My camcorder must have overrun the card capacity and made a mess or perhaps run out of battery. I've done this before and the card has always been readable. This time though, it doesn't show up in windows.

If I put the card in my phone, the built-in file manager shows that the files are obviously there.

I've tried testdisk/photorec with no luck. Any other free suggestions?

10/16/2011 4:20:45 PM

Mount the card in your phone as USB storage perhaps?

10/16/2011 4:45:07 PM

What caused the problem is unclear to me. Did you run out of battery in the middle of recording or what?

Did you run out of space?

Try recording for 2 seconds and stop recording. This should write information to the tables, if there are tables.



[Edited on October 16, 2011 at 4:57 PM. Reason : .]

10/16/2011 4:54:16 PM

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

10/16/2011 5:43:04 PM

^

10/16/2011 5:55:30 PM

That software doesn't work if it can't find the filesystem. I've tried about a dozen pieces of software. My old standards run off a boot cd, so they can't work with usb thumbdrives.

The fat tables can't be damaged that badly since my phone uses them just fine.

Trying ZAR now.

10/16/2011 6:21:04 PM

ZAR didn't work.

But I fixed it another way.

10/17/2011 1:53:00 PM