Friday, June 01, 2007
CF card Failure and recovery
Today my CF card crapped out on me. I've been getting a "CHA" error message on my camera and kind of ignoring it by pushing the CF card in a little on my D70s. Worked up until today. I shot a bunch of photos with no error message, but when I got home and tried to pull them off the card in my usual way it didn't even mount to the desktop. Disk Utility could sort of see it, but it refused to mount it or repair it.
Found out the following by googling, asking metafilter, and searching the D70s groups on Flickr. I'm blogging about it because I want to remember it next time it happens.
- Seems that the CHA error occurs because of overuse of the "trash can" icon on the camera itself. Somehow that method of deleting the photos seems to f-ck up the card. It's better to delete the photos from the card by using the camera's "Format" option.
- I bit the bullet and reformatted the card. Lo and behold, it mounted to the desktop, seemingly repaired. But empty.
- searched for some Mac CF card recovery program and found CardRaider by ECamm Network. Ran the demo and it found my missing photos. Purchased the software (only $20--a bargain!).
- Recovered all RAW files perfectly.
- Yay.
Seriously, though I'm ecstatic! I know these were just snaps of my kids, but what if it had been something really important. No doubt I would have cried about it.
Found out the following by googling, asking metafilter, and searching the D70s groups on Flickr. I'm blogging about it because I want to remember it next time it happens.
- Seems that the CHA error occurs because of overuse of the "trash can" icon on the camera itself. Somehow that method of deleting the photos seems to f-ck up the card. It's better to delete the photos from the card by using the camera's "Format" option.
- I bit the bullet and reformatted the card. Lo and behold, it mounted to the desktop, seemingly repaired. But empty.
- searched for some Mac CF card recovery program and found CardRaider by ECamm Network. Ran the demo and it found my missing photos. Purchased the software (only $20--a bargain!).
- Recovered all RAW files perfectly.
- Yay.
Seriously, though I'm ecstatic! I know these were just snaps of my kids, but what if it had been something really important. No doubt I would have cried about it.
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