about it at least Clive- Nice one! Fyldewhite I'll have a look at the link you posted, thanks a lot, but from what Brendy has said I'm pretty resigned to the fact they are lost Ah well!