Data Recovery Forums - Help & Discussions

simobk · Joined: 24 Feb 2010 Posts: 2 Location: France

Hi all,

First of all, sorry if I am posting this in the wrong place, but I found no section for SD Card. I also tried to search the forum but the Search function on the forum pops a PHP syntax error.

Now to my problem, please take the time to read on before answering as I already tried lots of things.

It all started while filming on a SanDisk Ultra 32GB SD card. Out of nowhere, the camera showed the following message : "Memory card error, card locked". After that, the card was not even seen by the camera.

I tried it in different cameras, computers, card readers and operating systems (WinXP, Win7, MacOS and Linux) and on all those, the card was not even detected. I am not saying it shows up as unformatted or sthg, I'm saying it doesn't show at all, like nothing was inserted in the card reader.

Even though it didn't show, I tried to use data recovery software on Windows 7, without much hope, and as expected, got no results. I tried the following :

FULL VERSIONS :
- OnTrack Easy Recovery
- Runtime GetDataBack

DEMO/FREEWARE VERSIONS :
- DiskInternals Flash Recovery
- F-Recovery for SD
- DDR - NTFS Recovery
- Easy Recovery Professional
- PC Inspector File Recovery
- R-Studio
- Zero Assumption Recovery

I also attempted to boot directly into SpinRite with no success.

NONE of these programs could see the card, so I couldn't even start the recovery procedure!

There are EXTREMELY important pictures in this camera that were supposed to be exposed in a gallery. It was taken during a trip and were not copied to a computer yet. The only copies are on this card so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot,

Simo