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   From: jarda47133@spambob.net   
      
   Anthony.Youngman@eca-international.com wrote:   
      
   > On Oct 9, 1:34 pm, Daniel James    
   > wrote:   
   >> My digital camera is reporting a corrupt memory card. Most of the   
   >> recent pictures seem to have vanished but it reports a couple of   
   >> files as "unrecognized image". I suspect that the image files   
   >> (Canon .cr2 RAW files) are intact but that the directory or FAT has   
   >> been partly trashed.   
   >>   
   >> This is a 4GB CF card with a FAT filesystem.   
   >>   
   >> I've little or no experience of file recovery tools that work on   
   >> memory cards. Is there anything in Portage that I can use to   
   >> recover the files? If not, what would people recommend?   
   >>   
   > Other people will have to advise you HOW to do this, but first   
   > things first - grab an image of the card using dd. This will grab   
   > everything - files, FAT, corruption, everything on the card. Burn   
   > that to DVD!   
   >    
   > You can now guarantee that, even if everything goes tits-up, you can   
   > restore the card to its pre-I-messed-it-up state.   
   >    
   > Next step. See if you can mount that image as a fat file system and   
   > run some form of scandisk/chkdsk/fsck over it. Hopefully you'll end   
   > up with a load of recovered files. If so, you're laughing.   
   >    
   > If not, you're looking at fixing the corruption with a hex editor.   
   > Best of luck :-)   
   >    
   > Cheers,   
   > Wol   
      
   Even better: I think photorec should be able to work with the card's   
   image. Something like photorec card.img   
      
   Jarda   
      
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