Flash drive problem

Retromatic · 2 Oct 2010 at 14:22

Hi, not sure if anyone can help but I'm having a problem viewing photo's on a friends 8gb Kodak SD card. Basically the card shows as having 0 bytes available and 0 bytes free, when clicked on it just gives the option to format.

I have tried the card, in a laptops in-built card viewer and also by plugging in the camera (which works fine) but both have the same results. I have also tried plugging in the camera in my Windows 7 pc but get the same.

I've tried several other SD cards which all show their data no problem.

Anything I can try, or has the disk had it?

Robdata · 3 Oct 2010 at 17:52

if you cant see the photos anyway I would format the stick and try again before skipping it

alex24 · 3 Oct 2010 at 17:56

Is it a SDHC card and can the card readers read those?

Ignore the advice to format it if you want the pictures back, that could lose them forever!

Look up a program called getdataback by runtime software. You can run this on the card in the PC, and if it's just a corrupt card (and not borked hardware) you can usually get most of the data back from the card itself. That program has worked for me on SD cards many times when this happens. Make sure you get the FAT version btw.

Retromatic · 3 Oct 2010 at 17:59

alexhull24 said:
Is it a SDHC card and can the card readers read those?

Ignore the advice to format it if you want the pictures back, that could lose them forever!

Look up a program called getdataback by runtime software. You can run this on the card in the PC, and if it's just a corrupt card (and not borked hardware) you can usually get most of the data back from the card itself. That program has worked for me on SD cards many times when this happens. Make sure you get the FAT version btw.

Oddly it doesn't say SDHC on the card? I do have some SDHC card though and they all say it, so I'm guessing this isn't. Thanks for the advice on the program, I will take a look