FAT card has files not listed in directory

[Rich Pasco]

My camera's memory card is linked as drive G: and has a FAT filesystem.
Due to an unknown error, the directory is missing, but the 42 image
files are still there, according to CHKDISK which reports that they are
there (see listing below). How can I reconstruct a directory to recover
the files?

- Rich

G:\>chkdsk g:
The type of the file system is FAT.
Volume OLYMPUS created 6/3/2006 1:55 PM
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

65,486,848 bytes total disk space.
16,384 bytes in 1 hidden files.
26,853,376 bytes in 42 files.
38,617,088 bytes available on disk.

16,384 bytes in each allocation unit.
3,997 total allocation units on disk.
2,357 allocation units available on disk.

G:\>dir g:
Volume in drive G is OLYMPUS
Volume Serial Number is 0000-0000

Directory of G:\

File Not Found

G:\>

 

[seth]

dir g: /a

what does that show?

 

[Rich Pasco]

Lo and behold, dir g: /a shows a hidden, system directory FOUND.000
containing most of the missing files. A few were corrupted but most
are intact. Thank you very much!

- Rich