Recovering pictures from defective SD memory card

[MJA]

is it possible to recover any lost pictures from a currapt 2GB SD card (PQI)and if it is, which are the best programs for this job.

my sister is going to mail the card soon so I can check it out

[minidv2dvd]

first i'd try one of the free programs like freeundelete, but if it can't recover anything you might need to purchase one of the more powerful ones. here's a comparison.
http://data-recovery-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

i've used recovermyfiles and it is fairly good, but if the card is truly dead and can't be accessed you may be out of luck with any program.

[RabidDog]

SD cards are VERY robust.. You can fire them out of a cannon and they still work. Its more likely that something has corrupted the filesystem so your pics should still be there.

[MJA]

I hope you are right.she took tons of pictures on her over seas trip

she didn't ship the card yet. ,but I have the software ready (Recover My Files )

[stiltman]

SD cards are VERY robust.. You can fire them out of a cannon and they still work.

Yeah, but they can NOT be run over by 100s of cars

Wife left elf camera on top of car, I drove off. I spent 4 hours searching for camera
Next day I found the camera in a million pieces
I found the card, but it had a VERY small indentation in it
Still have the card, but still can not get the picts off of it

[MJA]

SD cards are VERY robust.. You can fire them out of a cannon and they still work.

Yeah, but they can NOT be run over by 100s of cars

Wife left elf camera on top of car, I drove off. I spent 4 hours searching for camera
Next day I found the camera in a million pieces
I found the card, but it had a VERY small indentation in it
Still have the card, but still can not get the picts off of it

in your case it's a physical damage.I hope I don't have the same issue.she said only error msg

[Bodyslide]

This one is free also...

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/digital-image-recovery.htm

Here is an older freeware Product I have used to recover damaged cards. Not very fancy, but if a card reader can see the card it can recover the majority of images. Good Luck
Zipped by Me and scanned with NAV.

http://www.mindspring.com/~bodyslide/Sounds/DIR.zip

[MJA]

finally

I received the card yesterday ,and used both programs.DIR from bodyslide is faster than Recover My Files($59) both recovered the same amount of pictures (over 800). few of the pictures are messed up .thank you guys for the help.

recovered_jpeg%20digital%20camera_153.jpg

[stiltman]

Glad you got the picts!

BTW, I think the best program IMO in Restorer2000
It's only let me down once.....aka 100s of cars

[MJA]

learned one thing .never buy a cheap memory card. my PC and laptop recognized only 950MB from the 2GB .it's not ever worth sending back to PQI for replacement

[Bodyslide]

Glad the DIR helped you out...