At 11.54 2005.05.18 +1000, you wrote:
>PICers
>I have a dead compact flash card and was wondering if it's possible to extract
>the remaining pictures out of it somehow? It's probably close to full and I
>think what happened was the voltage dropped out just when the camera was
>writing to it.
>
>It's a little square thing ~1 inch on a side that fits into a compact flash
>adaptor. 4MB, "Compact Flash" followed by "Simple Technology" brand name.
>
>I figured maybe you could bit bang whatever data's in it then try to assemble
>it into a set of images. Somehow. Sound feasible? Or is it a case of RIP? :(
>
>Debbie

It's like a IDE hard drive. Get an adapter for your PC, then use the software
"Easyrecovery Professional" from OnTrack, or similar (there are demos or
freeware similar software maybe). Another one was "Tiramisu", that maybe is
now free.

For such adapters:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41994&item=6767526980&rd=1

They're better than USB ones because they allow to see the CF as a IDE drive
directly, and thus you can use DOS programs, etc.. like if they were a normal
hard disk (I even installed an OS on one :) ).

 

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