17 Nov
2011
17 Nov
'11
8:39 a.m.
On Nov 17, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Mark Tapley wrote:
All,
I have a 128 MB Smart Media card from my camera which I
inadvertently formatted, erasing a whole pile of really good photos
from Yellowstone Park, in mid-June 2009. It recently re-surfaced in
my pile of things to do.
1) Is there any hope at all that the original images are recoverable?
2) Any recommendations on where to go to get that done?
OT-ness is that it applies to a (now) 10-year-old camera,
which is a pretty tenuous thread. However, I think I dimly recall a
discussion on this topic here recently, so if anyone can help me,
please do! Private email is fine, if the topic is not deemed of
general interest.
I guess it's possible... does SmartMedia format as FAT[12|16|32]? A lot of DOS
"unerase" programs might do the trick if the camera just blows away the header
blocks of the filesystem; often times the directories are left more or less intact.
Probably a good idea to make a backup image of the card before you do any experiments,
though. If you have access to a UNIX-y machine that can access the card, dd should do the
job. I don't know what to use on Windows.
- Dave