recovering data from mem stick

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Vern

Hi.

Two on photograph management:

A memory stick in a Cannon digital camera was
accidentally "formatted." It's not clear whether it's
been overwritten or not. Norton "unerase" has worked well
for me on other media, but doesn't "see" the card reader
(only picks up HDD and Zip drive).

It's not worth spending serious money for "state of
science" recovery operations (family vacation pix; sad but
not disastrous), but it would be worth a time expenditure
on my part.

Can anybody aim me at an XP or other resource on this?: XP
reads the card fine.

Other issue/question: uploading other pix from the stick
to HDD was smooth, if a little slow. But when I tried to
print one, my whole machine went "muddy" on me -- I mean
it seemed suddenly incapable of "multi-tasking." It
ultimately did not print the request because I cancelled
out of the wizard to get use of my machine back.

Why didn't the system just print the picture like any
other image file? The XP pic & fax viewer worked fine
with these images, and I have never had any trouble just
using the "print" command for an image file (though,
admittedly, I've never tried printing an image at "photo-
quality).

Basics: fast and large HDD; P4@2gig: XP Pro on a 9.3 gig
partition, brand new and updated, recently converted
partition to ntfs; w98 available on another partition.

Thanks for any help or leads.
 
Vern said:
Hi.

Two on photograph management:

A memory stick in a Cannon digital camera was
accidentally "formatted." It's not clear whether it's
been overwritten or not. Norton "unerase" has worked well
for me on other media, but doesn't "see" the card reader
(only picks up HDD and Zip drive).
Click to expand...

Try this: http://63.141.194.5/dir/index.html

"Digital Image Recovery" claims to be able to recover the contents of
a CF card, even if you've reformatted it. It used to be freeware,
unfortunately it no longer is. Maybe it's cheap enough for your
budget?
Other issue/question: uploading other pix from the stick
to HDD was smooth, if a little slow. But when I tried to
print one, my whole machine went "muddy" on me -- I mean
it seemed suddenly incapable of "multi-tasking."
Click to expand...

Don't know. If you were trying to print an image residing on the CF
card, it might have something to do with the slowness of the card -
especially if you are using a USB1.1 connection to read from the card.
If the image you're trying to print resides on the hard disk, I'm
stumped.
 
Thanks for the reference on recovery.

On the other issue, no, I had already uploaded the pix to
my hard drive and was trying to print them from there.
 
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