Digital Nightmare

[donovan_tesman]

Hello everyone,

I know this is not the correct section to post under for a question like this but I cannot find the right place to post.

I recently was taking photos of my brothers graduation on my 2.2 GB Magicstor drive when the camera locked up and came up with a card error. I tried downloading the photos from the camera directly to the computer as well as downloading them through the card reader but neither will recognize the media card. I know there are recovery sevices around but I cannot find any that are in my price range and that will help. Does anyone know of any reliable recovery services that I can use to recover these photos?

Once I get these recovered I will be sure never to use a Magicstor drive again. I have seen problems like this on other forums with Magicstor drives so once this has been resolved I am going back to Hitachi.

Thanks

[bobtrips]

Try doing a search on the Storage and Media forum at http://www.dpreview.com.

[donovan_tesman]

Thank you for the information. I have come across that forum in the past but could not remeber the name of the website. I did find some useful information on the site, mainly how to prevent it from happening again which will help in the future but not with the images already lost. I think I am about to throw in the towel. If anyone has any future suggestions on how to recover these photos please reply.

Thank you.

[jim_panzee]

Don't know if this will help, but try posting a thread on this web site forum, http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk maybe someone there can help you with this, there are some pretty knowledgeable guys there.
Jim.

[stanmore]

Photo Recovery by LC Technology has saved 512MB CF cards of raw's for me on two occasions ... http://www.lc-tech.com . Maybe it will help you.