SD Card Unreadable
A friend had a problem with the SD card in their Nikon camera. It has 100+ photos from their once in a lifetime vacation. Nothing out of the ordinary was done with the camera. I have tried to read ...
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robsouth wrote:Bumpyroad wrote:
I got into a semi-heated debate in a photography forum when I suggested instead of using a 64-32 whatever card on a vacation trip, split the days between two or more lesser cards so if one goes South you still have half your pictures.
bumpy
The old "all your eggs in one basket" theory. A good one if you ask me, but then you didn't so it's just my opinion (and bumpy's)
X2!
Another way to handle it is to offload a copy your Pix to your PC (laptop or what every you have handy) every few days. This gives you some redundancy and a chance that at least one of your devices will have most of your files..
SD cards like any "flash" memory can and will go bad or get corrupted, had a USB thumb drive the other day and I lost EVERYTHING, two computers asked to format the drive.. Fortunately it did not have irreplaceable files due to my redundancy of keeping copies elsewhere..
Proper care goes a long way in preventing corruption. Folks drive me crazy when they simply pull USB drives out of the port WITHOUT using the REMOVE Hardware tool BEFORE removing the drive.. Win 7 and Win8 quietly HID this tool and folks ASSUMED it is no longer needed. It IS still there and it IS STILL REQUIRED if you don't wish to take chances of corrupting your flash drive.. Unhide the Remove hardware tool and use it..
For SD cards, folks often remove the cards while the camera is ON or STILL WRITING to the card. One MUST POWER DOWN THE CAMERA before removing a SD card. Failure to ensure camera is off before removing the card will result in corrupted files.
Additionally battery failure during a camera write cycle can cause corruption.. Make sure you are not running the edge of the battery giving out..
Baring all that some SD cards are just junk, had several good name brand SD cards bought at a "closeout discounter" which has given me fits with random file errors in my HD camcorder..
By the way, a real good "utility" I found a few years ago is called UNDELETE360. I was able to retrieve over 200 photos on a SD card when a relatives camera decided to format the card when it was powered on..
The trick there is once a card has been accidentally formated or files have been deleted you must not add any new files..
