Recover pictures from flash memory cards

After snooping around in the nether regions of Google search results, Howie and I found Digital Image Recovery for free at http://www.gratilog.net/fichier1.htm .

This program lets you recover pictures from a formatted card, too. All formatting does is mark the card as available for data; it doesn't erase anything permanently. As long as you have not recorded new data on the card, there's a good chance you can recover your images. Cool, huh?

Get it while you can, for it is now pulled off of 99% of the sites which used to link to it because the developer made it commercial. This freeware version says right in it that you are free to distribute it, so I'm letting you all know! Any site which links to "home.arcor.de/christian_grau/dir/" is linking to the old, pulled site.

There are several program which can be tried for free, then purchased if you want to save the recoverable images. One is PhotoRescue at http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/support.htm and another is PhotoRecovery at http://www.filerecovery.com/Photorecovery.htm

Incidently, I don't think the problem was a card failure; I believe what caused the error was the batteries running out in the middle of some group pictures. I didn't stop and change them when the camera began flashing its warning. True, that would have been the sensible thing to do, but there were eight people shifting on their feet and wanting it to be done, LOL.

I shot a full card again after recovering the other pictures and reformatting the card in the camera and all seems well. Whew!