In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
David W.E. Roberts wrote:

Hi,

Googling etc. as usual but I thought perhaps someone on this NG had
already "done it themself".

I have a digital camrea with compact flash cards.

Normally I read these using a PCMCIA adapter for the portable or a
Lexar Jumpshot USB adapter for the bigger boxes.

One card failed to work in the camera.

I checked it using the Lexar and the card seems to be corrupt, but
there is still data on there - about 2Mb on a 16Mb card.

'chkdsk' under Win2K and WinXP can't fix it.

'fsck' under Debian Linux (Knoppix 3.4) can't fix it either.

Anyone know of a good (free if possible) disc fixer which might be
able to recover the data?

Scrabbling desperately to stay within the NG remit, I suppose I could
send it off to a data recovery outfit but I would prefer to Do It
Myself :-)

TIA

Dave R

You may have already answered this - but just to make sure . . .

Can you see any pictures on it when you put it in the camera - even if you
can't store any further pictures on it? If not, it's probably completely
b*****ed - and won't do anything until re-formatted, which will - of couse -
result in the loss of any data on it.

If the camera *can* see the data, do you have a method of connecting the
camera to one of your computers, to download it that way?
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