Lost data recovery?

[ThePro]

So my G1WH went nuts, probably due to a bad microsd. I waited for it to finish all the battery and plugged it back in and gave the card a format, as it was throwing memory errors.

It was all fine until I got home and all I saw was gibberish. I did the chkdsk f: /f but it just made the gibberish into one 32kb file.

I'm currently running Zero Assumption Recovery (ZAR), but I'm looking into any possibility. I did manage to get one file, but it was stuff from a few days back, so it's useless to me. I caught the craziest stuff today as well, a lady making me ABS to a stop, a chicken on the middle of the road and a Ford Explorer showing my little 1.8 engine who's boss.

Any tips?

Also, I'd like to mention that the same thing happened another time a few months back with the same cam + card combo (G1WH + Sandisk Ultra), I'm probably getting a Transcend 600x first thing tomorrow if it doesn't format after I get my data.

 

[Sunny]

Recuva will get complete files.
Corrupted files will take more effort.

 

[ThePro]

Doing Recuva, it's getting some files, about 3-4 clips before the cam went nuts, so hopefully I can get the one just before.

 

[xosevp]

TestDisk/PhotoRec for Linux, DOS, Windows and Mac OS X: http://www.cgsecurity.org/

 

[ThePro]

I managed to get some clips of just before the cam going nuts. I only lost one clip, which I couldn't get with any program, so I assume the card was already gone bad at that point

Thanks everyone!

 

[SawMaster]

I don't know if it's G1w specific, but it seems certain modes of cam failure can destroy cards. My G1Wc ruined a nearly new Transcend card when it failed as well as a second known good Samsung card I used for a diagnostic tool to see if it was the card or the cam which had failed. Got it sorted with a new cam but I'm still out the cards. Going to order some small cards for testing purposes in a few days to minimize my losses should this recur.

Phil

 

[ThePro]

Glad you've found your files back. Have you tried the two software i've suggested above ?

Share your feedback once you're done!!

Sadly I didn't. Both ZAR and Recuva didn't get that last clip, so I just assumed the card was already done for. Tried to do a few formats and the card is still alive to some degree, files do save, but big files (1gb+) get corrupted.

I don't know if it's G1w specific, but it seems certain modes of cam failure can destroy cards. My G1Wc ruined a nearly new Transcend card when it failed as well as a second known good Samsung card I used for a diagnostic tool to see if it was the card or the cam which had failed. Got it sorted with a new cam but I'm still out the cards. Going to order some small cards for testing purposes in a few days to minimize my losses should this recur.

Phil

That's interesting, the camera had gone on limp mode right before the card had died both times. That would be a fairly decent explanation for such high card failure rate.