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Originally Posted by Steve
hopefully you should be able to recover the files?
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yes that's correct.
Any shots you take after the format overwrite individual images from the card but it's an effective lottery regarding which get overwritten. But if you don't write anything to the card after the format then recovery should be a doddle.
All this assumes, of course, the card isn't faulty
There is no format in windows these days that lets you low level format - wipe data. The only difference between quick and "normal" is the normal one does a disk check. Both of them simply rebuild the FAT/MFT - for NTFS drives*
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Originally Posted by inventory
Rebooting the computer with the card in a reader should start up the Windows CHKDisk utility. If this finds any problems with the file system which are making it unreadable in camera or on computer, this should sort them. Well, it works for me anyway  |
You shouldn't need to reboot. Stop the card reader then unplug it. Wait, plug it back in. Right click the memory card drive in explorer, select properties. Go to the tools tab and click the error check button. Tick both the boxes and start.
You only need to reboot when windows can't get exclusive access to the "drive" - I had to unplug as that closes any open file access on the drive.
* With NTFS small files are stored in the MFT so these would be lost in a format.