Digital camera accessories

[shiv21]

Hello everyone  

I am in desperate need of help so please please reply if you have any idea how to solve my problem.

I have a kodak digital camera and have an SD Fujifilm 256mb card for it.  It can hold up to (roughly) 150 images.  

The problem is, I was recently on holiday and when I took the last photo....instead of getting a message saying "memory card full, delete images" (or something similar) - I got a message saying "memory card requires formatting". The only options I am given is to continue (which will format the card and delete all my holiday pics!) or cancel. But when I cancel, it does not let me view any of my images. When I hook it up to my pc....it is not reading the memory card, it is saying there are no images.

It seems like a loose-loose situation as I dont want to format the card and loose all my photos, but I cant view my images or transfer them onto my computer anyway.

Then there was hope, I found programs online which claim to recover deleted images from memory cards by using a card reader hooked up to the computer. So I go out and buy a card reader and download many programs to try. Unfortunately, the card reader does not even detect my memory card, it acts like there is nothing there. However, when I tried another memory card...it worked fine and the software recovered some deleted photos.

So, the main problem is this single memory card. All I want is my holiday photographs.  Can anyone help??? I had a thought....perhaps format the memory card anyway and then use one of the recovery programs to recover them....but Im not sure if it would work and i dont want to risk it.

Please, please help if you can! Thank you x

[Mike54]

Hello Shiv21 and welcome to the Q&A Board. Have you tried using a card reader (assuming you're attaching the camera to the PC)? If so and you're still having an issue I suggest browsing through the Accessories forum. There are numerous threads running there with very similar issues and recommendations.

[shiv21]

Hi there,

Thanks for your reply. Yes I do have a card reader. I didnt need one before as my camera connects to the computer through a USB port but I needed the card reader to try the "recovery" software.  The card reader works for other memory cards I have, but the one I am having issues with - it isn't reading it at all...its not noticing that there is a card in the reader.

I will re-post my message in accessories, thanks for your help!

x