Camera Drive Letter

[Guest]

I am trying to recover some digital photo's that were on a compact Flash card which i have accidentaly deleted

All the software recovery applications insist that the camera has a drive letter, but can't see how you do this. The camera is connected via USB and appears in My Computer under cameras and scanners

Please Advis

Thanks

 

[Tumbleweed]

I am trying to recover some digital photo's that were on a compact Flash

card which i have accidentaly deleted.

All the software recovery applications insist that the camera has a drive

letter, but can't see how you do this. The camera is connected via USB and
appears in My Computer under cameras and scanners

Please Advise

Thanks

Are you saying it doesnt have a drive letter? cameras tend to fall into two
sorts, one represents the memory as another drive in which case it will have
a drive letter. Others dont do that, and use their own software to xfer it,
so in this case the camera never looks like a drive. If you have the latter
sort, the recovery software wont (and cant) work, since it is expecting to
work on a bare memory card rather than deal with software on the PC and in
the camera..

Do you have a friend with a card reader? Or if you desperately need the pics
you can buy a reader for around $15 US

 

[Alex Nichol]

I am trying to recover some digital photo's that were on a compact Flash card which i have accidentaly deleted.

All the software recovery applications insist that the camera has a drive letter, but can't see how you do this. The camera is connected via USB and appears in My Computer under cameras and scanners

The systems own camera software (Windows Image Acquisition) is finding
the camera and displaying it as such: You want to see it for this
purpose as a drive. I *think* it will be seen that way if you go to
Control Panel - Admin Tools - Services (with the camera not yet plugged
in) and look for Windows Image Acquisition. Double click on it, click
on Stop, then set 'Startup type' to 'Disabled' and Apply. Reboot
without it in action, and plug in the camera. I think you will then
find it appears as if it were a removable drive, complete with letter.
Once you have done your work in this mode, set it back to Auto startup
and click Start - no need to reboot then