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2GB Card gone

MArk Le

New member
I want to share my experience so others may prevent it.

the gear:
microtech firewire CF reader
2 GB Kingston Pro
images taken on Canon 1Ds
Windows XP pro SP2

what happened:

the card was almost full (5 or 6 shots left)
first windows didn't read the card. Reboot. Card reads fine after reboot.

I open a couple of files to see: all raw so ACR writes the settings in the card. This was a HUGE mistake because at the second picture opened the card went crazy. FAT was corrupted. all files appearing with all the possible characters , including the sub-directories (DCIM etc.)

To cut it short I did a recovery with PC Inspector and I was able to get half of the shooting back

Beside the fact that I believe the 1Ds itself do show issues with almost full cards the advice is this:

DO NOT OPEN FILES FROM THE CARD. Copy everything into the hard disk immediately and treat the card like it was read only.

don't repeat my mistake!
 

Josh Liechty

New member
That is good advice. Also, since flash media has a limited (although fairly high) number of write cycles, avoiding any excess activities that would cause the file allocation table to be overwritten is a good idea.
 
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